Women's Basketball Star Found Among 45th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Published Sept. 13, 2009 By Capt. Shane O. Huff 927 Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Ofiice MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Senior Airman Williamina A. Folks is a Health Service Management troop with the 45th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. She is also an outstanding basketball player as demonstrated this past summer when she made both the Air Force and the Armed Forces women's basketball teams. Folks played college basketball for Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla. where she received a degree in biology. Her position was small/power forward. She learned about the women's Air Force team basketball try-outs from the MacDill Health and Wellness Center. After making the team, Folks traveled to Texas in April for three weeks of training before playing in the 2009 Armed Forces Women's Basketball Championship, which took place in May at the Naval Support Activity Mid-South, Millington, Tenn. The Air Force took second place in the tournament, beating the Army team 58-52 on the first day. On the following day the Air Force beat the Marine Corps 81-66 with Folks' 26 points and eight rebounds. The Navy sewed up the championship with a 70-62 victory over the Air Force. Folks was then selected to play for the Armed Forces Women's Basketball Team and participated in the "2009 Tournament of Stars", 7-8 August in Lake Charles, La. In their first game against the Louisiana Elite, they were down by 5 at the half, but pulled back to within 1 with 40 seconds remaining. Army Spec. Aquanita Burras' two successful free throws with 14 seconds left put the Forces ahead and the Elite couldn't score again. Coming up from the loser's bracket, the team easily beat the Untouchables from Louisiana in their next game. Leading 29-11 at the half-time break, the team never looked back and easily won with a 47-28 final. The Armed Forces team finished overall with a 2-2 record in the double elimination tourney.