Kerry Bascom
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| College | University of Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Conference | Big East Conference | ||||||||||
| Sport | Basketball | ||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||
| Jersey # | 24 | ||||||||||
| Career | 1987–1991 | ||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||
| High school | Epping, NH | ||||||||||
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| Kodak All American Big East Player of the year (1989,1990,1991) |
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Kerry Bascom is a retired American women's basketball player. She played forward and center for the Connecticut Huskies (UConn) from 1987 to 1991, scoring 2,177 points, a school record until broken in 1998 by Nykesha Sales. She helped lead the Connecticut team to its first ever Big East regular season championship (1989), first Big East Tournament championship (1989), first NCAA tournament appearance (1989), first NCAA Tournament win (1990), and the first ever NCAA Final Four appearance (1991). Bascom is the first UConn player to be named to a national All America team. She would go on to play for the gold medal winning World University Game Team in 1991.
Kerry Bascom attended Epping High School in Epping, New Hampshire, where her graduating class included only 44 students. Schools in New Hampshire in the small school division are allowed to add middle school students to their rosters. Because of that rule, Kerry was able to join the junior varsity team as an eighth grader. She scored 25 points in her first game and averaged 30 points a game on the junior varsity team, so she was added to the varsity team (after an exemption was granted). She scored 12 points in four minutes in her first game. During her sophomore year her team won the Class S (small) basketball championship, and during her junior and senior year her team was runner up in the Class M (medium) championship. Kerry finished high school as Epping’s all-time leading scorer.
Bascom had a friend from a rival school call her and invite her to try out for an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) team in Massachusetts since they didn’t have any in the New Hampshire area. Bascom and her friend were two of the 12-member team who all hailed from New Hampshire. They traveled to Massachusetts every weekend that year, and the following year they started an AAU team in New Hampshire. This team ended up playing together for about five years. Of the 12 players, 11 of them went on to play for Division I colleges.
Bascom's mom had been very sick with multiple sclerosis so Bascom wanted to stay close to home. She narrowed her college selection down to UConn, Boston College, Syracuse University, Rutgers University and Boston University. She chose UConn, which was 2½ hours away. Bascom was coach Geno Auriemma's first blue-chip recruit. Her freshman year was challenging as many of the upperclassmen had been recruited by the prior coach. Her freshman roommate was a senior, who would occasionally lock her out of her room.
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