Tracy Claxton (born 1961 or 1962) is a former basketball player who amassed 2,420 career points in 1980 while at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut.
After leaving Kansas to join the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs in 1983, Claxton was named the most outstanding player in the 1985 NCAA Division I championship where the 1984–85 team defeated Georgia 70–65.
[3] From 1978 to 1980, Claxton and Wilbur Cross won the Class L basketball division in Connecticut championships.
[4] In 1980, Claxton amassed over 2,000 points and was the first person in Connecticut to reach this career threshold in girls basketball.
[5] That year, Claxton finished her girls basketball career in 1980 when she left Wilbur Cross.
Claxton continued to hold the record for most girls basketball career points in Connecticut until it was broken by Tracy Lis in 1987.
[10] At the 1981 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship, Claxton was part of the Kansas team when they reached the second round.
[15][16] With the Lady Monarchs, Claxton and her team won the 1985 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
[21] Apart from her college basketball career, Claxton went to Sacred Heart University in the 1990s to study primary education.
[26][25] While at Blue Cross, Claxton started her coaching career from 1989 to 1990 with the women's basketball team at Quinnipiac College as an assistant.
[43] In 2020, Claxton was one of the selections for an All-Century Team for girls basketball players by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference.