Nearly 36 years since the first in-game dunk, Stanford’s Fran Belibi became the eighth woman in DI women’s basketball history to slam it home on Dec. 13, 2020.
That made her part of the select company of eight women who have dunked in a game.
Here are the women’s college basketball players to dunk in a game, based on reporting from from AP’s Doug Feinberg and school archives.
1. Georgeann Wells, West Virginia (1982-86)
The first women’s college basketball player to dunk in a game was Georgeann Wells. The West Virginia center threw down a right-handed jam on WVU’s home turf to take an 85-50 lead with just under 12 minutes to go on Dec. 21, 1984, in a battle against the University of Charleston.
The story of the dunk, and how a video of it was finally recovered 25 years after the fact is essential basketball history. You can read more about it and see the long-lost video on West Virginia’s web site here.
2. Charlotte Smith, North Carolina (1991-95)
Before Charlotte Smith became the head women’s basketball coach at Elon University, she claimed the…
