Courtney Vandersloot Basketball player

European team : MBK Ružomberok, Slovakia, EuropeCourtney Vandersloot (born February 8, 1989) is an American basketball player, currently a point guard with the Chicago Sky in the WNBA and Beşiktaş in the Turkish Women's Basketball League (TKBL). The third selection in the 2011 WNBA Draft, she had a successful first season in which she was selected for the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game and named to the WNBA All-Rookie Team.During her college career at Gonzaga University, she was the only women's player in West Coast Conference history to be named the conference's player of the year three times, and also the only player to be named MVP of the WCC Women's Tournament three times. In her final season at Gonzaga, she won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top NCAA Division I women's player no taller than 5'8" (1.73 m) and Nancy Lieberman Award as the top player at her position in Division I women's basketball. Vandersloot is also the first Division I player, male or female, to have accumulated 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career, and only the second female overall (current Old Dominion head coach Karen Barefoot accomplished the feat at Division III Christopher Newport University).

Personal facts

Courtney Vandersloot
Birth dateFebruary 08, 1989
Birth place
Kent Washington , Washington (state)
Height (meters)1.7272
Weight (Kilograms)58.968

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Basketball player

Career start2011
Awards
WNBA All-Star Game
WNBA All-Rookie Team
college
Gonzaga University
draft3rd overall
draft team
Chicago Sky
draft year2011
former teams
Chicago Sky
highschool
Kentwood High School (Washington)
position
Point guard
teams
Chicago Sky

Courtney Vandersloot on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.gozags.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/vandersloot_courtney00.html