{{short description|Jamaican basketball and netball player (born 1993)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Marvadene Anderson | image = | imagesize = | caption = | fullname = | nickname = Bubbles | nationality = Jamaican | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|5|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|m=2.12}} | weight = {{cvt|107|kg}} <!-- X kg, X lb, or X st Y lb (automatic conversion) plus optional year and reference --> | country = Jamaica | sport = Basketball, Netball | event = | club = | team = | turnedpro = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | highestranking = | pb = }} '''Marvadene (Bubbles) Anderson''' (born 1 May 1993) is a Jamaican basketball and netball player, at one time recognized as the world's tallest teenage girl at {{height|ft=6|in=11.5}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=World's tallest teenage girl: 6ft 11.5 ins, size 11 feet |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7634441/Worlds-tallest-teenage-girl-6ft-11-ins-size-11-feet.html |date=2010-04-26 |accessdate=2010-06-05}}</ref> Anderson is originally from Prospect in Clarendon Parish,<ref>{{cite news |last=Gaynor |first=Jonique |title=Tallest 14 -y-o in Jamaica? |work=The Jamaica Star Online |url=http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20080416/news/news1.html |date=2008-04-16 |accessdate=2010-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404150804/http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20080416/news/news1.html |archivedate=2010-04-04 }}</ref> where she attended Edwin Allen Comprehensive High School.<ref>{{cite news |last=Walters |first=Kimesha |title=Great prospects at Prospect |work=Jamaica Gleaner |url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080629/lead/lead7.html |date=2008-06-29 |accessdate=2010-03-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812001837/http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080629/lead/lead7.html |archivedate=2011-08-12 }}</ref> She also played in the Jamaican U16 netball team.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marvadene Anderson: Reaching for the stars |work=The Jamaica Star Online |url=http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20080418/cleisure/cleisure2.html |date=2008-04-18 |accessdate=2010-03-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519215334/http://jamaica-star.com/thestar/20080418/cleisure/cleisure2.html |archivedate=2011-05-19 }}</ref> Anderson subsequently travelled to the United States on a basketball scholarship to Rutgers Preparatory School in New Jersey.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hancel |first=Andrew |title=World's tallest teen turns basketball phenom |work=Jamaica Observer |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Worlds-tallest-teen-turns-basketball-phenom |date=2009-12-23 |accessdate=2010-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327222603/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Worlds-tallest-teen-turns-basketball-phenom |archive-date=2010-03-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
As the world's tallest teenage girl, Anderson was featured on The Learning Channel documentary ''The World's Tallest Children'', and in 2010 she was interviewed on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bogle |first=Dania |title=J'can teen netballer on Oprah show |work=Jamaica Observer |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Marvadene-Anderson_7440940 |date=2010-02-24 |accessdate=2010-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529072445/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Marvadene-Anderson_7440940 |archive-date=2010-05-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Anderson committed to play basketball at the University of Pittsburgh,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/rutgers/2011/11/06/marvadene-anderson-verbals-to-pittsburgh-womens-hoops/ | title= Marvadene Anderson verbals to Pittsburgh women’s hoops | first=Ryan | last=Dunleavy | publisher=Scarlet Scuttlebutt | date=2011-11-06 | accessdate=2011-11-06}}</ref> and redshirted during the 2012-13 season.
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