Murriel Page
LaMurriel Page is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a forward and center in the Women's National Basketball Association for eleven seasons. Page played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was drafted in the first round of the 1998 WNBA draft. She played professionally for the Washington Mystics and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. Currently, she is an assistant women's basketball coach at Miami Hurricanes.
Early years
Murriel Page was born in Louin, Mississippi in 1975. She attended Bay Springs High School in Bay Springs, Mississippi, where she led her Bay Springs high school basketball team to two state championships.College career
Page accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team. At the end of her Gators career, Page was ranked second all-time in points, rebounds, field goal percentage, and free throws made. She graduated from the University of Florida with her bachelor's degree in 1998, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2009.Florida statistics
Source| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| 1994–95 | Florida | 33 | 349 | 61.4% | 0.0% | 52.2% | 7.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 10.6 |
| 1995–96 | Florida | 30 | 432 | 48.6% | 0.0% | 62.9% | 9.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 14.4 |
| 1996–97 | Florida | 33 | 522 | 54.3% | 0.0% | 59.9% | 10.3 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 15.8 |
| 1997–98 | Florida | 32 | 612 | 57.1% | 16.7% | 67.3% | 12.6 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 19.1 |
| TOTALS | Florida | 128 | 1915 | 55.0% | 16.7% | 61.5% | 9.8 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 15.0 |