Who is tahnee robinson

Ad Blocker Detected. Thanks for visiting! Thank you for your support! Learn More About Ad Blockers. She carried Sheridan to a Conference Championship, and then on to the Regional Tournament, which consisted of 4 straight games, to earn a Nationals bid.

Robinson began to attract interest from multiple four-year universities, including the University of Nevada, Reno.

Jane Albright, Head Coach at Nevada at the time, first heard of Robinson through Jim House, assistant football coach at the time for the Wolf Pack, who grew up in Wyoming, he also played and coached for the University of Wyoming. Robinson was focused on the Nationals bid, and would not meet with most of the schools reaching out. Finally after waiting for weeks, Coach Albright got a call, it was from Robinson, they had just lost in the National Tournament, and she was ready to talk.

Albright rearranged her schedule and got on a plane headed for Wyoming. Albright and her recruiting team traveled to Wyoming to meet with Robinson and her family. After spending the day together Albright was invited back to the reservation with Robinson and her parents.

And she was right, Robinson agreed to play at Nevada, nearly miles from her reservation. Her grades were in trouble because of the time spent at Wyoming and Sheridan, not to mention the time she took off to take care of her newborn. She had to get eligible in order to play, and it was not going to be easy.

Robinson needed a program that believed in her, and would make sure she was getting the proper education. Nevada needed a dynamic player to lead the team. It was a perfect match, that led to great success. After getting all of her classes taken care of Robinson was finally eligible to play. She did not travel to her first game with the team, as she had to wait until she was officially cleared, but finally she was good to go, and ready to play in her first game for the Wolf Pack.

Robinson was named co-captain for the rest of her junior year, and finished the season averaging around 16 PPG. Upon conclusion of the season, Robinson began training with a new trainer who took her game to the next level. She accomplished this all with a bad back injury that often kept her out of practices throughout the second half of the season. Williams was impressed by the way Robinson overcame the things that stood in her way.

Being a young single mother who is trying to be a collegiate student-athlete would keep a lot of careers from taking off, but Robinson worked hard enough to avoid that.

Mary's in the same year. A third-round pick by the Phoenix Mercury in , Robinson never appeared in a WNBA game but did play four professional seasons overseas. After spending the last two years as a graduate assistant for the Nevada women's basketball team, Robinson was promoted this summer to director of player development under first-year coach Amanda Levens. Robinson is the second member of the Wolf Pack to be charged with domestic battery, first in the last year.

In November, Nevada basketball player Elijah Foster was charged with the same offense.