Education
Pahokee High School.
Pahokee High School.
She played collegiately for the Miami Hurricanes of the University of Miami, where she majored in sports administration. Riquna"s nickname is Bay Bay. She is the youngest of five children.
As a senior in high school she averaged 32.5 points per game (ppg) at Pahokee High School.
As a freshman at the University of Miami she averaged 8.7 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, including a season high of 23 points against Clemson. She was first discovered during the summer going into her senior year of high school playing for Team Breakdown.
She emerged as one of the best scorers in the country in her sophomore year, and averaged 19.6 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. She was named to the All-Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Second Team her sophomore year
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She was selected in the second round of the 2012 Draft (17th overall) by the Tulsa Shock. During the 2012/13 European basketball season, Riquna played first in Good Angels Košice in Slovakia.
Later in the season she played for Hapoel Rishon Lezion in Israel, and helped the team to retain its place in Israel"s first women basketball league.
During the season 2013/2014, she played for Virtus Eirene Ragusa in Italy.
Williams was named to the pre-season Wooden watch list, a list of players under consideration for the John R. Wooden Award, which will be presented to the outstanding player of the year at the end of the season. On September 8, 2013, Williams set the record for most points in a single game with 51, and tied the record for most three-point field goals in a single game, with 8, in a 98-65 win over the San Antonio Silver Stars. Later that month, she was named as the 2013 Sixth Woman of the Year.
