19 Facts About Walt Torrence

Walter Alexander Torrence was an American basketball player.

Walt Torrence earned all-conference honors in the Pacific Coast Conference as a junior, and was named an All-American as a senior in 1959.

Walt Torrence was one of five Army members on the US national basketball team which won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 1963.

Walt Torrence attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and played guard for the Bruins basketball team for three seasons.

Walt Torrence received honorable mention from conference coaches for the All-PCC team, and was named third-team All-Coast by United Press International.

Walt Torrence earned second-team All-PCC honors, and was named second-team All-Pacific Coast by UPI.

Walt Torrence became the fourth player in UCLA history to score over 1,000 points in his career.

Walt Torrence led the PCC in scoring with 344 points, averaging 21.4 points per game, and was the only unanimous selection for the first-team All-PCC.

Walt Torrence finished the season with overall averages of 21.5 points and 11.6 rebounds per game, which were both ranked second in school history at the time behind Willie Naulls.

Walt Torrence was voted a third-team All-American by UPI, and he was a first-team selection by the Converse Basketball Yearbook and the Helms Athletic Foundation.

Walt Torrence finished his UCLA career with averages of 15.3 points and 8.5 rebounds, leaving the school ranked second in scoring average, and third in both total points and career rebounds.

Walt Torrence was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.

Walt Torrence was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1960, and was stationed at Angel Island in California in his first year.

Walt Torrence was a captain by 1965, when he took command of Headquarters Battery, 5th Missile Battalion at Olathe Naval Air Station in Kansas.

Walt Torrence was one of five Armed Forces members, all from the Army, who were selected for the 12-man US national team at the 1963 PanAm Games in Brazil.

The US won the gold medal, but Walt Torrence played in just three games after returning home due to the death of his father.

Walt Torrence was a member of the US squad which finished fourth at the 1963 World Championship.

On September 20,1969, Walt Torrence died at age 32 in Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael, California, from injuries suffered in a car accident near Sacramento.

Walt Torrence was a passenger in a car on Interstate 80 about.