Fran Belibi

Francesca Belibi (born July 20, 2001) is an American former basketball player. She played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal of the Pac-12 Conference where she won the NCAA championship in 2021. Prior to college, she drew national attention in high school for her dunking ability.^[1][2][3][4] In 2020, she became the eighth woman to dunk in a women's college basketball game.^[5]

Fran Belibi

Belibi with Stanford in 2022
Personal information
Born	(2001-07-20) July 20, 2001 (age 24) Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Career information
High school	Regis Jesuit (Denver, Colorado)
College	Stanford (2019–2023)
Position	Forward
Career highlights
NCAA champion (2021) McDonald's All-American (2019)
Medals Women's basketball Representing the  United States FIBA Under-19 World Cup 2019 Thailand Team FIBA Under-17 World Cup 2018 Belarus Team FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship 2017 Argentina Team

Early life

Belibi was born in Kansas City, Kansas to Franck and Suzanne Belibi, who were born in Cameroon and moved to Belgium before coming to the United States. The family later moved to Centennial, Colorado.^[6]

High school career

Belibi started playing competitive basketball for the first time during her freshman year at Regis Jesuit High School.^[7] In 2017, she became the first girl to dunk in a game in Colorado high school history.^[8] In February 2019, she pulled off the first ever alley-oop dunk by a female in a high school game in Colorado.^[9][10] As a senior she averaged 21.8 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.4 steals, 2.7 blocks and 2.3 assists per game. She was named a McDonald's All-American in 2019 and went on to become the second woman to win the dunk contest at the McDonald's All American Game, after Candace Parker who won in 2004.^[11][12]

College career

During her freshman season she averaged 6.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per game in 32 games, making six starts.^[13] In December 2020, she became the eighth woman to dunk in a college basketball game when she dunked with under a minute left in the first half of Stanford's victory against California.^[14][15] Eight days later, she had another dunk in a victory against UCLA.^[16]

On April 4, 2021, Belibi won the NCAA championship after Stanford beat the Arizona Wildcats, 54–53, in the national title game.^[17]

On March 19, 2022, Belibi had the third dunk in NCAA women's tournament history when she dunked midway through the second quarter of Stanford's 78-37 first round victory against Montana State.^[18]

Belibi made the decision to forgo her final year of college eligibility resulting from the extra year of COVID-19 eligibility. Instead, Belibi made the decision to retire from basketball and to pursue a Masters in Education from Harvard University in 2023–24.^[19]

National team career

Belibi has won three gold medals playing for the United States junior national teams, 2019 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup, 2018 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup and the 2017 FIBA Under-16 Women's Americas Championship.^[13]

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

College

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2019–20	Stanford	32	6	13.8	58.2	0.0	61.5	4.5	0.8	0.7	0.7	1.5	6.6
2020–21	Stanford	33	13	14.7	53.1	0.0	63.9	5.0	1.0	0.6	0.6	1.5	7.4
2021–22	Stanford	35	4	13.5	59.0	0.0	61.4	4.5	1.0	0.8	0.5	1.3	7.8
2022–23	Stanford	34	1	10.3	53.7	0.0	54.1	3.5	1.0	0.7	0.5	0.6	4.0
Career		134	24	13.1	56.2	0.0	60.9	4.4	1.0	0.7	0.6	1.2	6.4
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[20]

Personal life

Belibi is listed 6'1" in shoes but is 5'11" without them. She has a 6-foot-5 wingspan and a 31-inch vertical leap. Belibi has two younger sisters and one younger brother. Fabiola, the second born child attends Harvard University for track. Hana, the third oldest, was a consensus four-star recruit in the 2024 class, and attends Harvard University for basketball. Her youngest sibling, Franck is a rising high school senior, four-star recruit, and one of the top recruits in 2026.^[4]