Brittney Griner
Scouting Profile
Class: |
2013 |
|---|---|
School: |
Baylor University |
Position: |
Center | Height: |
6'8 |
Hometown: |
USA |
Brittney Griner (born October 18, 1990) is an American college women’s basketball player at Baylor College in Waco, Texas.
In ’09, Griner was named the country’s #1 senior high school women’s basketball player by Rivals.com.
Griner attended Nimitz High School in Houston. In addition to lettering in basketball throughout high school, she played varsity volleyball as a freshman.
Additionally to basketball, like a newcomer Griner performed college volleyball.
Throughout Griner’s senior year, Brittney Griner brought the Cougars towards the Texas 5A women basketball condition championship game, where they lost 52-43 to Mansfield Summit Senior High School. Additionally, Griner dunked 52 occasions in 32 games like a senior. Griner set just one-game record with seven dunks against Aldine Senior High School.
Brittney Griner was named a WBCA All-American and took part in this year’s WBCA Senior High School All-America Game, leading they by scoring 20 points and collecting 9 rebounds.
Brittney Griner recorded among the first women’s collegiate dunks, the very first being Georgeann Wells of West Virginia College.
The 34 points and 11 blocks were career levels.
Brittney Griner grew to become the 2nd lady to dunk two times in one college game. Baylor would win that game by 81 points beating Texas Condition 99-18.
Brittney Griner is simply the seventh player to dunk throughout a women’s college the game of basketball.
Like a true newcomer, Brittney Griner grew to become established among the finest shot blockers in most of women’s basketball history. Following Brittney Griner’s newcomer year, Brittney Griner had set the in history record for blocked shots in one season with a college female player(all divisions) by rejecting 223 shots.
On March 29, Brittney Griner brought the woman Bears towards the Final Four. Within the Elite Eight game right before, by which Baylor defeated Duke 51-48, Brittney Griner blocked 9 shots, amassing 35 for that tournament, a brand new NCAA Women’s Tournament record. Duke’s Alison Bales had held the prior record of 30 blocks within the 2006 NCAA Women’s Tournament.
Baylor reached the Final Four, before losing to eventual-champion UConn, 70-50. Griner was named an AP Second Team All-American.
Most of the individuals who took part in the on-line poll stated they’d greatly want to see women dunk in NCAA basketball.
On March 3, 2010, Brittney Griner was thrown from a game title for punching Texas Tech player Jordan Barncastle hard after Barncastle attempted to throw Brittney Griner towards the floor on multiple occasions. The punch tossed by Brittney Griner broke Barncastle’s nose. Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey enforced a 1-game suspension additionally towards the one-game suspension mandated by NCAA rules.
