University of Tennessee Athletics
2010-11 Women's Basketball Roster
Roster
Lauren Avant
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Memphis, Tenn.
The second player from Memphis to play basketball for the Lady Vols...Committed to Tennessee when she was 14...Rated the 28th-best prospect in the nation by ESPNU Hoopgurlz 100...Picked to play in the 2010 WBCA High School All-America game...Injured in a car accident in March of 2009, her shoulder required surgery, and she only played in eight games during her senior season, averaging 15.4 ppg for those contests...Team went 7-1 in games she played in that year...Honored by Lausanne at the end of her junior year as they retired her No. 24 jersey...Averaged 15.7 ppg, 8 rpg, 6.6 apg and 5.8 spg for her career...Posted 90 career double-doubles, seven triple-doubles, and one quadruple-double...During her junior season, she averaged 15.2 ppg, 9 rpg, 7.8 apg, 8 spg and 2.1 bpg while guiding Lausanne to a 30-4 record and a runner-up finish in the TSSAA Division 2 state tournament...Tabbed a Parade Magazine Fourth-Team All-American and Street & Smith[apos]s All-American in 2009...Selected Division 2-A Miss Basketball in 2008 and 2009...Led Lausanne to the TSSAA Division 2 state title with a 32-3 record in 2008 averaging 13.5 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 6.5 apg, 6 spg and 1.4 bpg...Voted onto the TSWA and TSSAA Division 2 All-State team in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009...Featured in the 2008 Sports Illustrated 'Where Will They Be?' photo series...Named ESPN RISE Underclassman and EA Sports Player of the Year for her freshman and sophomore campaigns...Averaged 15 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 6.2 apg and 6.0 spg as a freshman in 2007...Compiled averages of 12.6 ppg, 7 rpg, 5.5 apg and 4.0 spg in her first varsity season in eighth grade in 2006...Displayed in a 2007 TIME magazine publication called 'Courting Eighth-Graders'...Earned a spot, as well as captain honors, on Lausanne[apos]s varsity team in eighth grade, maintaining her status of captain through all five years...Totaled 2,104 points, 1,072 rebounds, 881 assists and 770 steals for her prep career.
Played on Team Memphis Elite...Contributed to Elite[apos]s three consecutive AAU Tennessee state championships in 2007, 2008 and 2009...Named Most Valuable Player after Elite won the 2008 15U National Championship...Also was part 16U National Championship in 2009.
Lauren is currently enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences with a pre-medicine concentration...Entering her freshman year at Tennessee, she already had 30 college credit hours obtained in high school...Aspires to be an Orthopedic Specialist...Was a member of National Honor Society and Beta Club...Graduated high school summa cum laude...Enjoys volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and Peer Mentoring...Lists 'only school for me' and 'bleeding orange since birth' as the reasons for choosing Tennessee... Models her game after Tamika Catchings and Kara Lawson...Lauren Ashley Avant was born March 4, 1992 in Memphis, Tenn....Her mother is Dana Avant.
