Bio

La'koi Wooten, a 6-foot forward from Crenshaw High in Los Angeles, was an MVP in Army basketball coming out of high school. She played one season at UTEP, then transferred to Palomar to play for coach Teri Bamford, a former assistant at UC Irvine, and led the 1984-85 Comets to the Pacific Coast Conference championship and the program's first-ever undefeated conference season. She was selected as conference Player of the Year as Palomar won the PCC title by four games over second-place San Diego Mesa to complete a remarkable turn-around that saw the Comets go from 0-15 in conference during the 1983-1984 season to 12-0 in 1984-85. Wooten averaged 19.5 points and 14.5 rebounds on the season against one of the toughest schedules in the state. Her 23 points and 12 rebounds kept the Comets close for most of the game in a loss to eventual California community college champion Los Angeles Trade Tech on Nov. 24, had 25 points and 22 rebounds in the Comets' first meeting with eventual state semifinalist Santa Monica College in December and had 20 points and 22 rebounds in the teams' second meeting in March as the Corsairs eliminated them from the Southern Cal Regionals. Wooten also had monster performances of 22 points and 16 rebounds vs. NJCAA power Pima (AZ) Community College, 25 points and 20 rebounds vs. College of the Desert, 32 points and 17 rebounds vs. San Diego Mesa, 28 points and 17 rebounds in a 73-46 victory over Grossmont and 23 points and 24 rebounds in an 87-37 win over MiraCosta. She also pulled down 23 rebounds against San Diego City College. Wooten was selected to an all-star team that played a series of games against the Hong Kong Basketball Association National Team in China, returned to play on the Division I level for United States International University and played professional basketball in Aukland, New Zealand. She later became a hugely popular rapper in Aukland.