Tia Paschal

{{short description|American basketball player}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2011}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Tia Paschal | number = | position = Forward | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 1 | team = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|March 22, 1969}} | birth_place = Thomson, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | high_school = Thomson High School <br/> Thomson, Georgia | college = Florida State (1989–1993) | career_start = | career_end = | career_position = | career_number = |years1 = {{WNBA Year|1998}} |team1 = Charlotte Sting | highlights = * First-team All-ACC (1993) }} '''Tia Paschal''' (born March 22, 1969) is an American retired women's basketball player.<ref>{{cite news|last=Monigan|first=Thomas|title=South Topples North at Girls All-Star Game|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0OgvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Rj8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3485,2307586&dq=tia+paschal&hl=en|accessdate=1 February 2011|newspaper=Bartow Press|date=3 August 1988}}</ref> Paschal played collegiately at Florida State University (FSU).<ref>{{cite book|title=Seminole gold: fifty years of sports at Florida State|year=1996|publisher=Longstreet Press|location=Marietta, GA|isbn=978-1-56352-332-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Zfq42zcSAUC&q=Tia+Paschal|author=Philip L. Ben|accessdate=1 February 2011|page=142}}</ref> She was a 3-year starter for FSU, from 1989 to 1993. Over her career, she helped lead the team to two consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances: in 1989-90 and 1990–91, as well as a Metro Conference championship in the 1990–91 season.

Paschal held the records for points in a game (38), free throws made (14) and attempted (19) in a game, as well as steals in a season (96) and career (269). She was also among FSU's top 10 in six season and seven career records and ranked second all-time in scoring with 1,662 points.

==Professional== Paschal played with the Charlotte Sting during the 1998 WNBA season as well as abroad with teams in Germany, Spain and Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seminoles.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=32900&ATCLID=209591464&SPID=159708&SPSID=933510|title=Florida State University Official Athletic Site|accessdate=26 December 2011}}</ref>

==Career statistics== ===WNBA=== {{WNBA player statistics legend}}

====Regular season==== {{WNBA player statistics start}} |- | align="left" | 1998 | align="left" | Charlotte |20||0||5.5||29.7||25.0||66.7||0.8||0.5||0.4||0.0||0.6||1.4 |- | align="left" | Career | align="left" | 1 year, 1 team |20||0||5.5||29.7||25.0||66.7||0.8||0.5||0.4||0.0||0.6||1.4 {{S-end}}

===College=== {{WNBA player statistics start}} |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1989–90 | style="text-align:left;" | Florida State |29||-||-||44.4||31.6||59.4||4.7||0.7||1.3||0.3||-||8.7 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1990–91 | style="text-align:left;" | Florida State |'''32'''||-||-||51.3||0.0||71.6||5.4||2.4||2.3||0.1||-||13.9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1991–92 | style="text-align:left;" | Florida State |28||-||-||50.4||14.3||'''73.7'''||6.9||'''2.7'''||2.1||0.0||-||15.7 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1992–93 | style="text-align:left;" | Florida State |27||-||-||'''52.4'''||'''33.3'''||71.6||'''7.4'''||1.7||'''3.6'''||'''0.5'''||-||'''19.4''' |- | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | '''Career''' |116||-||-||50.2||21.7||70.3||6.1||1.9||2.3||0.2||-||14.3 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/Tia-Paschal-1.html|title=Tia Paschal College Stats|publisher=Sports-Reference|accessdate=April 11, 2024}}</ref> {{s-end}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paschal, Tia}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:American women's basketball players Category:People from McDuffie County, Georgia Category:American expatriate basketball people in Luxembourg Category:American expatriate basketball people in Spain Category:American expatriate basketball people in Sweden Category:Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Charlotte Sting players Category:Florida State Seminoles women's basketball players Category:Small forwards Category:Undrafted WNBA players Category:20th-century American sportswomen