After leading the Nimitz Cougars to a state championship game in her senior year - during which she dunked the ball a record 52 times in 32 games - she was named to the illustrious Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-American team, and scored 20 points in its showpiece game. "If I can show that I'm out and I'm fine, then hopefully the younger generation will feel the same way.". Brittney Griners mother, Sandra Griner, is a full housewife. Griner attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she majored in basketball. ", "What Brittney Griner faces in Russian prison camps", "California woman back home after Russian imprisonment", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brittney_Griner&oldid=1142299253, 4 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year (20102013), 2009WBCA High School Coaches' All-America Team, 2012WBCA NCAA Division I Defensive Player of the Year, 2013WBCA NCAA Division I Defensive Player of the Year, 2014FIBA World Championship All-Star Five, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 17:00. Brittney Griner Admits to Being Father of Twins - BlackSportsOnline In 2016 and 2019, she renewed her contract with the Dallas Wings, formerly known as the Shock. [12][13] Griner was named to the national team for the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan), where she won her second gold medal. In January 2010, she became only the seventh player to dunk during a women's college basketball game,[32] and only the second woman to dunk twice in a single college game, making the second and third dunks of her college career[33] in a lopsided 9918 victory against Texas State University. She is the lone NCAA athlete to have scored 2,000 points and blocked 500 shots. Back in August, we covered WNBA star Brittney Griner's unsuccessful attempt to have her 28 day marriage to fellow player, Glory Johnson, annulled based on Griner's belief that Johnson was still intimate with her ex-boyfriend during the two women's courtship. Brittney Yevette Griner, an American professional basketball player, competes for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association. [114] The couple's divorce was finalized in June 2016. Brittney Griner Father, Raymond Griner Parents, Father, Mother, Siblings, Who Is Raymond Griner? "There are no words to express this pain.
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