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| wnba_profile = taj_mcwilliams }} Taj McWilliams-Franklin (born October 20, 1970) is a former American professional women's basketball player, and the current head coach of the women's basketball team at Post University. In the United States, she last played the power forward position for the Minnesota Lynx. In 2013, she was named as one of two Assistant Coaches for the New York Liberty, a team which she used to play for. Born Taj McWilliams, she married Reggie Franklin in 2003 and assumed a hyphenate surname. A two-time WNBA champion and six-time all-star, McWilliams-Franklin's professional career has spanned three decades, and began before the WNBA was founded.〔(Taj turns road less travelled into WNBA stardom )〕 McWilliams-Franklin retired after 2012 season. ==College years== After attending T. W. Josey High School in Augusta, Georgia, she attended Georgia State University in 1989 and played on the school's basketball team for one season. However, McWilliams-Franklin had become pregnant during her senior year in high school, and after the coach who recruited her to Georgia State was let go, the incoming staff told her "school was no place for kids." McWilliams-Franklin moved to Austin, Texas, where a friend connected her with St. Edward's University coach Dave McKey. McWilliams-Franklin enrolled at St. Edwards as a Rhetoric major. While at St. Edward's, she set school records and individual achievements, including: *NAIA National Player of the Year in 1993. *Selected to the 1993 Kodak NAIA All-American team. *Member of the 1992 NAIA All-America second team. *Set school records for career scoring (1,837 points), most points scored for a single season (760), highest scoring average (24.5 ppg) and highest field goal percentage (.640). McWilliams-Franklin said that after her first year at St. Edward's, she had the potential opportunity to transfer to a Division I school, but declined to pursue it, because she "felt loyalty is rewarded with loyalty."〔('Mama Taj' looks after young Lynx )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taj McWilliams-Franklin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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