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| Date | March 31, 2002 | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Madison Square Garden, New York, New York | ||||||||||
| MVP | Ann Strother & Shanna Zolman | ||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||
| McDonald's All-American | |||||||||||
The 2002 McDonald's All-American Girls Game was an all-star basketball game that was played at Madison Square Garden in New York. [1] The game's rosters featured the best and most highly recruited high school girls graduating in the class of 2002. The game was the 1st annual version of the McDonald's All-American Game. The 20 players were selected from over 700 nominees by a committee of basketball experts. They were chosen not only for their on-court skills, but for their performances off the court as well. [2]
The roster was announced on February 27, 2002. [3]
| Name | Height | Position | Hometown | High school | College choice |
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| LaTangela Atkinson | 6–0 | SF | Bishopsville, South Carolina | Lee Central | North Carolina |
| Seimone Augustus | 6–2 | SG | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Capitol | LSU |
| Mistie Bass | 6–3 | PF | Janesville, Wisconsin | George S. Parker | Duke |
| Dawn Chriss | 6–2 | PF | Hillcrest Heights, Maryland | St. Johns College | Virginia Tech [4] |
| Kate Dessart-Mager | 6–0 | SF | Media, Pennsylvania | Cardinal O'Hara (PA) | Villanova [5] |
| Gillian Goring | 6–7 | SF | Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago | Waterloo West | UConn [6] |
| Lindsay Richards | 5–9 | PF | Barrington, Illinois | Barrington | Iowa [7] |
| Johanna Solverson | 6–3 | SF | Lake Zurich, Illinois | Lake Zurich | Iowa [8] |
| Kasha Terry | 6–3 | C | Douglasville, Georgia | Douglas County (GA) | Georgia Tech |
| Nicole Wolff | 5–11 | SG | Walpole, Massachusetts | Walpole | UConn [9] |
| Shanna Zolman | 5–10 | PG | Syracuse, Indiana | Wawasee | Tennessee |
| Name | Height | Position | Hometown | High school | College choice |
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| Nikki Blue | 5–7 | PG | Bakersfield, California | West (CA) | UCLA |
| Janice Bright | 5–9 | SG | Los Angeles, California | Lynwood | Cincinnati State Technical [10] |
| Wilnett Crockett | 6–3 | SF | Harbor City, California | Narbonne | UConn [11] |
| Tye'sha Fluker | 6–5 | C | Pasadena, California | John Muir | Tennessee |
| Erin Grant | 5–7 | PG | Arlington, Texas | Mansfield (TX) | Texas Tech [12] |
| Alexis Kendrick | 5–7 | SG | Inglewood, California | St. Bernard | Georgia [13] |
| Tamika Kursh | 6–1 | PF | Fort Smith, Arkansas | Ft. Smith Northside | Louisiana Tech [14] |
| Courtney LaVere | 6–3 | PF | Ventura, California | Buena (CA) | Notre Dame [15] |
| Nina Norman | 5–7 | PG | Houston, Texas | Jersey Village | Texas [16] |
| Brooke Smith | 6–3 | C | San Anselmo, California | Marin Catholic | Duke |
| Ann Strother | 6–1 | SG | Castle Rock, Colorado | Highlands Ranch | UConn |
| Ruby Vaden | 6–2 | C | Osceola, Arkansas | Osceola (AR) | Arkansas [17] |