Who was Tennessee's Best Player

[arnwine]

Who was the best player to ever come out of Tennessee since we went to 5 on 5?

 

Knowing that Tiffany Woosley's dad, aka salty, is going to push her like a drug, I would cast my vote for Jennifer Azzi.

 

Jennifer won multiple State Championships, 2 National Championships, Multiple All-American honors and a National Player of the year trophy.

 

When the Hall of Fame opened she was voted as one of the 10 best to ever play.

 

She has played on 3 olympics (so far) and still plays pro ball. She (no disrespect Salty aka Mr. Woosley) was agreat high school player and was the Mia Hamm of basketball.

 

I know there are a lot of great ones out there but I never saw one better.

 

PS I am no relation to Jennifer, have no ties to Oak Ridge High School, and dislike Stanford.

[The Mav]

I think if you polled people outside the state of Tennessee who was the best womans player from TN has been my guess is that Azzi would win.

[arnwine]

Mav,

 

Be careful, Mr Woosley is on a warpath about this topic.

[trojanbob]

I believe that you could make a firm arguement for Nicki McCraY as the best High School player, and she was successful later....

[givbakr2]

McCray is still the all-time Tn.career scoring leader and her post high school accomplishments are second to none.

Edited January 12, 2004 by givbakr2

[The Mav]

McCray, although great was not the college player that Azzi was, no question.

[o21putt]

Arnwine,

 

One slight correction about Jennifer Azzi. She was not on a team that won a state championship while she was a player at Oak Ridge.

[MCTIGER]

The best "high school" player would be Woosley in my opinion. She and her teams dominated high school ball in the state and nationally.She averaged 30+ points a game, finished runner up as a freshman and then never lost another high school game ( also winning a national championship).

 

I do believe Azi and McCray would win the discussion if you are talking about their careers after high school. Azi would take top honors in this discussion. She is one of the greatest women players ever to play.

[trojanbob]

OK, ONE ON ONE FULL COURT LET'S GET RIDICULOUS. LET THEM PLAY

[trojanbob]

112 HIGH SCHOOL GAMES 37 GAMES WITH AT LEAST A 20-20 NIGHT POINTS AND REBOUNDS. MCCRAY THAT IS...

[Coach2001]

How about these 5

 

No order!

 

 

Old School!

 

Nikki McCray

Jennifer Azzi

Tiffany Woosley

------- Hawhee South Greene OOPs!

Latina Davis

 

Sorry about the first name. It may have been Debbie

 

New School

 

Brittney Jackson Tn.

Debbie Merrillo Cincinnati

Ashley Early Vandy

Krystle Horton Middle Tennessee State

Abi Ramsey Vandy

Ashley Newman Shelbyville....Maryland

Edited January 13, 2004 by Coach2001

[o21putt]

Coach2001,

 

It was Debbie Hawhee from South Greene. You may have been thinking of Sheila Frost from Giles County.