Northwestern Oklahoma State University

Cynthia Garrett Rock played point guard for Northwestern for two and half seasons (1985-88). The Mustang native currently holds five Lady Ranger basketball records.
 
Rock, who owns the record for best three-point percentage in a season, led Northwestern and the NAIA during her senior year (1987-1988), while connecting on 54.8 percent (63-115) of her three-point attempts. The 1987-1988 season was the first year that the NAIA instituted a three-point line. That same season, she helped lead the Lady Rangers to Oklahoma Intercollegiate Co-Conference Champions with a 22-5 overall record on a team that contended for the No. 1 national ranking throughout the season.
 
She also is the assist record holder for a single game (12), season (184) and career (382) and holds the career record for best three-point percentage (54.8).  
 
In her three-year term, Rock played in 73 games while averaging 6.3 points per game.
 
During the 1987-88 basketball season, Rock was named to the NAIA District IX team and named the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year.
 
In 1987, Rock was honored with the Anna B. Fisher Biology Scholarship and Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Future Teacher Scholarship.
 
Rock graduated from Northwestern in December of 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in natural science.
 
Currently, she serves as the manager of the waste management operations department at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill.
 
Rock and husband Joseph, a 1989 graduate of Northwestern Oklahoma State, reside in Woodridge, Ill. They have two daughters, Anne and Katie.