Palin, who played point guard, was the team's captain her senior year, and scored the final point - a free-throw - of the 1982 state championship game that Wasilla won against Anchorage.

To this day, pretty much every time I see Rip Hamilton, I tease him about how we beat him my senior year on the way to the state championship, just me and a bunch of doctors and lawyers.

Their team came out of nowhere and won the state championship.