Wake Forest, 1987
• 1985 Academic All-America® Third Team
• 1986 Academic All-America® First Team
• 1987 Academic All-America® First Team
Amy Privette Perko was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame in 2008.
Former Wake Forest basketball star and three-time Academic All-America honoree, Amy Privette-Perko is the first Wake Forest graduate to be inducted into the Academic All-American Hall of Fame. Privette-Perko’s achievements as a scholar-athlete made her a clear choice for such an award.
In addition to being selected as a three-time Academic All-American during her basketball career Privette-Perko was also a two-time All-ACC performer. Privette-Perko holds a Wake Forest facility record for her performance against Appalachian State in 1986, scoring 38 points. She also ranks among Wake’s top-ten players in points, rebounds, assists and steals. During her 1986-87 season she won Wake’s Female Athlete of the Year and was the recipient of the 1987 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. In 2000 she was inducted into the Wake Forest Hall of Fame. Her academic prowess continued to merge with her basketball stardom as she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, and as a William Louis Poteat scholar.
She utilized her NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship to earn a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Richmond. Upon graduating from Richmond, Privette-Perko worked for the NCAA for over six years and then at the University of Kansas as the Associate Athletics Director and Senior Woman Administrator. In 2001 she returned to her home-state of North Carolina to become the first Team President named by the National Basketball Association for the development team, the Fayetteville Patriots.
Privette-Perko later moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina where she was an active community member as part of the Board of Directors for the Partnership for Children of Cumberland County, which focuses on early childhood development and education and youth basketball. She worked as the Executive Director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an independent group of university presidents, trustees, faculty and former student athletes who advocate that athletics programs operate within the educational mission of their universities.