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Teshymia Tillman
DOMINATE
12 THE LAKER CONNECTION
by Lauren Graves
“Play your role and stay coachable. Never believe you’re great – always want to get better. Stay focused, set goals and, most of all, dominate.”
That’s the advice graduating senior Teshymia Tillman leaves behind for the Clayton State women’s basketball team. Tillman ended her Lakers career as a NCAA Division II national champion and as the “Elite Eight” Most
Valuable Player. Her final season at Clayton State marks a milestone in a life she’s devoted to the game.
Tillman started
her journey to national
champion when she
was six years old in
her hometown of High
Point, NC. “The guys
in the neighborhood en- couraged me growing up. My earliest basketball memory is from when I was about seven when I met Mrs. Bee at the Boys
Left: Tillman goes for the basket during the NCAA Division II championship game in St. Joseph’s, MO.
