Kathy Booker

Kathy Booker Endowed Scholarship for Women’s Basketball

Kathy Booker was not an athlete, nor was she interested in sports until her children started playing. Yet, by the time her son and daughter were in high school, she read the newspaper—starting with the sports section. When Doug Bruno recruited her daughter Kris to play basketball at DePaul University, Kathy went to every game she could, decked out in Blue Demon fan gear. She truly cared about each of her daughter’s teammates, baking cookies and brownies for the players. From day one, the Athletic Department made the Bookers’ feel like part of the larger DePaul family—sharing victories and defeats, laughter and tears, good times and bad. Kathy passed away from gallbladder cancer on May 25, 2006, and the Booker family celebrates her memory through this scholarship.