VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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Bradford

Basketball

Inducted 2023

A prolific scorer at Oxbow High who went on to play Division I basketball at Nevada-Reno in the Big West and North Carolina in the ACC, Jasmyn ‘Jazz’ Huntington scored the second-most points in Vermont girls basketball history, with 2079 in four seasons from 1992 to 1996.

Huntington led Oxbow to three trips to the state championship game at Barre Auditorium capturing the 1993 D-II title and the 1995 D-III crown. In her last high school game, she tallied a girl’s title-game record 46 points in the Olympians 1996 D-III final loss to Windsor. It came after she scored 43 points, including the last 14 in the fourth quarter, in Oxbow’s 61-59 semifinal win over Thetford.

Coached by VSHOF inductee Mona Garone at Oxbow, she was named the Vermont Gatorade Player of the Year and ‘Miss Basketball’ for Vermont by the Burlington Free Press in both 1995 and 1996. She was the first to win the Free Press girl’s player of the year twice.

Huntington’s 2079 career points are just 35 points behind her sister Jade, a VSHOF inductee who graduated from Oxbow in 1988. Her four 40-point games are also more than any female on record. 

The 1996 Oxbow graduate would go on to play college basketball first at Nevada, then after a redshirt year, at North Carolina (1999-2000) under coaching legend Sylvia Hatchell. In her first year, at Nevada in 1996-97, she led the Wolfpack in scoring averaging 12.8 points and earned a spot on the Big West All-Rookie Team. As a sophomore, she tallied eight per game as Nevada went 19-9 and reached the conference semifinals.

In her last collegiate season at UNC she played in 32 games including five starts as the Tar Heels reached the ACC title game and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.

Huntington was inducted into the VPA Hall of Fame in 2013, and with her sister Jade, inducted to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.