WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- Former Johnson C. Smith women's basketball
player Tiana Pope was killed in a single-car wreck in Winston-Salem Wednesday
morning.
According to a university statement,
Winston-Salem police reported Pope, 27, was speeding before she crashed her 2010
Chevrolet Aveo into a utility pole in the 500 block of Oak Summit Road at 2:45
a.m. She died at the scene. The car went off the right side of the road and
police asserted speeding was a contributing factor in the wreck.
Police are still investigating.
Pope, who lived in Kernersville, played
guard at JCSU from 2003-07. She scored 1,184 points, pulled down 413 rebounds,
and was credited with 271 assists, and 206 steals. The Golden Bulls won CIAA
Western Division titles in 2005, ‘06 and ‘07.
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