Kate Starbird
Kate Starbird (born Catharine Evelyn Starbird on July 30, 1975 in West Point, New York) is a former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the American Basketball League (ABL).
Starbird attended Lakes High School in Lakewood, Washington where she was named a High School All-American by the WBCA.[1] She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1993, scoring twelve points, and earning MVP honors.[2][3]
At Stanford University, the 6'2" Starbird held the all-time Cardinal career scoring record with 2,215 points until January 31, 2008 when Candice Wiggins broke the record. In 1997, she was awarded the women's Naismith College Player of the Year award. After college, she joined the ABL's Seattle Reign.
In 1999 she was drafted into the WNBA by the Sacramento Monarchs, who selected her 26th overall in the 3rd round of the 1999 WNBA Draft. She was then picked up by the Miami Sol in the 1999 expansion draft, then traded to the Utah Starzz for Elena Baranova and a second-round pick. She was then traded by the Starzz to the Seattle Storm for Semeka Randall in 2002. She missed the 2003 season, then joined the Fever in 2004.
She was inducted to the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame on November 2, 2007.
Currently, Starbird is pursuing her Ph.D in the A.T.L.A.S. (Alliance of Technology, Learning, And Society) program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She studies educational possibilities of social media as well as Crisis Informatics. She also has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.[4]
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[edit] ABL career
1997-1999: Seattle Reign
[edit] WNBA career
1999: Sacramento Monarchs
2000–2002: Utah Starzz
2002: Seattle Storm
2004: Indiana Fever
[edit] Notes
- ^ "1993 WBCA High School All-Americans". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/93-HSAA.asp. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ "1993 WBCA High School All-America Game". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/upload/1993HSAAG.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ "WBCA High School All-America Game Record Book - MVPs". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/education/wbca-events/wbca-high-school-all-america-game/past-mvps/. Retrieved 2009-10-26.[dead link]
- ^ "Starbird Earns Second Place in Random Hacks of Kindness Event Competition". University of Colorado at Boulder Computer Science web site. University of Colorado at Boulder Office of Media Relations and News Services. December 2009. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/news/starbirdrhok.html. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
[edit] External links
- WNBA player file
- Fan page
- Fan page
- Fan page
- March 22, 1996 San Francisco Examiner article on Starbird's family and career at Stanford
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