San Francisco- A former Berkeley High School basketball star who went on to coach in Alameda has pleaded no contest to 18 felony counts of unlawful sexual contact with three teenagers she met through her job.

Tanda Rucker, 32, was accused of penetration with a foreign object and copulation with minors. She could be sent to jail for a maximum of one year and given five years’ probation when she is sentenced in February.

The most damaging penalty, however, will be the legal requirement for Rucker to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life, said her attorney, Elizabeth Grossman of Berkeley.

“She’s completely finished to coach or teach,” Grossman said.

Rucker, who lives in Southern California, entered her plea Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court and is free on $680,000 property bond.

Rucker was named by USA Today as California’s top high school player of 1991.

Prosecutors said she had relationships with two 16-year-old players at Encinal High School in Alameda, where she coached, and a Richmond teen she met through her job. The relationships occurred between 2000 and 2002, prosecutors said.

Grossman said the relationships were consensual.

The parents of the two Encinal students have filed civil lawsuits against Rucker, calling her a predator who pressured their daughters into lesbian affairs.