Education
Lincoln High School.
Lincoln High School.
She played in two seasons of the Women's National Basketball Association before retiring to a monastic life. Aycock was recruited in 1991 from Lincoln High School in Dallas, Texas to play college basketball for the University of Kansas (Kansas Jayhawks). In her sophomore year, she was named team captain.
As a junior, she was the Big Eight Conference co-player of the year.
In her senior year, she made several All-America teams. By the end of her college career she had scored 1,978 points for Jayhawks, the third highest total in the team"s history.
She also turned out for the United States of America Women"s U18 and U19 teams, in 1992 and 1993. Early in her professional career, Aycock played two full seasons and part of a third for the Seattle Reign in the now-defunct American Basketball League.
She also traveled overseas to compete in Italy, Greece, Spain, France and South of Korea.
In her short stint with the Women's National Basketball Association she saw game time with the Phoenix Mercury, the Minnesota Lynx and the Seattle Storm. Overall she featured in 98 games for the American Basketball League, and in 12 for the Women's National Basketball Association.
She took the name Sister Paula, and was subsequently cloistered at the Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Convent in Bluffton, Canada. In mid 2003 she transferred to another convent, the location of which is not known.
In February 2003, Aycock made the journey from her Bluffton convent to the KU campus in Lawrence, Kansas to see her jersey (Number 12) retired.