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- NAME: Teresa Edwards
- OCCUPATION: Basketball Player
- BIRTH DATE: July 19, 1964 (Age: 48)
- EDUCATION: University of Georgia
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Cairo, Georgia
- ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer
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Teresa Edwards is an American basketball player best known for winning five Olympic medals in women’s basketball including four gold and one bronze.
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Play NowTeresa Edwards. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 04:10, Jun 19, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/teresa-edwards-40770.
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Teresa Edwards. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/teresa-edwards-40770. Accessed Jun 19, 2013.
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Teresa Edwards is an American basketball player born on July 19, 1964, in Cairo, Georgia. The female guard played basketball at the University of Georgia where she was honored as an All-American in 1984 and 1985. At the Olympics, she won four gold medals (1984, 1988, 1996, 2000) – an Olympic record -- and a bronze medal (1992). Edwards also won the USA Basketball Player of the Year in 1987 and 1991.
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