In the minds of many people, the title of dunk champion belongs to male players, and it seems to have little to do with female players, but there are always people breaking people's stereotypes. Just as the so-called "scarf does not let the eyebrows", in the McDonald's National High School Dunk Contest, there have been 3 female players to win the championship, and the last 2 dunk championships have been won by female players, making the male players lose face.
Candace Parker (2004)
When it comes to Candice, everyone is no stranger. In the WNBA, Candice has won the championship twice, been elected the MVP of the Finals, the MVP of the regular season twice, the All-Star of the 6 times, the best defensive player, and the best team (6 times a team), and is the top superstar in the history of the WNBA. Candace was also honored at the NCAA. She led the University of Tennessee to two NCAA titles and two John Wooden Awards. In addition, she won 2 Olympic gold medals with the U.S. women's basketball team.
But in fact, in high school, Candice was already famous. While attending Central Naperville High School in Illinois, Candice made her first dunk in a game on December 27, 2001, when she was 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. She also became the first female player in Illinois to complete a dunk.
On March 29, 2004, at the National High School Dunk Contest, Candice, who was 1.91 meters tall at the time, won the championship again, becoming the first female player in history to win the high school dunk championship, and the two Smiths who were beheaded by her were not unknown, namely Josh Smith and JR Smith, and Rudy Gay was also on the list.
Candace wasn't the first female player to compete in the National High School Dunk Contest, Brittany Hunter had played the year before, but she hadn't even completed a full dunk. In the 2004 dunk contest, Candice scored a total of 223 points, far ahead of second-place Joe Crawford (148 points). During this time, she completed a left arm blindfold dunk and won a full house, 7 of the 8 referees gave 10 points, and the only referee who gave 9 points also had to admit: "Candice is amazing." ”
Francesca Belibi (2019)
After Candice, the female player was missed for years with the National High School Dunk Championship. This was the time when a number of dunk champions who came to be known as Gerald Green, Griffin, DeRozan, Bradley, Grayson Allen, Sexton and Zion were born. Until 2019, Bellibe once again let the "women's buckler" come to people.
Beribi, 20, was born in Kansas City on July 20, 2001, to a cameroonian immigrant family. It is said that the 1.85 m tall (barefoot height) of 1.85 m (barefoot height) of Berry bi, who plays as a striker, has an arm span of 1.96 m and bounces 78 cm vertically.
When she was a student at Regis Christ High School in Denver, Bellibe often staged the soaring dunks. In 2017, Bellibe became the first female player in Colorado history to complete a dunk in a game. In February 2019, she also became the first female player to complete an empty dunk in actual combat. In her senior year of high school, Bellibe won the National High School Slam Dunk Contest again. Today, she attends Stanford University and won the NCAA championship last year.
In the 2019 National High School Dunk Contest, Bellibe performed amazingly, and the players who competed with her for the dunk championship included Achuva, who now plays for the Raptors. As a result, Beribi scored 10 points on all four dunks of the tournament. One of the dunks, Beribi's later teammate Ashten Prechtel at Stanford University, sat in a chair dressed in black, and Bellibe jumped over her head to complete the one-handed burst buckle, shocking four.
Ashlyn Watkins (Ashlyn Watkins, 2022)
At this year's 2022 National High School Dunk Contest, a female player named Ashling overpowered many male high school players, becoming the third female player in history to be elected to the National High School Slam Dunk Championship. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the National High School Star Game will be suspended in 2020 and 2021. This also means that the National High School Slam Dunk Contest has been won by female players for two consecutive years.
Ashling is 1.91 meters tall and plays as a center from Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. She is ranked 12th in ESPN's National High School Student Rankings and will be attending the University of South Carolina. In actual combat, Ashlin often staged one-handed dunks, which stunned his teammates and opponents.
At this year's National High School Dunk Contest, Ashling scored a total of 113 points in the first round, first completing a fiery one-handed dunk with 57 points (a total of 6 judges), and then wearing a Candice Parker jersey in the second dunk, starting from the sideline, and making a change of hand dunk, scoring 56 points.
In the final, Ashling cooperated with his friends to rebound the ball after the ball was thrown, detonating the whole field, and thus suppressing Nick Smith Jr. with a one-point difference and winning the 2022 National High School Dunk Championship.
In fact, with the progress of the times, dunks are no longer the patent of male players, and more and more female players can show a dunk. Even O'Neill's youngest daughter, Miala, was able to complete a dunk in training. Miala is the youngest child of O'Neill and his ex-wife Shanny Nelson. In February 2020, a video of Miala's dunk went viral online, when she was under 14 years old but had reached 1.91 meters tall.
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