Who is Jim Boeheim’s wife Juli Boeheim?

Juli Boeheim is the wife of Jim Boeheim an American former college basketball coach.

The couple got married in 1997, and they have three children together: Jimmy and twins, Buddy and Jamie.

Juli and Jim Boeheim met while racing horses. They were first seen at a party at the Kentucky Derby in Lexington in 1994. Juli was born on March 5, 1966, in Miami, Florida, but raised in Kentucky.

In 1996, Juli Greene Boeheim told Sports Illustrated that she and Jim started talking after playing backgammon at the party.

Jim and Juli Boeheim founded the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation. The website lists its mission statement as such:

“The Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation strives to enrich the lives of kids in need within our Central New York community, as well as, provide support for eliminating cancer through research and advocacy.”

Their events include an annual gala called the Basket Ball and a Golf Classic. They also run a Fantasy Camp for adults, in which participants get to play basketball as if they were on the Syracuse team.