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Georgeann Wells is an All-American basketball player, who was active at West Virginia University (WVU) from 1982 to 1986. [2] Among her other accomplishments, Wells is notable as the first American woman to register a dunk in an official NCAA intercollegiate basketball game on December 21, 1984.
During her freshman season she averaged 6.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per game in 32 games, making six starts. [13] In December 2020, she became the eighth woman to dunk in a college basketball game when she dunked with under a minute left in the first half of Stanford's victory against California.
A slam dunk, also simply known as a dunk, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by shoving the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. [1] It is a type of field goal that is worth two points.
Shaquille O'Neal's 13-year-old daughter, Me'arah O'Neal, can dunk. Her older brother, Shareef, posted a video to his Twitter account on Tuesday night of the young baller throwing down on a ...
Saturday night’s NBA Slam Dunk contest was once again a disappointment to many fans. Knicks highflyer Obi Toppin came out victorious with a nice finishing dunk, but the event was largely a tough ...
The Slam Dunk Contest isn’t until March, but Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards threw down the dunk of the year on Friday night against the Toronto Raptors. During the third quarter of ...
Snow was a psychology major at the University of Tennessee.She played alongside Tennessee graduates like Kara Lawson.On November 30, 2000, Snow became just the third woman in NCAA college basketball history to dunk during a game.
The only female WNBA players surpassing Griner's height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m), also that of fellow center Liz Cambage of Australia, have been the late Margo Dydek of Poland, at 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 m), Bernadett Határ of Hungary, at 6 feet 10.5 inches (2.096 m) [49] and Han Xu of China at 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m).