Jamila Wideman
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Jamila Wideman (born October 16, 1975) is an American female left-handed point guard basketball player, lawyer and activist.
[edit] High school
In 1992-93 Wideman was named USA Today First Team High School All-American, Converse High School All-American, Nike High School All-American, Kodak High School All-American, New England High School Player of the Year, Massachusetts High School Player of the Year, and High School All-American by the WBCA.[1] She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1993, scoring ten points.[2]
Her high school basketball team was the subject of a book, "In These Girls Hope is a Muscle," by Madeleine Blais (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87113-572-8) While in high school, Wideman published poems on the complexities of her racial identity in her high school newspaper. Shortly after the Los Angeles uprisings of 1992, she wrote and published a poem titled "Black".[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "1993 WBCA High School All-Americans". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/93-HSAA.asp. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ "1993 WBCA High School All-America Game". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/upload/1993HSAAG.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ Out of the Shadows
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- African American women's basketball players
- Cleveland Rockers players
- Jews in the African diaspora
- Los Angeles Sparks players
- Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)
- Sportspeople from New York City
- Point guards
- Portland Fire players
- Stanford Cardinal women's basketball players
- Basketball players from New York
