Patricia Mickan

Patricia "Pat" Mickan (born 12 March 1957) is an Australian former basketball player.

Patricia Mickan
Personal information
Born (1957-03-12) 12 March 1957[1]
Renmark, South Australia
Sport
Country Australia
SportWomen's basketball

Biography

Mickan played 150 games for the national team between 1979 and 1989, competing at two Olympic Games; 1984 and 1988.[1][2] Mickan described her Olympic memories; "I have goose bumps when thinking about it, it's just a very rare and precious experience".[3] Mickan also represented Australia at three World Championships - 1979, 1983 and 1986.[4]

Following her retirement, Mickan went on to become a successful state senior netball and basketball coach.[2] Breaking the barrier for women in sport, Mickan also became the first female specialist skills coach in the Australian Football League with the Adelaide Crows.[3] Her younger brother, Mark, is a former AFL footballer.[2]

Mickan is also a freelance writer and public keynote speaker.[2][5] In 2013, Mickan was elected to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame.[6]

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gollark: Perhaps the headers should also store the location of the last header, in case of [DATA EXPUNGED].
gollark: There are some important considerations here: it should be able to deal with damaged/partial files, encryption would be nice to have (it would probably work to just run it through authenticated AES-whatever when writing), adding new files shouldn't require tons of seeking, and it might be necessary to store backups on FAT32 disks so maybe it needs to be able of using multiple files somehow.
gollark: Hmm, so, designoidal idea:- files have the following metadata: filename, last modified time, maybe permissions (I may not actually need this), size, checksum, flags (in case I need this later; probably just compression format?)- each version of a file in an archive has this metadata in front of it- when all the files in some set of data are archived, a header gets written to the end with all the file metadata plus positions- when backup is rerun, the system™ just checks the last modified time of everything and sees if its local copies are newer, and if so appends them to the end; when it is done a new header is added containing all the files- when a backup needs to be extracted, it just reads the end and decompresses stuff at the right offset
gollark: I don't know what you mean "dofs", data offsets?

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Patricia Mickan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  2. Radio interview with Mark and Pat Mickan. National Library of Australia (28 February 1993). Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  3. Williamson, Andrea (25 July 2008). SA Olympians Past and Present - Pat Mickan. 891 ABC Adelaide. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  4. FIBA Archive. Player Search. Player Profile: Patricia Mickan. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  5. Government of South Australia. Primary Industries & Regions SA. Clare 2007. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  6. Basketball Australia. Hall of Fame: Pat Mickan. Retrieved 2016-01-30.


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