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In the same month six years ago, Skakyla Hill of Grambling State shook up the basketball world with a historic and unforgettable performance. On Jan. 3, 2018, Hill recorded the first quadruple-double in all of women's college basketball as Grambling State defeated Alabama State, 93-71. The star guard cruised to 15 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, and 10 steals.
Six years later to the day, Carly Bolivar from Holy Family University joined Hill as the only woman this century to record a quadruple-double. Bolivar put up 11 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists, and 10 steals in an 85-48 smackdown win against Wilmington University.
The circumstances of Bolivar's night – a quadruple-double exactly years after Hill's – provided the perfect instance for Rob Knox of The Next to catch up with Hill and reminisce on the occasion. Though she is currently employed at NUFG Bank, Hill wishes to return to play in the Athletes Unlimited league in February. After graduating in 2019 from Grambling State, Hill played for ZKK Kraljevo in the First Women's Basketball League of Serbia. She continued her quadruple-double ways with a 15-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist, and 10-steal performance on Jan. 26, 2020. She later played for Baskimi Prizren in 2022 after the COVID-19 virus forced her to return home.
Despite being so far separated from her historic night, Hill vividly remembers the social media outburst.
“There were so many tweets,” she told Knox. “When Chris Paul and James Harden tweeted that night and said, ‘It's not every day you see a quadruple-double.' It was different. Then I realized i had made SportsCenter, and people began sending me video clips to my phone, to the point where I turned it off. When Chris Paul tweeted, I was like, ‘This is about to change my life.'”
The NBA shoutouts didn't stop there. After a myriad of interviews and a SportsCenter appearance, she saw an encouraging clip from LeBron James.
“That was my goal and the best moment,” she said. “He acknowledged my accomplishment and knew who I was. I didn't know about it initially because I had no phone. I was at breakfast, and my teammates came up to me and handed me a phone to watch. I didn't know what I was looking at in the beginning. Then, when I realized it was LeBron shouting me out, I busted out crying because I couldn't believe it. Everybody was watching me. It was something I'll never forget.”
Over her career at Grambling State, Hill racked up the accolades. She won 12 SWAC Player of the Week Awards and SWAC Tournament MVP in 2018. Her brilliance continued in 2019 with both the SWAC Player of the Year and SWAC Defensive Player of the Year awards. She also won the United States Sports Academy Player of the Month and ESPN The Undefeated's HBCU Player of the Year.
As previously mentioned, Hill is training to join the Athletes Unlimited league next month. However, she got her degree in criminal justice in hopes of becoming a criminal defense attorney. If she can't return to basketball, she's more than fine with taking the LSAT and pursuing her dreams in another field.
