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 . Anderson is originally from Prospect in
Clarendon Parish, where she attended Edwin Allen Comprehensive High School. She also played in the Jamaican U16
netball team. Anderson subsequently travelled to the United States on a basketball scholarship to
Rutgers Preparatory School
Rutgers Preparatory School (also known as Rutgers Prep or RPS) is a private, coeducational, college preparatory day school established in 1766. The school educates students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, located on a campus along ...
in New Jersey.
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''. Anderson committed to play basketball at the
University of Pittsburgh,
and
redshirted during the
2012-13 season.
References
Jamaican women's basketball players
Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball players
Jamaican netball players
Living people
Sportspeople from Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Rutgers Preparatory School alumni
Centers (basketball)
1993 births
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