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Maya Moore
Maya Moore at Championship Dinner
CollegeConnecticut
SportBasketball
PositionForward
Jersey #23
ClassSenior
Career2007–present
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight170 lb (77 kg)
NationalityUSA
Born (1989-06-11) June 11, 1989 (age 35)
Jefferson City, Missouri
Awards
2008 USBWA National Freshman of the Year
2009 Big East Player of the Year
2009 Big East Tournament Most Outstanding Performer
2009 CoSIDA/ESPN Academic All-America First Team
2009 USBWA National Player of the Year by the United States Basketball Writers Association
2009 AP All-America first team
2009 Women's NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team
2009 State Farm Wade Trophy Player of the Year
2009 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I State Farm Coaches’ All-America Basketball Team
2009 Naismith Trophy
2009 Women's John R. Wooden Award
2010 State Farm Wade Trophy Player of the Year
2010 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player
Championships
2009 NCAA Championship 2010 NCAA Championship

Maya April Moore (born June 11, 1989) is an American basketball forward for the University of Connecticut Huskies, and the winner of the 2006 and 2007 Naismith Prep Player of the Year. She was selected as the John Wooden Award winner in 2009 after leading Connecticut to the undefeated national championship. The following season, Moore led Connecticut to capture their second national championship and continued their overall undefeated game-winning streak at 78; in the 2010–11 season, she led the Huskies to extend that streak to an NCAA women's record (all divisions) of 89.

Personal

Maya April Moore was born on June 11, 1989 in Jefferson City, Missouri. She is the daughter of Mike Dabney, a guard on the Rutgers University men's basketball team that reached the final four 1976, and Kathryn Moore. [1] Moore had her first exposure to basketball at the age of three. Her mother mounted a hoop on the back door of their apartment to prevent her from running around the apartment.[2]

Collins Hill High School

As a junior in 2005-06, she was named the Naismith Prep Player of the Year after leading Collins Hill High School to Georgia's Class 5A state championship. She was only the second junior to win the Naismith award [3] Her first dunk was one-handed off an alley-oop pass in warm-ups at a dunk contest in Charlotte, NC in December 2005. She was 16 at the time.[4]

In December 2006, she led the Collins Hill Eagles over Poly (Long Beach, California) by a score of 75-61, resulting in her being selected unanimously as the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament of Champions in Chandler, Arizona. In the title game of the "T-Mobile Invitational" in Seattle, she scored 48 points in a win over St. Elizabeth (Wilmington, Delaware).

In 2007, Moore became Collins Hill High School's all-time leader in points and rebounds. During her four seasons at Collins Hill, the school amassed a 125-3 record.[3] Moore won 3 Georgia Class 5A State Championships. Collins Hill was ranked #1 and claimed the crown of National Champions in 2007 by USA Today (Ranked #2 in 2006 and Ranked #5 in 2005). Moore announced that she would play college basketball at the University of Connecticut.[5]

After she led Collins Hill High School to a third straight Georgia Class 5A state championship she received her second Naismith Prep Female Player of the Year in 2007.

Moore was named a WBCA All-American.[6] She participated in the 2007 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored 25 points[7] and earned MVP honors for the Red team.[8]

University of Connecticut

Moore led the Huskies to a 36-2 record in the 2007-08 NCAA season, their best record since their Final Four appearance of 2004. During the season, Moore averaged a team-high 17.8 points per game, and hit 42% of her three point shots. She was second to Candace Parker in the Associated Press Player of the Year voting. Moore also placed second on the team in rebounds with 7.6 per game and blocks with 1.6 per game. She was the first freshman, male or female, to be named the Big East Player of the Year. Moore won the award again as a sophomore.

In 2008-2009, Moore lead the team in scoring and steals, and tied Tina Charles for total rebounds en route to a 39–0 season, culminating in an NCAA National Championship.[9]

On 7 March, against Syracuse, Maya Moore scored the 2,000th point of her college career. She is the first player at UConn to accomplish this feat as a junior.[10]

Working hard and playing good team basketball, respecting the game and trying to bring it as much honor as we can is a beautiful thing.

— Maya Moore[11]

During the 2009-10 season, some of the sports media considered whether the dominance of the UConn program was bad for women’s basketball. Some concluded it was not bad for the game, and supported the notions of playing hard and trying to play a beautiful game. [11]

Moore was the subject of an ESPN Sports Science video clip, discussing her vertical leap, court vision, and muscle memory. They discussed her ability to steal, noting that she can move her hands faster than the striking speed of a rattlesnake.[12]

USA Basketball

Moore was invited to the USA Basketball Women's National Team training camp in the fall of 2009, one of only three college players and the only junior to be invited to the training camp.[13] The team selected to play for the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Olympics is usually chosen from these participants. At the conclusion of the training camp, the team will travel to Ekaterinburg, Russia, where they compete in the 2009 UMMC Ekaterinburg International Invitational. [13]

Moore was one of twenty players named to the national team pool. Twelve of this group will be chosen to represent the USA in the 2010 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.[14]

Moore playing for USA National team USA against the Select team.
Moore playing for USA Select team against the USA National team.

The USA National team began training in April of 2010 to prepare for the FIBA World Championship starting in September of 2010. Moore was one of the players selected for the training sessions, run by the national team coach Geno Auriemma. The teams played informal scrimmages, with one team made up of the players expected to be on the national team, and the other team made up of invited all star college players, referred to as the select team. Although Moore is still in college, she has been invited to be part of the national team. In the first two ten-minute games, Moore played with the national team and helped them to two wins. Then Moore switched jerseys, and played for the select team. In both games, the select team won, with Moore making the assist to put the team ahead, then stealing the ball and making the game winning shot in the final seconds. Moore ended up being on the winning side in all four games.[15]

Moore was named as one of the National team members to represent the USA Basketball team in the WNBA versus USA Basketball.[16] This game replaces the normal WNBA All-Star game with WNBA All-Stars versus USA Basketball, as part of the preparation for the FIBA World Championship for Women to be held in the Czech Republic during September and October of 2010.[17]

Awards and honors

  • She was named to the U.S. U-18 National Team in 2006, and helped that team qualify for the 2007 U19 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • In 2008, she became the first freshman in BIG EAST Basketball history (men or women) to be named as the BIG-EAST Player of the Year.
  • Through Moore's two seasons so far at UConn Moore has had only 3 games where she didn't reach double digits. Those games are a 7 point effort vs. Pittsburgh (3/10/08), 7 points vs. Rutgers (4/1/08) and 8 points vs. Villanova (2/24/09)
  • Moore also broke the UConn single-season record for most points as a freshman (678) breaking the mark set by Svetlana Abrosimova, who had 538 in 1997-98.
  • Scored her 1,000th career point on January 20, 2009 (in just her 55th game at UConn) at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut while scoring 40 points over the Syracuse Orange. The previous UConn record for the least games needed to reach 1,000 points was 63 by Svetlana Abrosimova.
  • Maya Moore becomes UConn's all-time single-season scoring leader with 712 points[18], ends season with 754 points[19]
  • Moore finished the 2009-10 season with 736 points, the second most points scored in a season by a UConn player only to herself (754 pts in 2008-09). In addition, this brings her career total to 2,168 points, 178 short of the UConn record of 2,346 points held by her teammate Tina Charles.
  • Moore was named the co-winner of the Honda-Broderick Cup (along with Megan Hodge from Penn State), awarded to the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The criteria include "outstanding athletic achievement but also team contributions, scholastics and community involvement".[20][21]
  • Moore won the 2010 ESPY Award for Best Female College Athlete.[22]
  • Moore was selected to play in a basketball game organized by President Barack Obama to entertain wounded troops. The players invited included some current and former stars: LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Bill Russell and Magic Johnson.[23][24]
  • Moore scored a career-high 41pts. while adding 10rebs., 3asts., 1stl., and 3blks. in UConn's historic 89th-consecutive victory on Dec. 21, 2010 against 22/22 Florida State.

2007

  • Naismith National Girls' High School Player of the Year
  • WBCA All-American[6]
  • WBCA High School Game MVP (Red team)[8]

2008

2009

Maya Moore
Maya Moore in Parade celebrating UConn undefeated National Championship

2010

Statistics

High school stats

Season Games PPG RPG SPG
2004-05 32 17.4 8.6 2.8
2005-06 32 23.2 11.3 5.4

High school totals

Number of Seasons Games PPG RPG SPG
4 128 19.3 8.6 3.5

University of Connecticut statistics

Maya Moore Statistics[45][46] at University of Connecticut
Year G FG FGA PCT 3FG 3FGA PCT FT FTA PCT REB AVG A TO B S MIN PTS AVG
2007-08 38 275 506 0.543 73 174 0.420 55 74 0.743 290 7.6 116 80 59 63 1121 678 17.8
2008-09 39 284 545 0.521 90 226 0.398 96 123 0.780 348 8.9 127 61 59 76 1209 754 19.3
2009-10 39 279 542 0.515 80 192 0.417 98 124 0.790 325 8.3 150 75 40 82 1098 736 18.9
Totals 116 838 1593 0.526 243 592 0.410 249 321 0.776 963 8.3 306 216 268 214 3428 2168 18.7

Notes

  1. ^ Sports Illustrated, November 17, 2008, p.70
  2. ^ "SI Vault". CNN. 15 January 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  3. ^ a b Sports Illustrated, p. 39, January 15, 2007
  4. ^ 2006 All-USA preps girls basketball team
  5. ^ Sports Illustrated for Kids, February 2007
  6. ^ a b "2007 WBCA High School All-Americans". WBCA. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
  7. ^ "2007 WBCA High School All-America Game". WBCA. Retrieved 21 April 2010. [dead link]
  8. ^ a b "WBCA High School All-America Game Record Book - MVPs". WBCA. Retrieved 21 April 2010. [dead link]
  9. ^ "Connecticut Huskies". STATS LLC. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  10. ^ Adamec, Carl (11 March 2010). "UConn women: Plenty of challenges ahead". Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
  11. ^ a b Lopsreti, Mike (31 March 2010). "Threat to women's game? UConn women are the exact opposite". USA Today. Retrieved 1 April 2009.
  12. ^ John Brenkus, Maya Moore (31 March 2010). Sport Science: Maya Moore. ESPN. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  13. ^ a b "USA Basketball Women's National Team To Tip-Off Training Tomorrow In D.C." USA Basketball. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  14. ^ "Charles, Moore lead U.S. pool additions". ESPN. 3 March 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  15. ^ "Women's basketball: As usual, Maya Moore excels". American-Republican Inc. AP. 18 April 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  16. ^ "Six Olympic Gold Medalists Among 11-Member Team Set To Participate In WNBA vs. USA Basketball: The Stars at the Sun Game". USA Basketball. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  17. ^ "FIBA World Championship for Women". FIBA. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  18. ^ "Hartford Courant". Retrieved 1 April 2009.
  19. ^ "UConn official site". Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  20. ^ Myers, Laura (21 June2010). "Connecticut's Maya Moore, Penn State's Megan Hodge share college athlete-of-the-year award". LATimes. Retrieved 22 June 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ a b "Moore Named Co-Winner Of 2010 Honda-Broderick Cup". University of Connecticut. 21 June 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  22. ^ a b "Brees big winner at ESPYS". ESPN. 15 July 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
  23. ^ "Barack Obama plays with NBA all-stars". ESPN. 8 August 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  24. ^ Baker, Peter (8 August 2010). "Obama Enlists the Pros for a Game". New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  25. ^ "USBWA WOMEN'S HONORS". Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  26. ^ "BigEast.org". Retrieved 2009-06-21. [dead link]
  27. ^ "Big East press release". Retrieved 23 April 2009. [dead link]
  28. ^ "UConn Press release". Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  29. ^ "USBWA WOMEN'S HONORS". Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  30. ^ "ESPN". Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  31. ^ "UConn Press Release". Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  32. ^ "WBCA Press Release". Retrieved 10 April 2009. [dead link]
  33. ^ "WBCA Press Release". Retrieved 10 April 2009. [dead link]
  34. ^ "NaismithPress Release". Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  35. ^ "Wooden Award Press Release". Retrieved 17 April 2009.
  36. ^ "Lakers, LeBron among ESPY winners". Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  37. ^ "Connecticut's Moore and Charles Highlight Women's Basketball All-Conference Teams". Big East Conference. Retrieved 4 March 2010. [dead link]
  38. ^ Altavilla, John (5 March 2010). "Tina Charles, Geno Auriemma Win Big East Top Honors". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
  39. ^ "UConn women's notebook: Moore honored for academics". CTPost.com. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
  40. ^ "Moore a three-time All-America". ESPN. 30 March 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
  41. ^ "WBCA and State Farm® Announce NCAA Division I State Farm Coaches' All-America Team". WBCA. 3 April 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2010. [dead link]
  42. ^ "Maya Moore Becomes Third Two-Time State Farm® Wade Trophy Winner". WBCA. 3 April 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2010. [dead link]
  43. ^ Altavilla, John (7 April 2010). "Final Four Notebook: Moore Named Most Outstanding Player". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  44. ^ Elliot, Rich (16 April 2010). "UConn's Moore wins Honda Sports Award". CTPost.com. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  45. ^ "UConn Media Guide" (PDF). p. 143. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
  46. ^ "UCONN Season Statistics". University of Connecticut. Retrieved 11 April 2010.

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