Maya Moore, A Strong Candidate For The 2012 Olympics

Perhaps the greatest female athlete to ever come out of Gwinnett County, Georgia is Uconn's 6'0 Forward Maya Moore. Moore, a rising Junior Forward on the Univ. of Connecticut Women's Basketball Team, has already been named Big East Player of the Year as a Freshman. The first basketball player in Big East Conference history, male or female, to win the award as a Freshman.

I saw Maya Moore play basketball in person while she was in high school playing for the Eagles of Collins Hill High School. I saw her play when she was a Freshman in high school. As you can imagine, she was fantastic. She was already god enough to start at most Div. l schools and certainly at any lower division college. The sky was, and still is, the limit for Maya Moore. When was the National Girls High school Player of the Year as a Senior at Collins Hill. From a selfish perspective, it's too bad she didn't go to Georgia, only 40 miles away.

I don't have room in this blog to list all of the accomplishments of Maya Moore while at Connecticut. You can pretty much sum it up like this: Moore is the best player in Women's College Basketball hands down. I don't see her staying all 4 years at UCONN. She'll probably enter the WNBA Draft of 2010, which is next year. She is definitely on track, I believe, to be a member of the 2012 Olympic Team when the games take place in London 3 years from now. All of that is my humble opinion. According to uconnhuskies.com, she is a multidimensional player who can play every position on the floor. I think WNBA scouts would agree with that assessment.

Moore is just another of the tremendous athletic talent coming out of Gwinnett County, Georgia, on the northeast side of Atlanta. If Moore makes the 2012 Olympic Team, she will be, I believe, the fourth Olympian to come out of Gwinnett along with Cindy Brogdon (Basketball, GAC, 1984 Olympian), Amanda Weir (Swimming, Brookwood, 2004 Olympian), and Eric Chanteau (Swimming, Parkview, 2008 Olympian).
Unless there is a catastrophic injury, the way she is progressing should land her a plain ride to London in 2012.