Career
Ruley has the greatest number of victories of any women"s coach at NDSU, with over 600 wins, and has led the Bison to 5 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II championships. She was inducted into the Women"s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. On Monday, March 3, 2008, Ruley announced that she would step down as coach after the game that evening against Centenary College (Louisiana) and remain at NDSU as an associate athletic director with responsibilities directed towards fundraising for the athletic department.
In 1995, Ruley served as the assistant coach to the R. William Jones Cup Team.
The competition was held in Taipei, Taiwan. Their seventh game was against Russia, and they fell 100–84.