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Missouri Arledge
Basketball
Inducted: 2022
- Averaged 31.3 points per game during her senior season at Hillside High in Durham, NC
- In 1954, became the first Black woman to play in an American Amateur Union (AAU) tournament and to be named an AAU All-American the next year
- Invited to become the first female player to join the Harlem Globetrotters, but turned it down to work in education, eventually returning to Hillside High