Alisa Marzatte Burras is a former women's basketball

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 player. She played for Westark Community College in Fort Smith

Fort Smith, Arkansas

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, Arkansas

Arkansas

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 from 1994 to 1996 and helped lead the Lady Lions to the 1995 JUCO National Championship. She left Westark with school records for points (1481), rebounds (534), and blocks (121). Legendary coach Leon Barmore

Leon Barmore

Leon Barmore is a college women's basketball coach. He coached at Louisiana Tech University from 1982 to 2002, serving the first three years as co-head coach with Sonja Hogg, who had begun the program in 1974 at the invitation of university president F. Jay Taylor...

 offered Burras a scholarship to play for Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...

, and she played with the Lady Techsters

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 from 1996 to 1998. Burras led LA Tech to the NCAA Championship Game in 1998 but lost to Tennessee

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 93-74. In the championship game, she posted 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Lady Techsters. During her two seasons at LA Tech, the Lady Techsters compiled a 62-8 record. Burras was drafted in the first round (fifth overall) by the Colorado Xplosion

Colorado Xplosion

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 in the 1998 ABL Draft. When the ABL folded, she was signed by the WNBA and allocated to the Cleveland Rockers

Cleveland Rockers

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 on May 11, 1999. After the 1999 season, Burras was selected in the first round (fourth overall) of the December 1999 WNBA Expansion Draft by the Portland Fire

Portland Fire

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. She played for the Fire for 3 seasons until the franchise folded and was then selected in the first round (ninth overall) of the 2003 WNBA Dispersal Draft by the Seattle Storm

Seattle Storm

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. Burras retired after the 2003 season.