Murriel Page
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| Born |
September 18, 1975 Louin, Mississippi |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 160 lb (73 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Bay Springs (Bay Springs, Mississippi) | ||||||||||||
| College | Florida (1994–1998) | ||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 1998 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Washington Mystics | |||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1998–2009 | ||||||||||||
| Position | Forward / Center | ||||||||||||
| Number | 10, 00 | ||||||||||||
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| 1998–2006 | Washington Mystics | ||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Los Angeles Sparks | ||||||||||||
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| 2010–present | Florida (assistant) | ||||||||||||
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LaMurriel Page (born September 18, 1975) is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a forward and center in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for eleven seasons. Page played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was drafted in the first round of the 1998 WNBA Draft. She played professionally for the Washington Mystics and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.
Murriel Page was born in Louin, Mississippi in 1975. She attended Bay Springs High School in Bay Springs, Mississippi, where she led her Bay Springs high school basketball team to two state championships.
Page accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team. At the end of her Gators career, Page was ranked second all-time in points (1,915), rebounds (1,251), field goal percentage (.550), and free throws made (334). She graduated from the University of Florida with her bachelor's degree in 1998, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2009.
Page competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1997 Jones Cup Team that won the silver medal in Taipei. Several of the games were close, with the USA team winning four games by six points or fewer, including an overtime game in the semifinal match against Japan. The gold medal game against South Korea was also close, but the USA fell 76–71 to claim the silver medal for the event. Page was the leading scorer for the team, averaging 14.7 points per game.
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