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!
In order to guess who I am, you are going to have to take a step back in time. Wait a second, not that far back. But it has been a couple of years since I took the floor for my university. I was the first female in my school’s history to score over 2,000 points for a career – 2,077 to be exact. What is impressive is that I did it in just 94 games. That is a career scoring average of 22 points per game. I was later passed as the all-time scoring leader in my school’s history about 10 years later. Three times in my career, I scored 40 points or more in a game; that includes the 42 I dropped on our crosstown rivals. For my career, I had over 1,000 rebounds and nearly 100 blocks. I was named A-10 Player of the Year twice. Nine years after I graduated, I was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame, and I am the only female in my school’s history to have her number retired. After my college career, I went on to play in Europe and had a brief stint in the ABL. After my playing career was done, I had a brief stint in coaching.
Who am I ?
Be sure to check in tomorrow for O’ Caption my Caption! where we provide the photo, and you, the reader provide the creativity.
My inner James Joyce isn’t working today:) I need helpful hints from someone who knows alot more about the A-10!