Trivia question - most blocks in high school

[Phil]

IN a game, a season or a career.

Oops, sorry wasn't clear. Career HS - four years

 

[bruinbball]

Maybe the staistician was counting blocking fouls in high school ;0)

 

[easttexastrash]

Cynthia Cooper?

 

[uconnfan68]

I love the analysis (I love that people are engaging, and not just responding, enough already, tell us). Never played for the liberty, though, and only 27 blocks in college, so if you are filtering on prolific shot-blockers in college or pros, that will be a dead-end. But San Diego County is right.

Candace Wiggins? I'm pretty sure she was in SD county.

 

[Phil]

Cooper is the wrong era, this happened in the 90's.

Wiggins is also the wrong era, a little too late, but the right height and the right county. Good guess.

 

[VAUConnFan]

Val Whiting.

 

[hoopingcrane]

Can anyone guess, without looking it up, who had the most blocks as a female High school player in the US?

I had the pleasure of meeting her at lunch in Denver, but I didn't know this, until I just looked it up.

Hint - the obvious guesses will be wrong, and not even close. (The right answer is more than 300 more than Griner's total)

Noting that you did not specify most blocks as a female basketball player, I respectfully submit the name of Alisha Glass, from Leland, Michigan, who had 3,584 blocks in her high school volley ball career, certainly more than any basketball player. (Yes, I looked it up and therefore am disqualified. How about an A for effort?)

 

[easttexastrash]

Is there a deadline on when the answer will be revealed?

 

[Phil]

Noting that you did not specify most blocks as a female basketball player, I respectfully submit the name of Alisha Glass, from Leland, Michigan, who had 3,584 blocks in her high school volley ball career, certainly more than any basketball player. (Yes, I looked it up and therefore am disqualified. How about an A for effort?)

A for effort.

I'm looking for a basketball player.

As for deadline, I have two responses. I honestly expected someone to say, enough already spill, but I've been pleasantly surprised that so many are willing to keep trying. My second response is that we have a family tradition of playing guessing games (not sure what they are called, but you get a summary, like Jack and Jill are lying dead in a puddle of water, what happened). The goal was to figure out the answer, and no giving up allowed. One of them took three years. So somewhere between now and three years, I guess.

 

[Phil]

Val Whiting.

Not Val

 

[diggerfoot]

I got it! Jack and Jill are goldfish. The basketball player? I haven't a clue.

 

[Phil]

I got it! Jack and Jill are goldfish. The basketball player? I haven't a clue.

Show-off

Here's the one that took three years - the music stopped the lady died. (No googling)

 

[Biff]

Show-off

Here's the one that took three years - the music stopped the lady died. (No googling)

Well here's one of mine to help you with your decision when to end this......
"Two weeks later, They found Phil bound and gagged"

 

[easttexastrash]

LOL. How about I list every player who has ever played high school basketball? I'm bound to get it sooner or later.

Can someone PM me when there is a winner?

 

[Phil]

Ok, OK, message received.

Actually pap49cba already got it, he just didn’t know her name,
The answer is Adia Barnes, better known as the All-time leading scorer for Arizona, and current TV commentator for the Storm, assistant coach of the Washington Huskies and Director of Player and Coach Development at Seattle Academy. She also has a foundation , the Adia Barnes Foundation

 

[easttexastrash]

Ok, OK, message received.

Actually pap49cba already got it, he just didn’t know her name,
The answer is Adia Barnes, better known as the All-time leading scorer for Arizona, and current TV commentator for the Storm, assistant coach of the Washington Huskies and Director of Player and Coach Development at Seattle Academy. She also has a foundation , the Adia Barnes Foundation

What was the all-time block record? Sorry, that may have already been stated in the thread.

 

[easttexastrash]

Wikipedia needs to be updated...it says that she had 112 blocks in high school.

 

[diggerfoot]

We use to do conundrums to pass the time while backpacking. The length it takes to get them is measured in miles. I probably figured out about ten of them, including this one. I won't give the answer, but I'll instead help with questions one should ask. Try to pin down the lady's occupation; cause of death; and type of music. The missing piece of how the music relates to the death should then start to surface.

 

[Phil]

Wikipedia needs to be updated...it says that she had 112 blocks in high school.

Good catch, fixed.

1112 blocks. Chris Enger had 859, Brittney Griner794, Alyssa DeHaan 718

 

[bruinbball]

Phil, question for you. Why do you think the block numbers dropped SOOO dramatically from HS to college? I understand not having 1000 in college, but you don't typically lose the anticipation and timing it takes to block shots and 27 seems low. Faris is similar size and had 35 by the end of her sophomore year. Also, 1112 seems astronomical. To think you had to average more than 11 blocks over a 100 game high school career is just nuts! Awesome for her though. I doubt that one gets broken.

 

[Bestiarius]

I got it! Jack and Jill are goldfish. The basketball player? I haven't a clue.

Nah, they were stabbed with icicles.

 

[VAUConnFan]

Jennifer Azzi.

 

[Bestiarius]

We use to do conundrums to pass the time while backpacking. The length it takes to get them is measured in miles. I probably figured out about ten of them, including this one. I won't give the answer, but I'll instead help with questions one should ask. Try to pin down the lady's occupation; cause of death; and type of music. The missing piece of how the music relates to the death should then start to surface.

Conundrums - Is that anything like bongos?
Was she murdered? Did her job require a college degree?

 

[diggerfoot]

I gather from Phil's post this may have been done before on the Boneyard but, to answer your last two questions, no and no.

 

[Phil]

Phil, question for you. Why do you think the block numbers dropped SOOO dramatically from HS to college? I understand not having 1000 in college, but you don't typically lose the anticipation and timing it takes to block shots and 27 seems low. Faris is similar size and had 35 by the end of her sophomore year. Also, 1112 seems astronomical. To think you had to average more than 11 blocks over a 100 game high school career is just nuts! Awesome for her though. I doubt that one gets broken.

I wondered about that myself. I have a two-part theory, but you'll know more about whether it may be plausible.

The first part (mostly speculation) is that blocking isn't one of the skills that high school coaches dwell on. I assume coaches and players spend a lot of time on dribbling and passing and shooting, then graduate to boxing out and other skills, with lots of drills to emphasize various fundamentals, but I'm guessing there isn't a lot of emphasis on blocking.

In fact, I'll go further, and here's where your experience as a coach can correct me if I'm off-base - rebounding is an important fundamental skill, and part of good rebounding is anticipating the flight of the ball, then positioning to snare the rebound. The decision to place yourself in position for a rebound is largely a decision to forego a chance at a block. This is a rational decision, while a successful block is better than a successful positioning for a rebound (because a blocked shot doesn't have a chance to go in, while you might be in the right rebound position and see the shot go in), a failed block attempt often leaves you out of position for the rebound, so unless you are really good at blocking, you ought to pass on the block attempt and work for the rebound (passing on the block attempt doesn't mean you don't put a hand up - you might put the hand up to alter the shot attempt, or block a bad shot, but you aren't jumping, and you are ready to turn to rebound position as soon as the shot is off.)

However, players who successfully block, enjoy it, and may look for more opportunities. This feeds on itself if success full, so there will be a few players who block a lot, and many players who rarely block.

The second part of the equation is that she is 5' 11". That's decently tall in high school, and she probably had many many match ups where she had several inches on the player she was guarding so a block was feasible. Once she did it a few times, she got good at it, and was able to capitalize on it. Jump to college, and she is still 5' 11'' but the 5' 8" post players in high school didn't get to D1 college, so now she is defending 5' 11'' and six footers. Suddenly, the attempt to block goes awry, leaves her out of position to rebound, so her coach tells her to cut out the block attempts and work on rebounding.

Just a theory.