Biography of tameka johnson

Basketball has taken Temeka Johnson from her hometown of New Orleans to places all over the world. It wasn't because I didn't want to.

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So I'm ecstatic to be back and looking forward to sharing the knowledge with the girls right there in my hometown. She'll get to do so in River Ridge at Curtis, located just a mile from the Jesse Owens Gym where she first started fine-tuning her basketball skills as a kid. That played a big part in it. It's a good school with winning tradition so it was really a no-brainer.

Johnson spent this past season as head coach at McKinley in Baton Rouge, where her team finished and lost to Mt. Carmel in the semifinals of the Division I playoffs. As a player, she is one of the best to ever come out of the greater New Orleans area. A Bonnabel graduate, Johnson was a 4-time all-state selection and went as a player.

She went on to become LSU's all-time leader in assists and won the Nancy Lieberman Award as the top point guard in the nation in The Washington Mystics selected her with the No. She also played overseas and retired in But if you want to make God laugh, tell him what your plans are. So here I am. Johnson replaces Barbara Farris, who accepted an assistant coaching position at Stetson University.