ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Kanesha Hall is a lot of things.
Diva isn’t one of them.
"She’s not an in your face and some of the stuff you see anymore with shotgun three’s and this and that or whatever," Northeast head coach Will White said. "She just plays really hard."
- Kanesha Hall became the first player at Northeast to score 1,000 points
- After scoring only 40 points as a freshman, she went to work on her shot and put up most of her points her sophomore and junior seasons
- Hall started playing basketball when she was in the fourth grade
That hard work is paying off in the form of records. The Northeast High senior guard’s 20.4 points per game average last season was one of seven school records she set. This season, she did more than set a record. She made history.
Hall became the first girls basketball player at Northeast to reach the 1,000 point mark.
"I wasn’t expecting to come in and just break records," Hall said. "I was just trying to be a better basketball player."
Hall’s been playing hoops since the fourth grade. The court is her home.
"Basketball is like my escape," she said. "It’s my get away. So everything, I take it all out on the court."
It’s one thing to break records. It’s something else to forever be the answer to a trivia question. Who was the first girl to break the 1,000-point mark at Northeast High?
"Me, Kanesha Hall," she said.
Check out the video above to get the full story on Hall's history in the making.