Emme Shearer has become the 18th Kiwi to score 1,000 points in Women’s NCAA Division I basketball.
With 3:09 left in the Portland Pilots West Coast Conference game at Santa Clara, Shearer converted a baseline in-bounds play to bring up the major milestone in her 115th appearance for the Pilots.
The former Westlake Girls High School and North Harbour wing is averaging a team high 12 points per game in her senior year. In addition, with three steals, she snared her 200th career steal in the contest – she leads the West Coast Conference in that statistical category.
Below are New Zealand’s All-Time Top-24 points scorers in Women’s NCAA Division I basketball and includes some of our finest Tall Ferns players, both past and present.
| 1,743 | *Charlisse Leger-Walker (Washington State 2020-present) |
| 1,647 | Erin Rooney (Monmouth University, 2009-11/Fordham University, 2012-14) |
| 1,624 | #Akiene-Tera Reed (Virginia Commonwealth 2017-21, USC 2021-22) |
| 1,497 | Megan Compain (St Joseph’s University, 1993-97) |
| 1,439 | Stella Beck (St Mary’s College, California 2014-18) |
| 1,291 | #Kendell Heremaia (Fordham University 2017-22) |
| 1,262 | Rhaiah Spooner-Knight (Monmouth 17-18, Utah Valley 13-16) |
| 1,249 | #Amiee Book (CSU Fullerton 2018-21, Fresno State 2021-23) |
| 1,209 | #Tegan Graham (Colgate University 2016-20, BYU 2020-22) |
| 1,195 | Micaela Cocks (University of Oregon, 2006-10) |
| 1,167 | Ashleigh Karaitiana (University of Hawaii, 2012-16) |
| 1,144 | Margaret Johns (Utah State University, 1979-83) |
| 1,096 | Jillian Harmon (Stanford University, 2005-09) |
| 1,089 | Tessa Boagni (California State University, Northridge 2014-18) |
| 1,081 | Josie Stockill (Colgate University , 2012-16) |
| 1,032 | #Krystal Leger-Walker (Washington State 2020-22, Northern Colorado 2016-19) |
| 1,006 | Chevannah Paalvast (Monmouth University, 2010-14) |
| 1,001 | *Emme Shearer (University of Portland (2020-present) |
| 944 | Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe (Hawaii 1998-00, Buffalo University, 2001-03) |
| 869 | *Tayla Dalton (St Mary’s College, 2019-present) |
| 837 | Brooke Blair (Idaho State University, 2015-18) |
| 827 | Moengaroa Subritzky (Maryland Eastern Shore 2014-17) |
| 804 | Kalani Purcell (BYU 2015-17) |
| 800 | Ashley Taia (Indiana State 2015-18) |
Note # indicates played 5 seasons taking advantage of the additional Covid year. * indicates currently at university.
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