1. In 2010, Fran Harris was the host of Home Rules, a transformational television series on HGTV.
17 Facts About Fran Harris
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Fran Harris started playing basketball when she was a sophomore at South Oak Cliff High School and played on the on JV and varsity teams her first year.
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Fran Harris moved on to the University of Texas at Austin where she had a standout basketball career and earned bachelor's degrees and master's degrees in journalism.
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Fran Harris was a player for The University of Texas at Austin from 1982 to 1986.
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Fran Harris led her team to its first and only NCAA Championship title, to date in 1986 with the first perfect season in women's NCAA history.
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Fran Harris was the leading scorer three years in a row and was the team captain in 1986.
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Fran Harris was named to the Southwest Conference All-Decade Team, SWC Player of the Year and was two-time team MVP, selected by teammates.
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Fran Harris was an outside shooter who finished her career as the University's fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,798 points.
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Fran Harris played for USA Basketball as part of the 1985 USA National Jones Cup Team that captured Gold for the second year in a row, World Championship Team in 1986 that won Gold, USA Women's Pan American Team in 1987 that won a gold medal in Indianapolis, Indiana and was an Olympic Team Alternate in 1988.
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Fran Harris later played for two years in the WNBA.
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Fran Harris started one game for the Comets but played in 25 games coming off the bench, scoring a total of 104 points on the season as the Comets won the first-ever WNBA Championship.
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Fran Harris hosted the transformational makeover show, Home Rules on HGTV, in which Fran Harris helped redesign the interiors of people's homes.
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Fran Harris has been coaching since she was a teenager and has been a fitness advocate since college.
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Since retiring from the WNBA, Fran Harris has appeared as a fitness and life coach on many television shows.
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Fran Harris produced and hosted her own reality show, America's Fitness Show, which aired in Austin, Texas.
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In 2011, Fran Harris bested over 15,000 candidates to be named Good Morning America's Advice Guru Runner-up.
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That same year, Fran Harris was one of eleven contestants appearing on the NBC competitive reality television series America's Next Great Restaurant, in which aspiring restaurateurs pitch their concepts for a fast casual restaurant chain.