Fran Belibi and the Dunk Heard Round the World

Two years ago, a sophomore from Regis Jesuit became the first female to throw down in a Colorado high school basketball game. Here’s how the moment became a viral sensation.

Shane Monaghan, 5280.com, January 14, 2019

When Fran Belibi began playing basketball during her freshman year at Aurora’s Regis Jesuit High School, she wasn’t aware that women almost never dunk. That naïveté served her well. During a January 2017 game against Grand Junction High School, the then sophomore became the first female to throw down in a Colorado high school game. After the contest, which Regis won, the dunk became a viral sensation, with many designating Belibi as the future of women’s basketball. (Her hype went supernova this month, when on January 12 the 6-1 senior became the first high schooler in the country to catch and finish an alley-oop during a game). Before Belibi heads off to Stanford later this year, those
who were there take a look back the phenom’s first historic slam.

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