Betty Booker

Position:
Guard
Height:
5-5
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Hampshire, Tenn.

Career
Betty Booker arrived on the Memphis campus in the fall of 1976 and over the next four years, completely rewrote the Lady Tiger basketball record book. Playing for coach Mary Lou Johns, she started every game as a freshman and averaged 20.2 points per contest in leading her team to a 27-9 record. During the 1977-78 campaign the pure-shooting guard scored 730 points for a 19.7 point per game average. The team posted a 29-9 record. As a junior, Booker averaged 21.6 points per contest in leading her team to a 26-7 mark. In her final year of competition and the team’s first season in the Metro Conference, Booker scored 662 points (21.4 average). She was named to the Metro Conference All-Tournament team and received tournament MVP honors. Booker finished her career scoring 2,835 points which still stands as the school record after 29 years. She averaged over 20 points per game during her career and totaled 308 assists and 360 steals. Booker scored a career high 41 points against Middle Tennessee State and had 40 points against Central Missouri State. Her 1,203 field goals made remains a career record as does her 20.7 career scoring average. Her name appears 23 times in the Lady Tiger basketball record book. Now an assistant principal in the Memphis City School System, Booker had her jersey number 31 retired by the University of Memphis.