After retiring from playing basketball, Robinson first became an assistant coach for the Washington Mystics in 2007, then became head coach at McAlester High School in 2009, leading the Lady Buffaloes to a 5A state championship, and at the junior college level at Murray State College in Oklahoma in 2010.
[1] She participated in the inaugural WBCA High School All-America Game in 1992, scoring a game-high twenty-five points, and earning MVP honors.
[2][3] Considered by most to be the best player to ever come out of Oklahoma,[4] Robinson signed with NCAA power Louisiana Tech out of Atoka High School, but later decided she wanted to be closer to home and transferred to Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, OK before playing a single game in Louisiana.
[5] She averaged 26.9 ppg, 10.4 rpg and six apg during her collegiate career[4] and is the all-time Southeastern leader in points, rebounds, assists, and steals.
[6] Robinson also hit one of the more amazing shots ever, in the 1995 national semi-final game against Lipscomb (Tenn.), banking in a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer while parallel to the floor and draped by three defenders.
[4] Robinson began her professional career in 1996–97, playing for the Colorado Xplosion in the American Basketball League.
In 2002, Robinson started all 32 games and helped the Liberty back to the championship series for the third time in four seasons where they fell to the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2002 WNBA Finals.
[5] But the Liberty (16–18) finished sixth in the east and failed to make the playoffs for only the second time in franchise history that year.
In the 2005–06 Euroleague season, Robinson played for Spartak Moscow of the Russian Women's Basketball Premier League.
Averaging 9.5 points and 3.2 rebounds, Robinson helped Spartak Moscow earn the FIBA EuroCup title.
[10][11] On February 8, 2006, Robinson signed with the Washington Mystics and played her final two seasons of professional basketball in our nation's capital.