Carol Ann Shudlick Smith is an American former

women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ...

player at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. Shudlick played from 1990 through 1994, setting a number of school records, including a then-record 2,097 career points. Shudlick was the recipient of the 1994

Wade Trophy The Wade Trophy is an award presented annually to the best upperclass women's basketball player in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I competition. It is named after three–time national champion Delta State University coac ...

, given to the nation's best college basketball player. Shudlick Smith was later honored by the NCAA by being included in a list of 209 student-athletes listed as "NCAA Women's Basketball's Finest." She also was inducted into the University of Minnesota's M Club, the school's Hall of Fame.

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