Women's Hoops Blog

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Friday, January 21, 2005

From West Virginia SID Shelly Poe, regarding Georgeann Wells:

I was covering the women's team at West Virginia at the time Georgeann and her older sister Marva came to WVU. As I remember it, she dunked frequently in practices and summer competition as a high schooler and she came to us with the reputation that she would someday dunk in a game. I don't recall any specific reference to a dunk in a game during high school.

I would also like to add that Georgeann did dunk for us twice in games (three times, actually, but one was disallowed because of a foul called at midcourt on another player) and teams would come into games with special plays because they didn't want to be the ones to get dunked on. That was before the time the women's game went to a smaller basketball; Georgeann's long fingers gave her the ability to palm the larger-size ball when few women could.