Robelyn Garcia
| WBA Player - Shooting Guard | |||||||||
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| Born |
September 16, 1965 Phoenix, Arizona |
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| Nationality |
 American
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||
| High Schools |
Wichita East High School Enid High School |
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| Colleges |
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Dodge City Community College Friends University |
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| Allocated | 1992, to the Kansas Crusaders | ||||||||
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| Career Highlights | |
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| WBA Teams |
Kansas Crusaders (1993) Kansas City Mustangs (1994 - 1995) Tulsa Flames (1996) |
| WBA Awards | 4X WBA All-Star (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) WBA Big Six Champion (1993) WBA Championship Game MVP (1993) |
| Career Awards |
WBCBL Professional Basketball Trailblazer Award (2015) |
WBCBL Professional Basketball Trailblazer Award (2015)
DCCC Athletic Hall of Fame (2015)
WBA Gold-Star Vision Award (2017)
Robelyn Annette Garcia (born September 16, 1965, in Phoenix, Arizona) is a former collegiate All-American and professional All-Star basketball player. She was the Big Six Championship Game MVP on the Kansas Crusaders of the Women’s Basketball Association (WBA). Robelyn, nicknamed "Robbie", also led the nation in scoring while playing at Dodge City Community College where she was inducted into the 2015 Hall of Fame.
Garcia played at five different prep schools; she had a high scoring game of 56 points while playing six-on-six basketball in Oklahoma. Robelyn also played two years for Wichita East High School and was an All-State Player at Elkhart High School in Elkhart, Kansas where she led her team in scoring. She played on two All-Star teams her Senior-year including the Kansas vs Texas All-Star Challenge. In addition, she was the leading scorer in The Boot Hill High School All-State game in 1983. Garcia also played softball, soccer, volleyball, ran cross country and track and field in prep school.
Garcia had a stellar collegiate career with high scoring games of 46 and 40 points in her first year as a college player. She was a Region NJCAA All-American and led the Nation in scoring as a freshman averaging 31.5 points per game before the implementation of the three-point line in the college game. Many of her points came from beyond what would have been the three-point arc. She is the career All-time leading scorer at Dodge City College scoring 1,298 points in just two years. She has held this title for over 30 years. “At Dodge City, Garcia earned All-America honors and was ranked as one of the top junior college swing guards in the country when she averaged 28 points and five rebounds per game as a sophomore in 1984-85. She ranked as the nation's fourth-leading scorer as a sophomore.” Garcia played at The University of Nebraska her junior year and Friends University her senior year where she averaged 20 points per game and led her team and league in assists. She was a unanimous KCAC First-Team selection and NAIA Region All-Star her senior year. Friends University Lady Falcons won the KCAC conference and made the NAIA National Tournament. Her Friends University Hall of Fame Coach Jim Littell, now the head coach at Oklahoma State University, said "She's the greatest offensive talent I have ever coached. Passing, scoring, handling the ball".
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