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This differs from the WNBA's practice, which does not count Team USA players in 2004 and 2010 as All-Stars, even though all members of Team USA except for Maya Moore in 2010 were WNBA players at the time of the two games. There was no All-Star Game held in 2008. Players who were voted to start in all-star games but were unable to play due to ...
List of Women's National Basketball Association players. 2 languages. ... The following is a list of Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) players. A
Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986), nicknamed "Ace", [1] is an American former professional basketball player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest WNBA players of all time, [2] [3] she was selected as the first overall pick in the 2008 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks. [4]
In 2011, Catchings was voted in by fans as one of the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time, and would be named to two more all-time WNBA teams, the WNBA Top 20@20 in 2016 and The W25 in 2021. Catchings served as President of the WNBA Players Association from 2012 to 2016. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.
In 2011, she was voted one of the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time by current players and coaches, the media, and fans on the WNBA website. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] During the 2012 WNBA season, Bird experienced knee problems, yet she managed to play 29 games throughout the regular season and the playoffs.
[6] [7] Since then, only four Division I players, three female and one male, have done so. [7] On March 25, 1978, her UCLA Bruins team was the AIAW national champion: UCLA defeated Maryland, 90–74 at Pauley Pavilion. While at UCLA (1976–1979), she became the first four-time All-American women's basketball player.
In 1996, she became the first and only female basketball player to be inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. [1] in 2013, she was the first women's basketball player to have her jersey (No. 21) retired by ASU. [2]
Ora Belle Washington (c. 1899 – December 21, 1971) was an American athlete from the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Washington excelled in both tennis and basketball, and she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.