Mary Fuller Scott is the third leading scorer in Jackson State women’s basketball history. From 1976 to 1980, she scored 1,923 points. While a Lady Tiger, she was named a team MVP, received SWAC All-Tournament team awards and was an All-American.
On Oct. 4, she’ll join 12 others as they are inducted in the Jackson State University Sports Hall of Fame. The event will be held in the Student Center Ballroom at 7 p.m.
As a freshman, she scored 481 points and made 54 percent of her field goal attempts and shot 77 percent from the free throw line (85-110). She also dished out 80 assists and had 30 steals. During her sophomore year, she scored 533 points, connecting on 228 of 450 shots (50.6 percent) from the field and went 77 of 109 from the free throw line (70.6 percent). She also pulled down a career high 145 rebounds. She scored another 507 points during her junior season, in addition to recording 70 assists. As a senior, she scored 402 points and had 92 rebounds, 67 assists and a career high 83 steals.
Following her collegiate career, Fuller-Scott was drafted by the St. Louis Streak (Women’s Professional Basketball League). The WBL preceded the WNBA. Her professional basketball career ended when the WBL folded in 1981. Following the demise of the WBL, Fuller-Scott worked as a Youth Program Director. With her husband being a member of the military, her family was stationed in Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany.
She is the daughter of Sidney Fuller and Annie P. Fuller and is the wife of retired Senior Master Sgt. Roderick K. Scott. The couple are the proud parents of a daughter and son, Michelle A. Scott Sloane and Roderick K. Scott. They also have a grandson, Walter Sloane, II. She is also the sister of Lafon Fuller Wiley, who played women’s basketball at Jackson State and was inducted into the JSU Hall of Fame in 2000.
Fuller-Scott earned her undergraduate degree from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, in Physical Education with a minor in Psychology.