Who am I ? A10 women’s basketball edition |11/29/11

By Aaron M Smith

**** Welcome to the Pickin’ Splinter’s Who am I for A-10 women’s basketball. Each week we will highlight an A-10 player or coach past or present. Your mission should you choose to accept will be to take the set of clues and figure out who the player/coach is.  Now let’s lay the ground rules for this exercise. First and foremost try this without research. Release your inner James Joyce and show us your stream of consciousness as you decipher the answer. Add to that the teachings of Myagi: patience. If you don’t get the answer right away, give your brain a chance to work if for no other reason than to stay in the discussion. You may not have THE answer, but you might prompt another reader by asking the right question. Good luck!

I certainly hope everyone has recovered from all of the turkey this past weekend. It is going to be tough following last week’s “Who am I” , but I am going to give it my best shot. To start my college basketball career, I didn’t go far, heading East – one state over to be exact. If you said that I  “blocked” my way on the Atlantic 10 basketball scene it would be an understatement. Just 29 games into my college basketball career, I became the school’s all-time leader in blocked shots. During my freshman year, I set a school record with 11 blocks in one game.  I was the second player in the school’s history to score over 2,00o points and 1,000 rebounds in a career. During my freshman year, I earned Rookie of the Week honors a record 12 times. For my career I had well over 1,200 rebounds which came out to an average of 9.2 per game. 59 times I recorded a double-double in my career. During my college career, my teammates and I were a perfect 12-0 in A-10 tournament games. Not bad, huh? We won the A-10 championship 4 times in 5 years. A little misleading, I know. Well I had to sit out one season, but I can’t tell you why- that would be too easy. I was named Atlantic-10 Player of the Year twice. After my college career, I was drafted in the first round of the WNBA and headed north to start my professional career.

Who am I?