Total Stand-out

Whangarei basketballer Megan Craig, who was Kamo High School’s Sportswoman of the Year in 28, is now at the University at Albany, studying business management. At a listed 6-foot-9, when Craig takes the court as expected next season, she will be one of the tallest female players in US college basketball. First-year UAlbany coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson never met Craig until her campus visit last November. All the coach had seen of Craig’s game had been tape. It was enough. “I didn’t have to watch very much,” Abrahamson-Henderson said. “The way she ran the floor and the way she is very coordinated, I was like ‘whoa’.”