Michelle has been
tabbed by a variety of publications for preseason
All-America honors...After finishing
as one of 15 finalists for the Naismith
College Player of the Year award last season,
Michelle is a headliner on the 2002
list...Spent the summer serving an internship
with the WNBA's Washington
Mystics...
TENNESSEE 2000-01:
After dunking in warmups
throughout her sophomore year,
Michelle didn't wait long as a junior to
jam...Her first career dunk in a game came
in the third contest of the 2000-01 season
when her two-handed slamming, hanging
on the right side of the rim jam, occurred
with 10 seconds left before halftime of the
title game at the Women's Maui
CAREER HIGHS:
Points: 24 vs. South Carolina (1-14-00)*
Rebounds: 17 vs. Mississippi State (2-6-99)
Assists: 5 vs. Mississippi (2-8-01)
Steals: 4 vs. Louisiana State (1-6-00)
Blocks: 7 vs. Rutgers (3-31-00)
*Indicates most recent high
2000-01 SEASON HIGHS:
Points: 21 vs. Kentucky (1-21-01)
Rebounds: 14 vs. Arizona State (12-27-00)
Assists: 5 vs. Mississippi (2-8-01)
Steals: 3 vs. Vanderbilt (2-22-01)*
Blocks: 5 vs. Memphis (12-15-00)
* Indicates most recent high
CAREER NCAA:
Tournament Highs
Points: 16 vs. St. Mary's (3-18-01)
Rebounds: 9 vs. Virginia (3-25-00)
Assists: 1 vs. St. Mary's (3-18-01)*
Steals: 2 vs. Appalachian St. (3-13-99)
Blocks: 7 vs. Rutgers (3-31-00)
* Indicates most recent high
Tournament against Illinois on Nov. 25,
2000...She stepped up to steal the ball at
the high post and sailed all the way to the
bucket...In flight, she jammed the ball
through the hoop with both hands and then
hung on the rim to put an exclamation point
on the dunk...The dunk was the first by a
woman captured on live television...The
junior post became just the second
women's player to record two dunks in a
season when she threw one down against
Vanderbilt in Nashville on Jan. 23,
2001...Her second jam came with seven
seconds remaining in a game that the Lady
Vols led, 68-61, prior to the slam...In the
designed play to either a post or a guard,
Kara Lawson took the ball out on Vandy's
baseline and rifled a 60-foot Peyton
Manning-type pass to Michelle who was
breaking to the basket from halfcourt...She
deposited the two-handed slam, sent the
crowd into a frenzy, and then was whistled
for a technical foul by official Patty
Broderick for lingering on the rim too
long...With that dunk, she joined 6'7"
Georgeann Wells from the University of
West Virginia as the only women to dunk
twice during a season (Wells dunked first
on Dec. 21, 1984, and again later that
same month)...As a junior, Michelle played
in 33 games and started 28...She averaged
11.1 ppg, 6.8 rpg and blocked 1.4
shots per contest...UT's most accurate
shooter at .572 from the field...Turned in
20 games in double-figures scoring and six
games of extra-digit rebounds...Her five
double-doubles as a junior gives her 11 for
her Lady Vol career...Became the 25th
Lady Vol all-time to register 1000 career
points...Joined the exclusive club with a
19-point performance in her home state of
Florida with a 103-73 victory over the Lady
Gators...Had her first collegiate buzzerbeater
with the game-winning shot with 0.1
of a second remaining to help the Lady
Vols to defeat LSU, 75-73...Called her 18
point, 11 rebound performance against
Stanford as her best all-around game of the
season...Snagged 14 rebounds in the
outdoors game against Arizona State at
the BankOne Ballpark "to stay warm"...
Michelle was named as an Honorable
Mention All-America by the Associated
Press...Selected by the coaches to the first
team All-SEC...She was one of three finalists
for the "Women's Center of the Year"
as presented by ESPN: The Magazine...
Was a finalist for the Naismith College
Player of the Year award...
TENNESSEE 1999-00:
Michelle played in 37 games and recorded
33 starts...Averaged 11.8 ppg, grabbed
6.3 rpg and rejected 1.3 shots per contest...
Tallied 25 games in double-figure
scoring and three games in extra digit
rebounding...Now has six career doubledoubles...
Best all-around game as a
sophomore came against UConn in
Knoxville as Michelle tossed in 21 points
and grabbed a dozen rebounds...Recorded
a "mini-dunk" in the NCAA Mideast
Regional Championship game versus
Texas Tech...Opted for the safer finger roll
at the last second...In one stretch in
January 2000, Michelle scored more than
20 points in four back-to-back games: tallying
22 versus LSU, 21 against UConn and
a career high 24 apiece versus Arkansas
and South Carolina...Calls her effort in the
2000 SEC Tournament her best career
stretch of games as she earned a spot
on the All-SEC Tournament team...
Connected on 75% of her shots from the
floor (24-32) while averaging 12.3 ppg in
the tourney...Was voted to the All-SEC
second team for the regular season...
Swatted an NCAA Final Four semifinal
record seven shots against Rutgers...
Ranked third in the SEC in blocked shots
for 2000...Finished her sophomore campaign
ranked fourth all-time on the UT lists
in field goal percentage (.572) and eighth in
blocked shots (93)...
TENNESSEE 1998-99:
As a rookie,
Michelle played in all 34 games and earned
16 starts...She averaged 8.5 ppg and 6.4
rpg...Also added 1.4 blocks per game...
Turned in 13 games of double-figure scoring
and four games with extra-digit
rebounds...Tallied three double-doubles in
her first campaign...Grabbed a career-high
17 rebounds against Mississippi State,
which was the third-best performance by a
Lady Vol freshman...With her arms
stretched above her head, Michelle
extends to a full 7'10" - it is no wonder that
she rejected five shots against Boston
College in the NCAA Tournament...That
mark is second-best ever by a Lady Vol
rookie and ranked her fifth in blocks in the
Southeastern Conference...Connected on
60% of her field goal tries which ranked her
third in the SEC...Michelle ranks fifth alltime
in a single season for field goal accuracy
with that mark...Earned her first UT
career start at Ole Miss when Teresa Geter
was injured...Was a shoo-in for All-SEC
Rookie honors but the conference did
not pick a team in 1999...Michelle did
earn a spot on the All-SEC Tournament
team...Shot 66% from the floor in three
games and capped off her tournament
showing with a 14-point and nine-rebound
effort in the title game versus
Georgia...Third tallest player ever for UT.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Michelle was a four-year
letterwinner at Pensacola and was team
captain her senior year...Also participated on the
track team, placing in regionals her junior year, and
played handball...Voted Florida's "Miss Basketball"
for 1998...Averaged 22.0 points, 15.7 rebounds, 3.7
assists, 4.8 blocks and 3.6 steals her senior season...
Finished her high school career with 2,449
points and 1,456 rebounds to average 23.3 points
and 13.9 rebounds per game...Helped Pensacola to a
26-2 record her senior year, reaching the state semifinals
before losing to eventual champion Lake
Mary...Squad listed as high as 10th in the USA
TODAY poll...Named state's Class 6A Player of the
Year...Garnered Street & Smith's All-America honors...
A Parade All-America selection and played in
the 1998 NIKE/WBCA High School All-America
game...Collected MVP honors at the 1997 Florida
State Tournament and was named first-team all-state
after leading Pensacola to the state title and a 26-0
record...Recorded a triple-double at the regional tournament
(24 points, 18 rebounds and 12 blocked
shots)...Team claimed back-to-back district championships,
1997 and 1998, and back-to-back regional
titles, 1996 and 1997...Pensacola squad remained
undefeated at home throughout her final two seasons...
Twice selected as All-Northwest Florida Player
of the Year and earned all-state honors throughout
her high school career...Selected to the Boo Williams
All-State basketball team three times.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL:
Played on the 2000
USA William R. Jones Cup Team that won the gold
medal in Taipei, Taiwan...Michelle came up big with
11 points off the bench in the win over Japan in the
semifinal game and tallied 11 rebounds in the gold
medal game over Malaysia...Was invited to the 1999
U.S. Junior National Team trials but did not make the
team...Member of USA Basketball's 19-and-under
squad that claimed the 1998 world championship,
held in Shreveport, La., in July...USA team posted
victories over Canada, Haiti and Antigua before topping
Estonia in the title game.
PERSONAL:
Michelle plans on pursuing a degree in
psychology...Credits high school coach Alison Davis
as being her biggest sports influence...Listed on
Pensacola's honor roll her sophomore through senior
years...Graduated in top 15 percent of her class
with a 3.6 grade point average...Graduated from
Pensacola's Health Academy with high honors...
Received recognition in English and American history...
Was member of school's student government,
student advisory committee and part of Pensacola's
Phi Slamma Jamma slam dunk club, and was active
in the Health Services program and Future Business
Leaders of America...Lists winning the state tournament
her junior year as her biggest sports
thrill...Enjoys reading, sleeping, eating, poetry,
sports and spending time with friends...Has patterned
her career after Chamique Holdsclaw and
Vicky Bullett...Plays the trombone...Oldest of five
siblings, including two brothers, Michael, 20, and
Desmond, 12, and two sisters, Rosalyn, 16, and
April,15...Donette JéMichelle Snow was born on
March 20, 1980, in Pensacola, Fla....Goes by
Michelle or nickname "Shell"...Her parents are
Michael and Rosa Snow.
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