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- 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. She continued to hold the girls basketball record for Connecticut until 1987. At university, Claxton held the 1981 rebound season record with the Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball team and was with Kansas when they finished third at the 1981 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship. The following year, Claxton held the rebound season record again while also holding the points season record for 1982. After leaving Kansas to join the Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team in 1983, Claxton was the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player after she and Old Dominion won the 1985 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. After her time at Old Dominion ended, Claxton was in the top five for most career rebounds after she led the season rebounds category in 1984 and 1985. With 1,434 combined rebounds, Claxton was eighteenth in NCAA Division I records for most career rebounds in 2020. As a coach, Claxton was an assistant for Quinnipiac College's women's basketball team from 1989 to 1990 before coaching girls basketball teams from the 2000s to 2020s. Claxton became part of the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988 and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. Apart from basketball, Claxton worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association from 1988 to 2001. (en)
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- 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. She continued to hold the girls basketball record for Connecticut until 1987. At university, Claxton held the 1981 rebound season record with the Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball team and was with Kansas when they finished third at the 1981 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship. The following year, Claxton held the rebound season record again while also holding the points season record for 1982. After leaving Kansas to join the Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball team in 1983, Claxton was the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player after she and Old Dominion won the 1985 NCAA Division I women's bask (en)
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