Greensboro Day School Hires Alumna to Lead Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team Greensboro Day School (GDS) has hired Tamera Thorpe as its next Head Coach of the Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team. Thorpe served as an assistant coach on the 2020-21 team. Thorpe takes over a team that finished with a record of 16-6, was co-champion of the Piedmont Triad Athletic Conference (PTAC), and made it to the Final Four of the NCISAA 4A State playoffs. The team will return eight players and look to build on their success from last season. Thorpe shared her excitement about being named the Head Coach…
GDS’s Tamera Thorpe playing well at University of SC Upstate In the famous words of the great Peyton Manning at the line of scrimmage calling “Omaha, Omaha, Omaha”. Tamera Thorpe and her University of South Carolina at Upstate teammates tried an Omaha but lost 66-69 to the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the final few seconds. While USC Upstate has had a slow start to their season, Tamera Thorpe formerly of Greensboro Day, is having a good start to her 2017-18 season. She scored 22 points in a loss to Virginia Tech last weekend followed by 20 points in…
LakePoint, Ga. – USC Upstate sophomore guard Tamera Thorpe(Greensboro Day School) has been named the ASUN Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, conference officials announced this afternoon. Thorpe earns the weekly honor for the first time in her career and was also named the College Sports Madness ASUN Player of the Week. In Upstate’s 76-63 home victory over Maryland Eastern Shore on Friday, Thorpe came off of the bench and scored a career-high 27 points and was a career-best 10-for-15 from the field in 27 minutes played. She finished 6-for-8 from the free throw line and grabbed seven rebounds, one…