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Rebecca Greenwell

American basketball player (born 1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ28122300 ↗
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Rebecca Danielle Greenwell (born February 27, 1995) is an American basketball player.

Early life

Greenwell started playing for the Tennessee Flight, an AAU team, in seventh grade. She would go on to win three Nike Nationals championships with the program.

High school career

Greenwell attended Owensboro Catholic in Owensboro, Kentucky, where she was named to the Academic All-State team and set numerous school records. She missed her junior year after tearing her ACL at the 2011 FIBA 3x3 Under-18 World Championships. Returning for her senior season, Greenwell hit 17 3-pointers against Whitesville Trinity, breaking a national high school girls basketball record. After narrowing her list down to two, she chose to play basketball for Joanne P. McCallie at Duke University. Greenwell went on to take part in the 2013 McDonald's All-American Game, where she suffered another ACL tear. Her high school career was marked by two stints with the United States U16 and U17 national teams, with whom she won two gold medals.

College career

Greenwell elected to redshirt her freshman year at Duke after undergoing further surgery to repair her meniscus.

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The public source identifies “Rebecca Greenwell” as american basketball player (born 1995). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rebecca, Greenwell and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2011, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-02-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rebecca, Greenwell and American providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28122300. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2011 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rebecca Greenwell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.