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This is believed to be the first slam dunk by a female athlete in Illinois. [19] On March 29, 2004, Parker won the slam dunk contest at McDonald's All-American Game , becoming the first woman to win the event and beating the likes of Josh Smith and J. R. Smith .
Hanamichi Sakuragi. Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (anime),[5] Subaru Kimura (The First Slam Dunk) (Japanese); Robert Tinkler (anime),[5] Ben Balmaceda (The First Slam Dunk) (English) Hanamichi Sakuragi (桜木 花道, Sakuragi Hanamichi) is the main protagonist of Slam Dunk, serving as Shohoku's power forward. His jersey number is 10 and he is a ...
Lisa Deshaun Leslie (born July 7, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player. She is currently the head coach for Triplets in the BIG3 professional basketball league, as well as a studio analyst for Orlando Magic broadcasts on Bally Sports Florida. In 2002, Leslie made history as the first player to dunk during a Women's ...
As part of the annual event, boys and girls compete in a slam dunk contest and a three-point shooting competition, and compete alongside All-American Game alumni in a timed team shootout. The last of these competitions replaced separate overall timed skills competitions for boys and girls. It is rare for girls to compete in the slam dunk contest.
Francesca Belibi (born July 20, 2001) is an American former basketball player. She played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal of the Pac-12 Conference where she won the NCAA championship in 2021. Prior to college, she drew national attention in high school for her dunking ability. [1][2][3][4] In 2020, she became the eighth woman to ...
Georgeann Wells is an All-American basketball player, who was active at West Virginia University (WVU) from 1982 to 1986. [2] Among her other accomplishments, Wells is notable as the first American woman to register a dunk in an official NCAA intercollegiate basketball game on December 21, 1984. [3][4][5] She did so with a regulation-sized ball ...
Hanamichi Sakuragi (Japanese: 桜木 花道, Hepburn: Sakuragi Hanamichi) is the main protagonist of Slam Dunk, a sports manga written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. Hanamichi Sakuragi is a delinquent very unpopular with girls, having been rejected an astonishing fifty times. In his first year at Shohoku High School, he falls for Haruko ...
Vince Carter dunking in 2009. A slam dunk, also simply known as a dunk, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by shoving the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. [1] It is a type of field goal that is worth two points.