Rhode Island's greatest high school girls basketball players
Here are 10 girls basketball players who helped define the sport at the high school level in the state. Tell us which one was the best.
Rhode Island and basketball seem to go hand-in-hand. Today, we're focusing on the 10 best high school girls basketball athletes to come out of Rhode Island high schools. Lists like this always have the inherent danger of excluding several deserving names, but it would be hard to exclude any of these choices for Top 10 high school girls basketball players to ever play in Rhode Island.
This is part of USA TODAY Sports' initiative to celebrate the 250 greatest American sports figures of all time — part of which is to spotlight the roots of the country’s sports culture — including the high school athletes. We started by looking at the local heroes of the gridiron , and last week we looked at the boys basketball players who helped define the sport in Rhode Island. This week, it's the girls basketball stars.
Here are our selections for the players who defined Rhode Island high school school girls basketball. The rankings here are less important than simply being included on the list. And be sure to take the poll at the end of the story to tell us who you think is No.
1! 1. Christina Batastini, Classical Team success didn’t find Batastini with the Purple but everyone in that era could quickly point out the state’s best talent.
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