33  Alyssia Brewer Class: Freshman Hometown: Sapulpa, Okla. High School: Sapulpa H.S. Height: 6-3 Position: Center

HIGH SCHOOL: At 6-3, Alyssia Brewer is the tallest member of the incoming Lady Vol recruiting class...Earned four varsity letters in basketball at Sapulpa High School and totaled 1,772 points, 1,067 rebounds, 382 assists, 300 steals and 458 blocks in her high school career...Named the tournament MVP and garnered player of the year honors from many publications...Member of the 2008 Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-America Team...Selected for the 2008 USA Today All-USA Third Team...Helped the West Team win the 2008 McDonald's All-America game...Named to the 2008 Slam Magazine All-America Third Team...2008 EA Sports All-America First Team selection and 2007 Second Team pick...Parade Magazine All-America Second Team in 2008 and Fourth Team in 2007...Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year (2008)...Led her 2007 Sapulpa High School squad to a 27-1 record and the class 6A state championship...Averaged 17.2 points, 9.6 rebounds and 5.1 blocks per contest her junior season...MVP of the 2007 Oklahoma 6A state tournament...In 2007, named to the Oklahoma's Best All-Tournament Team and Ray Reins Tournament's Most Outstanding Player...In 2007, Class 6A's Most Outstanding Player, Tulsa World News 6A State Tournament's Most Outstanding Player and Daily Oklahoman News' Most Outstanding Player in 2006...Metro Player of the Year in 2007...All-state first team in 2007...The two-time Frontier Conference Player of the Year led her squad to the class 6A Regional Championship all four years of high school and an overall record of 127-12.

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL: Named to the 2008 USA Women's U18 National Team...In 2007, she was selected to participate in the USA Basketball Youth Development Festival and later was named one of the top-12 players at the event, where she ranked first for rebounds (51) and tied for third in blocked shots (6) among all of the participants...Played on the Nike Team California Storm Black for summer 2006 and summer 2007 and was the Junior Olympics National Tournament Most Outstanding Player in the summer of 2005...Played AAU for the Air Oklahoma Stars in 2005 and the Lady Federal Ballerz in 2003-04.

PERSONAL: Alyssia is currently enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences, but wants to study sports medicine or media communication...Does community service, including working with the mentor program Win2, speaking at local civic organizations, visiting the Children's Hospital at Saint Francis and volunteering as a coach for the Little Chiefs Youth Basketball League...Lists Sheryl Swoopes and Cynthia Cooper as players after whom she has modeled herself...Lists Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jordan as celebrities she admires...Has two siblings: Sophie, 8 and Devin, 3...Alyssia D. Brewer was born on July 2, 1990, in Tulsa, Okla. ...Her mother is Shelley Brewer.

High School Career Stats

Games: 139
Points: 1,772
Game High Points: 35
Scoring Average: 21.9
Rebounds: 1,067
Game High Rebounds: 21
Rebound Average: 15.5
Game High Steals: 7
Game High Blocks: 7
Game-High Assists: 10