As ladies’s faculty basketball continues to see an astronomical rise in recognition, Duke is in place to make some noise with the addition of Toby Fournier. She threw down a dunk in apply that will blow the roof off of Cameron Indoor Stadium if the true freshman ahead was to throw it down throughout a sport.
Keep tuned as a result of the Blue Devils are going to be a whole lot of enjoyable to look at.
Toby Fournier was a five-star prospect within the recruiting Class of 2024. The 6-foot-2 Toronto-native ranked because the No. 10 participant within the nation and a top-five participant at her place. It’s not exhausting to see why!
Despite the fact that Fournier is at her finest as a defender on the wing and has but to even play an official sport, she is already the most effective dunker in ladies’s basketball on any degree— highschool, faculty or professional. Her highschool spotlight tapes are an excellent reflection of the high-flying, shot-blocking, rim-rattling phenom.
Solely eight ladies’s faculty basketball gamers have jammed throughout a Division I sport:
Brittney Griner, Baylor — 18 dunks
Candace Parker, Tennessee — 7 dunks
Michelle Snow, Tennessee — 3 dunks
Fran Belibi, Stanford — 3 dunks
Georgeann Wells, West Virginia — 2 dunks
Charlotte Smith, North Carolina — 1 dunk
Sancho Lyttle, Houston — 1 dunk
Sylvia Fowles, LSU — 1 dunk
All 36 dunks had been an enormous deal. Crowds went bananas.
Fournier goes to be the ninth participant in historical past to throw down in a sport. It’s a matter of when, not if, and what number of. There may be additionally a excessive chance that Duke shall be chargeable for the first-ever alley-oop dunk in ladies’s hoops historical past. The Blue Devils have been engaged on the play throughout apply.
Fifth-year senior level guard Vanessa de Jesus kissed an help off of the glass earlier this week that arrange her new teammate completely for the dunk. Fournier adopted shut behind and slammed it dwelling!
Think about if Duke was in a position to pull that off throughout, say, the fourth quarter of a single-digit sport in opposition to North Carolina. The Cameron Crazies would go bonkers. Toby Fournier goes to be a family identify!
