LaQuan Stallworth explained

LaQuan Stallworth
Position:Guard
Height Ft:5
Height In:7
Weight Lbs:145
Bbr Wnba:WNBA / Undrafted
Birth Place:Texas
Nationality:American
High School:Silsbee (Silsbee, Texas)
College:Louisiana Tech (1995–1999)
Number:10
League:FIBA
Career Start:1999
Career End:2007 (FIBA) Texas HS Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025
Coach Start:Houston Spirit /Houston Red Storm (2013-present)- ABA
Highlights:
  • Texas HS Basketball Hall of Fame Class 2025
  • All-Sun Belt Team (1998)
  • Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year (1997)
  • 3× Defensive Player of the Year
  • 1x Texas state champion game
  • 1x Texas state final four
  • NCAA champion runner-up
  • 2 Final Four / 1 Elite 8
  • Top 100 player all time in Texas
  • HS All-American
  • 4x All-State Team
  • 2x All-State Tournament Team
  • 1x TX HS Player of the Year
  • 1x Female Athlete of the Year
  • HS Newcomer of the Year
  • HS Ranked Top 20 in the Nation
  • TABC All-Star
  • USA Junior Team
  • Leading Scorer in Israel 37.8 points

LaQuan Stallworth (born May 17) is a former professional women's basketball player. She played for coach Leon Barmore and Kim Mulkey to play for Louisiana Tech University. After successful collegiate playing years, LaQuan took her talents overseas for the next 7 years.

Professional

Stallworth went to play international basketball for FIBA Maccabi Ashdod in Ashdod, Israel, Dynamo Kursk in Kursk, Russia, Switzerland, USA Junior Olympic Team, China, Germany (Halle), and Ireland for Burnell. Stallworth was on the practice squad 2 times for WNBA Houston Comets (99 and 01)undrafted WNBA. Then 3 years of playing for the Adidas Travel Team. Stallworth retired from basketball in 2009. Stallworth is coach for the Houston Spirit and Houston Red Storm ABA (2013–present). She also train and develop the youth, participate in coaching AAU.

2018 - Named Coach of the Year - Texas Basketball Association

USA

1998 Jones Cup Team

College

Attended Louisiana Tech University, LaQuan has a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Information Systems. LaTech women's basketball during her years went to 1 National championship as the runner-up, semi finals in the final four, and 2 years in the final 8 of the NCAA championships. LaQuan currently holds several records at Louisiana Tech such as Defensive Player of the Year (3 years), Most Steals in Game, #3 in Assist, #1 in Most Assist in a Game, and Most NCAA Tournaments and the 2nd Player in Tech history to record over 1000 pts and 500 assists. She holds record for Most Assist in NCAA Tournament.[1] [2]

BASKETBALL WALL OF FAME

High school

LaQuan attended Silsbee High school, which was coached by Kim Albers, started all 4 years, 2 State Tournaments Championships Runner-up and Gatorade All-American throughout all 4 years. She received awards such as MVP of District (4 years) and All-State 1st Team (4 years). Newcomer of the Year as a freshman in high school. Stallworth's high school jersey was retired in 1995. She recorded over 3,319 points in her high school career. Stallworth received the proclamation from the Mayor of Silsbee and placed on the Wall of Fame at Silsbee High School in 2016. She was named one of the Top 100 Century athletes in the State of Texas. [3] [4] She is named one of the greatest basketball player in the State of Texas.

Achievements

Career statistics

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1995–96 | style="text-align:left;" | Louisiana Tech|31||2||-||37.4||33.1||82.5||2.2||2.5||0.6||0.2||-||4.7 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1996–97 | style="text-align:left;" | Louisiana Tech|35||33||-||38.4||38.2||89.4||3.2||6.9||1.6||0.1||-||10.1|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1997–98 | style="text-align:left;" | Louisiana Tech|35||33||-||45.8||33.3||92.3||3.9||6.4||1.6||0.1||-||11.4|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1998-99| style="text-align:left;" | Louisiana Tech|35||34||-||44.5||39.1||88.5||4.4||4.8||0.6||0.2||-||12.7|-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|136||-||-||41.5||36.0||88.1||3.4||5.2||1.3||0.1||-||9.7 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[5]

Personal

LaQuan is an active member of the NAACP. She started playing basketball at the age of 4 years old. LaQuan is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Stallworth wrote, produced, and directed her own indie film "Caught Between the Two" which discusses relationship issues and it was released in 2016 on Amazon.com. Stallworth will be working on her 2nd film "Sins of a Scorned Wife" for 2017 to be released late 2017 or early 2018. It was released in May 2019. The film stars Paul Ynfante, Whitney Skye, and debuting actor Joseph “JoJo” Brooks.Stallworth also coached in the men's American Basketball Association (ABA) as the head coach for the Houston Red Storm and minor league basketball team the Houston Spirit.

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References

American Basketball Assoc -ABA

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tennessee, La. Tech: Legacies Of Success. 29 March 1998. The New York Times.
  2. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_final4/2002/005-020.pdf
  3. Web site: Home . wbca.org.
  4. Web site: LaQuan Stallworth and Stephen James to be honored inWall of Fame - The Silsbee Bee.
  5. Web site: LaQuan Stallworth College Stats. Sports-Reference. July 7, 2024.
  6. Web site: Houston Red Storm basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details - usbasket.com.
  7. Web site: LaQuan Stallworth. IMDb.
  8. Web site: Caught Between the Two. 1 June 2016. IMDb.
  9. Web site: Watch Caught Between The Two online - Amazon Video. Amazon.
  10. Web site: Home - CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO.
  11. Web site: LQ Stallworth (Stallworth INC) (@lqstallworth) • Instagram photos and videos.