Michelle Marciniak
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| Born | October 29, 1973 Silver Spring, Maryland |
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Michelle Brooke-Marciniak (born October 29, 1973) is a former All American collegiate and professional basketball player who played point guard in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). As a floor general, Brooke-Marciniak competed for two National Championships during her three-year career at the University of Tennessee. Michelle led the Tennessee Lady Vols to their 4th National Championship and was named MVP in the 1996 Final Four held in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was most recently the recruiting coordinator/assistant coach of the women's basketball team at the University of South Carolina from 2003-2008. Brooke-Marciniak was responsible for two back to back top recruiting classes, rated #18 in 2007 and #7 in 2008, the highest ranked class ever recruited at South Carolina.
Brooke-Marciniak is currently the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of SHEEX, Inc. in Marlton, New Jersey, a performance fabric bedding company.
Marciniak was named National Player of the Year by Parade magazine, Naismith National Player of the Year, and Gatorade National High School Player of the Year as a senior in 1991 at Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She competed in the highly respected East Penn Conference (the forerunner to the Lehigh Valley Conference), where she scored 3,025 points for Central Catholic. Her number 23 jersey has been retired by the school in recognition of her extraordinary high school basketball achievements. Sports Illustrated wrote about Marciniak when she was a high school junior in an article titled "She's the Ponytailed Princess of Hoop."
After a year at the University of Notre Dame, Marciniak transferred to the University of Tennessee, where she quickly became a leader of the dominant University of Tennessee Lady Vols women's basketball team under head coach Pat Summitt. Summitt had recruited her in high school and went into labor as she was sitting in the Marciniaks' home on a recruiting trip. Summitt quickly wrapped up the visit and flew back to Knoxville to give birth to her son, Tyler. "Spinderella" as Marciniak was affectionately known because of her free wheeling, spinning and slashing style, became a crowd favorite at Tennessee. She scored over 1,000 points and remains ranked among Tennessee's top ten all-time in assists and three-point scoring, despite only playing three seasons.
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