Shoni Schimmel

Shoni Schimmel
No. 5 – New York Liberty
Position Point guard / Shooting guard
League WNBA
Personal information
Born (1992-05-04) May 4, 1992
Nationality American
Listed height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Listed weight 161 lb (73 kg)
Career information
High school Hermiston (Hermiston, Oregon)
Franklin (Portland, Oregon)
College Louisville (2010–2014)
WNBA draft 2014 / Round: 1 / Pick: 8th overall
Selected by the Atlanta Dream
Playing career 2014–present
Career history
2014–2015 Atlanta Dream
2016–present New York Liberty
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals
Women's Basketball
World University Games
2013 Kazan, Russia Team Competition

Shoni Schimmel (born May 4, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was an All-American college player at the University of Louisville and a first round draft pick of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream.

Early life and high school

Schimmel, a 5'9" shooting guard, first received notoriety as a high school player in Oregon. Raised on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Mission, Oregon, she was the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Jonathan Hock called Off the Rez, which chronicled her journey to earn an NCAA scholarship with her basketball ability. She transferred from Hermiston High School in eastern Oregon to the larger Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon to increase her chances of being recruited to a Division I school.[1] After her senior year at Franklin, Schimmel was named a first team All-American by Parade magazine.[2]

Schimmel was selected to the 2010 Women's Basketball Coaches Association High School Coaches' All-America Team. The top twenty high school players in the country are named as WBCA All-Americans, and eligible to play in the all-star game. She participated in the 2010 WBCA High School All-America Game, scoring six points.[3][4]

College career

Schimmel chose Louisville for college and became a four-year starter for the Cardinals. As a junior in 2012–13, Schimmel led the team to the championship game of the 2013 Tournament. In her senior season, Schimmel averaged 17.1 points per game to lead the team in scoring and was named an All-American by the USBWA and Associated Press.[5][6]

For her career, she finished second on the Louisville career scoring list, finishing with 2,174 points.[7]

College statistics

Source[8]

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
2010–11 Louisville 35 528 40.0 36.5 69.8 3.6 4.9 2.1 0.1 15.1
2011–12 Louisville 31 444 35.3 29.9 72.5 4.5 4.7 2.4 0.5 14.3
2012–13 Louisville 38 539 39.1 32.9 79.2 3.1 3.6 1.7 0.3 14.2
2013–14 Louisville 38 663 39.7 37.6 81.7 4.5 3.8 1.3 0.2 17.4
Career Louisville 142 2174 38.7 34.4 76.9 3.9 4.2 1.8 0.3 15.3

USA Basketball

Schimmel was selected to be a member of the team representing the USA at the 2013 World University Games held in Kazan, Russia. The team, coached by Sherri Coale, won the opening four games easily, scoring in triple digits in each game, and winning by 30 or more points in each case. After winning the quarterfinal game against Sweden, they faced Australia in the semifinal. The USA team opened up as much as a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter of the game but the Australian team fought back and took a one-point lead in the final minute. Crystal Bradford scored a basket with 14 seconds left in the game to secure a 79–78 victory. The gold medal opponent was Russia, but the USA team never trailed, and won 90–71 to win the gold medal and the World University games Championship. Schimmel averaged 4.6 points per game.[9]

Professional career

On April 14, 2014, Schimmel was selected in the first round of the 2014 WNBA draft (eighth pick overall) by the Atlanta Dream. Despite coming off the bench, Schimmel had an impressive rookie season, averaging 8.3 ppg and was voted a WNBA All-Star starter. In her first career game, Schimmel scored 7 points to go with a franchise-record 11 assists against the San Antonio Stars.[10] In a regular season game win against the Phoenix Mercury, Schimmel scored a career-high 24 points, where she scored 20 of them in the second quarter, becoming one of six players in WNBA history to score 20 or more points in a quarter.[11] She also earned recognition as the 2014 WNBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player on July 19, 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona as Schimmel out battled Skylar Diggins by scoring a then WNBA All-Star Game record, 29 points (which would be broken by Maya Moore the following year).[7] In 2014, her jersey was the league's best seller.[12] Some of the other WNBA franchises have held events honoring Native Americans when the Dream is the visiting team.[12] With Schimmel's productivity on the court along with a supporting cast of Sancho Lyttle, all-star center Érika de Souza and superstar small forward Angel McCoughtry, the Atlanta Dream were the number one seed in the Eastern Conference, but were upset in the first round of the playoffs, losing 2-1 to the fourth-seeded Chicago Sky.

In the 2015 season, Schimmel averaged 7.6 ppg despite starting in more games than she did in her rookie season. However, she was voted once again as a WNBA all-star starter, but the Dream never made it to the playoffs. Schimmel led the team in assists throughout the whole season.

Right before the 2016 season, Schimmel was traded to the New York Liberty in exchange for a 2017 second round draft pick.[13] Despite being a two-time all-star, Schimmel would have a significantly reduced role on the team while averaging career lows in minutes per game (4.5 mpg) and points per game (2.1 ppg). She was also out of shape coming into training camp which ultimately led to the amount of playing time she would get.[14][15] Midway through the season, Schimmel suffered a concussion that would cause her to miss the rest of the season, including the playoffs.

Personal life

Schimmel has a younger sister, Jude, who was also a teammate of hers at Louisville.[16] Shae, Mick, Milan, Saint, and Sun are the children of Ceci and Rick Schimmel.

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high League leader

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2014 Atlanta 34 2 21.0 .374 .342 .840 2.7 5.7 0.7 0.0 2.4 8.3
2015 Atlanta 32 16 19.8 .378 .383 .857 2.5 3.2 0.7 0.1 2.3 7.6
2016 New York 17 0 4.5 .550 .563 .800 0.5 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.4 2.1
Career 3 years, 2 teams 83 18 17.3 .382 .371 .845 2.0 2.8 0.6 0.1 2.0 6.7

Postseason

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2014 Atlanta 3 3 19.7 .368 .375 .840 5.7 3.6 1.0 0.0 2.3 6.3
Career 1 year, 1 team 3 3 19.7 .368 .375 .840 5.7 3.6 1.0 0.0 2.3 6.3

References

  1. ↑ "Mother, Daughter Prove Themselves 'Off The Rez'". NPR.org. May 14, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Franklin's Shoni Schimmel makes Parade All-American first team". OregonLive.com. March 22, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Past WBCA HS Coaches' All-America Teams". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 1 Jul 2014.
  4. ↑ "WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 29 Jun 2014.
  5. ↑ Linter, Jonathan (April 1, 2014). "Shoni Schimmel named second team AP All-American". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  6. ↑ Linter, Jonathan (March 31, 2014). "Shoni Schimmel makes USBWA's All-America team". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Shoni Schimmel Selected Eighth in the 2014 WNBA Draft". Louisville Cardinals. April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  8. ↑ "NCAA® Career Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  9. ↑ "Twenty-Seventh World University Games -- 2013". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.ndnsports.com/shoni-schimmel-closing-out-the-regular-season-the-way-she-started-breaking-records/
  11. ↑ http://panicbutton.sportsblog.com:43434/posts/472069/schimmel_is_6th_wnba_player.html
  12. 1 2 "Franklin's Shoni Schimmel brings 'Rez Ball' back to NW". kgw.com. KGW. August 7, 2014. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  13. ↑ http://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/15446628/new-york-liberty-acquire-all-star-shoni-schimmel-atlanta-dream
  14. ↑ http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/basketball/dreams-cooper-disappointed-in-schimmel/nrCFb/
  15. ↑ http://uoflcardgame.com/shoni-schimmel-not-much-factor-new-york-liberty/51833/
  16. ↑ "Two Sisters Bring Native American Pride To Women's NCAA". NPR.com. April 8, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2014.

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