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Tanja Kostić

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Tanja Kostić
Personal information
Born (1972-11-10) November 10, 1972 (age 51)
Solna, Sweden
Career information
CollegeOregon State (1992–1996)
PositionHead coach
Career highlights and awards

Tanja Kostić (Serbian: Тања Костић, romanized: Tanja Kostić; born November 10, 1972) is a Swedish retired women's basketball player best known for playing with the Oregon State Beavers from 1993 to 1996. She won a EuroLeague Women in 1998 with CJM Bourges Basket.

Early life[edit]

Kostic was born in Solna, Sweden, and was a member of the Swedish national team by age 19.[1] She enrolled at Oregon State University (OSU) in the United States in 1992. Throughout her career at OSU, she recorded school records of 2,349 points[2] scored and 1,001 rebounds in 111 career games. She is the only player in school history with 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. Kostić made 869 field goals, and set Oregon State and Pac-10 records for free throws attempted (903), free throws made (608), and set an OSU record for field goals attempted with 1,773. She is the second all-time leading career scorer in the Pac-10, and the sixth all-time leading career rebounder in the Pac-10.

Honours[edit]

Kostić was a first-team All-Pac-10 team member all four years at Oregon State, making the All-Freshman Pac-10 first team in 1993. She made the All Pac-10 team four times from 1993 to 1996. She was a consensus All-American in 1996 on the second team,[3] and was Pac-10 Player of the Year in both 1995 and 1996.[4][5]

Professional career[edit]

Kostić played for the Portland Power of the American Basketball League,[6] as well as the Cleveland Rockers and Miami Sol of the Women's National Basketball Association.[7] She played five games for the Rockers in 1998 and five games for the Sol in 2000.[7]

Career statistics[edit]

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 best ° League leader

WNBA career statistics[edit]

Regular season[edit]

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
1998 Cleveland 5 0 6.0 66.7 0.0 50.0 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.6 1.0
2000 Miami 5 0 9.2 33.3 0.0 50.0 1.0 0.8 0.4 0.0 1.4 1.4
Career 2 years, 2 teams 10 0 7.6 41.7 0.0 50.0 0.7 0.6 0.2 0.0 1.0 1.2

College[edit]

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
1992–93 Oregon State 26 - - 47.5 100.0 63.7 8.2 1.1 1.5 0.5 - 18.2
1993–94 Oregon State 28 - - 50.8 0.0 69.5 9.4 2.0 1.8 0.5 - 20.6
1994–95 Oregon State 29 - - 52.6 0.0 64.2 7.6 1.8 1.2 0.4 - 22.3
1995–96 Oregon State 28 - - 45.5 50.0 71.5 10.8 1.3 1.9 0.2 - 23.2
Career 111 - - 49.0 60.0 67.3 9.0 1.6 1.6 0.4 - 21.2
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[8]

Personal life[edit]

Her parents are Serbian.[9] She is married to Lithuanian basketball star Rimantas Kaukėnas, with whom she has three daughters.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ O'Neil, Dan (January 11, 1996). "Kostic Effect: the Scoring Swede comes to Seattle". The Daily of the University of Washington. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  2. ^ Associated Press (February 23, 1996). "Lady Wildcats fall, 73-62". Kingman Daily Miner. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  3. ^ "Georgia guard tops All-American". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. March 14, 1996. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Pac-10 Women -- Down By 17 Late In Game, UCLA Rallies, Wins In Ot - - Bruins Outscore Wildcats 22-5 In Final 3 Minutes". The Seattle Times. January 21, 1996. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  5. ^ "Midwest". Reading Eagle. March 17, 1996. pp. D6. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  6. ^ Baum, Bob (July 4, 1996). "Power will blaze new trail". Eugene Register-Guard. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  7. ^ a b "Tanja Kostic". Basketball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Tanja Kostić College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  9. ^ "Hem från USA som stjärna. Serbiska Tanja från Täby ska skjuta Sverige vidare i EM". Den 23-åriga Täbytjejen, med serbiska föräldrar
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