DeShawne Blocker

Women's basketball

ETSU (1991-95)

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Bio

DeShawne Blocker, who earned All-America honorable mention after her junior and senior seasons, led the NCAA in total rebounds with a SoCon single-season record 450 in 1993-94, while her average of 17.3 per contest not only led the NCAA but still ranks fourth in a season in NCAA history and second in a season in SoCon history, 28 years later. She had the NCAA single-game high for rebounds in 1992-93 with 25 against Marshall and in 1993-94 with 28 against Covenant, which remains a SoCon single-game record.
 
The Augusta, Georgia, native finished her career with 2,086 points, which is third in ETSU program history and tied for seventh in SoCon history, and a career average of 19.5 points per game, which ranks fifth in league annals. Blocker totaled 1,361 rebounds (third in SoCon history), with her career average of 12.7 boards per game ranking eighth in NCAA Division I history at the end of her career and 12th today. That mark remains second in SoCon history nearly three decades later, while her career 59.8 field-goal percentage is third in SoCon history.
 
The 1991-92 SoCon Freshman of the Year, the 1992-93 and 1994-95 SoCon Player of the Year and the league’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1994-95, Blocker is one of just five women’s basketball players in league history to earn first-team All-SoCon honors four times.
 
She was the SoCon tournament Most Outstanding Player in 1995, despite the regular-season champion Bucs falling to Furman in the title game, 88-85. Blocker’s 1994-95 squad went on the play in the postseason in the National Women’s Invitational Tournament.
 
Following her collegiate career, she played professionally for three years in Spain, Greece, Austria and Finland. She would later return to ETSU as an assistant coach.
 
Blocker was named to the SoCon’s 25th Anniversary Team celebrating a quarter century of women’s athletics in 2007-08 and earned a spot on the 100th Anniversary Team as the league celebrated its centennial in 2021. She was inducted into ETSU’s Hall of Fame in 2005.
 
Blocker becomes the fifth women’s basketball player to be enshrined in the SoCon Hall of Fame and the first from ETSU.

Blocker says:

“I’m excited about being awarded such an honor. To be listed among some of the best in the conference, it speaks volumes, and I would not have been able to receive such an award without some amazing teammates and coaches and family backing. I’m just so thankful.”

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