Beth Cochran
| Personal information | |
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| Born | June 11, 1964 Hamiota Municipality, Manitoba, Canada |
| Career information | |
| High school | Hamiota Collegiate |
| College | University of Winnipeg (1982–1987) |
| Career history | |
| 1986-1987 | Canada women's national basketball team |
| Career highlights | |
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Alice Beth Cochran (born June 11, 1964) is a Canadian-American educator, educational consultant, and former basketball player. She played for the Winnipeg Wesmen from 1982 to 1987 and served as team captain from 1985 to 1987. Cochran was selected as a Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union All-Canadian every year of her collegiate career, and led the Winnipeg Wesmen to four national championship tournaments. She was the Great Plains Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1984, 1986, and 1987. Cochran holds the women's records for leading scorer and leading in career rebounds at the University of Winnipeg. She joined the Canada women's national basketball team and won bronze medals at the 1986 FIBA World Championship for Women and at the 1987 Pan American Games. In 1996, Cochran was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
Cochran is the senior director of magnet and curriculum enhancement programs for the Wake County Public School System and previously served as the principal at John W. Ligon Magnet Middle School and William G. Enloe Magnet High School in Raleigh, North Carolina.