Background
Murriel Page was born in Louin, Mississippi in 1975.
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Murriel Page was born in Louin, Mississippi in 1975.
She attended Bay Springs High School in Bay Springs, Mississippi, where she led her Bay Springs high school basketball team to two state championships.
Page played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was drafted in the first round of the 1998 Women's National Basketball Association Draft. She played professionally for the Washington Mystics and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association.
Page accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross"s Florida Gators women"s basketball team At the end of her Gators career, Page was ranked second all-time in points (1,915), rebounds (1,251), field goal percentage (550), and free throws made (334).
She graduated from the University of Florida with her bachelor"s degree in 1998, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2009.
Several of the games were close, with the United States of America team winning four games by six points or fewer, including an overtime game in the semifinal match against Japan. The gold medal game against South of Korea was also close, but the United States of America fell 76–71 to claim the silver medal for the event.
Page was the leading scorer for the team, averaging 14.7 points per game. Page was selected third overall in the first round of the 1998 Women's National Basketball Association Draft by the Washington Mystics, where she played for eight seasons.
In March 2006, Page was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks along with Temeka Johnson in exchange for Nikki Teasley.
During the 2008–2009 Women's National Basketball Association off-season, she played in Spain with Mallorca. During the 2007-2008 off-season she played with San Jose, also in Spain. Following her retirement from professional basketball, Page become an assistant coach for the Florida Gators women"s basketball team under head coach Amanda Butler for the 2010-2011 season.