Maya Moore

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Maya Moore
College	Connecticut
Sport	Basketball
Position	Forward
Class	Freshman
Career	2007 – present
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	162 lb (73 kg)
Nationality	USA
Born	June 11, 1989 (1989-06-11) (age 19) Lawrenceville, Georgia
High school	Collins Hill HS, Suwanee, Georgia

Maya Moore (born June 11, 1989) is an American basketball forward for the University of Connecticut Huskies, and the winner of the 2006 and 2007 Naismith Prep Player of the Year.

Moore, a native of Jefferson City, Missouri, had her first exposure to basketball at the age of three. Her mother mounted a hoop on the back door of their apartment to prevent her from running around the apartment. As a junior in 2005-06, she was named the Naismith Prep Player of the Year after leading Collins Hill High to Georgia's Class 5A state championship. She was only the second junior to win the Naismith award ^[1]

In December 2006, she led the Collins Hill Eagles over Poly (Long Beach, California) by a score of 75-61, resulting in her being selected unanimously as the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament of Champions in Chandler, Arizona. In the title game of the "T-Mobile Invitational" in Seattle, she scored 48 points in a win over St. Elizabeth (Wilmington, Delaware).

In 2007, Moore became Collins Hill High School's all-time leader in points and rebounds. During her first three seasons at Collins Hill, the school amassed a 94-3 record. ^[2] Moore announced that she would play college basketball at the University of Connecticut. ^[3] Once again, she led Collins Hill High to another Georgia Class 5A state championship and was named the Naismith Prep Female Player of the Year for 2007. It is rumored that her choice of University of Connecticut over The University of Tennessee Lady Vols, and Pat Summitt's suspicion of recruiting violations on UConn's part, caused her to end the schools' early highly anticipated home and home match-up.

She was named to the U.S. U-18 National Team in 2006, and helped that team qualify for the 2007 U19 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Moore was named Big East Player of the Year on March 7, 2008.

Moore had her consecutive game scoring streak snapped at 31 straight games with her 7-point effort against Pittsburgh in the Big East semifinals, marking the first time this season she failed to register double-digit points.

Moore is tied with Diana Taurasi’s 31-game streak (last 14 games of 2003 season & first 17 games of 2004 season) from Feb. 19, 2003 through Jan. 27, 2004 for the most consecutive double-figure scoring outputs in UConn history. Her 31-game streak also ranks as the UConn record for consecutive double-figure scoring efforts to open a career.

She also broke the UConn single-season record for most points as a freshman breaking the mark set by Svetlana Abrosimova, who had 538 in 1997-98.

In December 2007 she was named 4th on Newsweek's poll of the "Sexiest Women Alive".^{[citation needed]}

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