Michelle Snow
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Snow in 2011. | |||||||||||||||||||
| No. 22 – Los Angeles Sparks | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Power forward / Center | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
March 20, 1980 Pensacola, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Pensacola (Pensacola, Florida) | ||||||||||||||||||
| College | Tennessee (1998–2002) | ||||||||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 2002 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10th overall | ||||||||||||||||||
| Selected by the Houston Comets | |||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2002–present | ||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2008 | Houston Comets | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Houston Stealth | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Atlanta Dream | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | San Antonio Silver Stars | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Chicago Sky | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Washington Mystics | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–present | Los Angeles Sparks | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stats at WNBA.com | |||||||||||||||||||
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Donnette Jé-Michelle Snow (born March 20, 1980) is an American professional basketball player from the WNBA. She currently plays for the Los Angeles Sparks.
High school career
Born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, Snow led Pensacola High School to the state championship and was named "Miss Basketball" in 1998. Snow was named a WBCA All-American.[1] She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game
College career
Snow was a psychology major at the University of Tennessee. She played alongside Tennessee graduates like Kara Lawson. On November 30, 2000, Snow became just the third woman in NCAA college basketball history to dunk during a game. She did so against the University of Illinois, University of South Carolina and Vanderbilt University.
College statistics
Source[2]
| Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998–99 | Tennessee | 34 | 290 | 60.0 | - | 0.5 | 6.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 8.5 |
| 1999–00 | Tennessee | 37 | 435 | 55.5 | 0.0 | 62.9 | 6.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 11.8 |
| 2000–01 | Tennessee | 33 | 365 | 57.2 | - | 60.8 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 11.1 |
| 2001–02 | Tennessee | 33 | 407 | 50.4 | - | 75.3 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 12.3 |
| Career | Tennessee | 137 | 1497 | 55.3 | 0.0 | 63.9 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 10.9 |
USA Basketball
She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in Taipei.[3]
Snow was named to the National Team representing the USA at the 2006 World Championships, held in Barueri and São Paulo, Brazil. The team won eight of their nine contests, but the lone loss came in the semifinal medal round to Russia. The USA beat Brazil in the final game to earn the bronze medal. Snow averaged 2.8 points per game and was second on the team with six blocks.[4]
WNBA career
Snow was drafted 10th overall in the 1st round of the 2002 WNBA Draft. Her nickname is "Shell". Snow has a 7'1" reach which helped her to become one of the best shot blockers in the WNBA.
In 2003, Snow was named most improved player of the year.
In the 2006 WNBA all-star game, Michelle Snow became the second WNBA player to dunk in an all-star game.
After the Comets disbanded in late 2008, she later played for the Atlanta Dream. She was traded to the San Antonio Silver Stars on March 11, 2010.[5] She was again traded to the Chicago Sky on April 20, 2011.[6] Snow signed with the Washington Mystics on February 9, 2012.[7] On September 9, 2015 Snow signed with the Los Angeles Sparks.[8]
NWBL career
Snow played on the championship team of the 2003 Houston Stealth in the NWBL.
Overseas career
She played for Ramla in Israel during the 2007-08 WNBA off-season.[9] She had been playing for Salamanca in Spain during the 2008-09 WNBA off-season.[10] During the 2009-2012 off-seasons she has been playing for Dynamo Kursk in the Russian Superleague A.
In the 2014-2015 season, Snow played in the Turkish Superleague for the Mersin BSH Bld women's team.[11]
Notes
- ↑ "1998 WBCA High School All-Americans". WBCA. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
- ↑ "Women's Basketball Player stats". NCAA. Retrieved 25 Sep 2015.
- ↑ "2000 WOMEN'S R. WILLIAM JONES CUP". Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ↑ "Fifteenth World Championship For Women -- 2006". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ↑ Silver Stars Trade for Michelle Snow
- ↑ The Sky Acquires Michelle Snow in trade for Jia Perkins
- ↑ Mystics sign free–agent center Michelle Snow
- ↑ Sparks Sign WNBA Veteran Center Michelle Snow
- ↑ Offseason 2007-08: Overseas Roster
- ↑ Offseason 2008-09: Overseas Roster
- ↑ "Michelle Snow basketball profile". eurobasket.com. Sports I.T. Retrieved 4 August 2015.