Chamique Holdsclaw
2000


Holdsclaw fits in on team of stars
Rookie of the Year 1999

Chamique Holdsclaw has gone from being the dominant player in women's college basketball and the brightest star in the WNBA to just another top athlete on the U.S. national team training for the Sydney Olympics.

    Career highlights

  • Voted a Eastern Conference starter in the 2000 WNBA All-Star Game.
  • Selected to the 1999-2000 USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team.
  • Won the 1999 WNBA Rookie of the Year award.
  • Was voted a starter for the East team for the inaugural WNBA All Star Game.
  • In 1999, named to Kodak 25th Anniversary Team, Women's Basketball Journal, Sports Illustrated and Sporting News National Women's Player of the Year, Naismith finalist and winner of Sullivan Award (first woman's college player to win, winning over finalists such as Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams of Texas and Tim Couch of Kentucky).
  • A member of three consecutive National Championship teams with Tennessee from 1996-1998.
  • Averaged 20.4 ppg, 8.8 rpg and 2.6 apg in her four-year career at Tennessee.
  • Won the Naismith Award, and was named AP Women's Basketball Player of the Year, after the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons.
  • Won 1999 ESPY's for female Athlete of the Year.
  • SEC's all-time leading scorer.
  • Ranks third on all-time NCAA woman's basketball career scoring list.
  • Selected as an AP First Team All-America for four consecutive seasons from 1996-97 to 1998-99.
    WNBA ranking
    (2000 season, per game)
  • 8th in points, 17.5
  • 7th in rebounds, 7.5
  • 19th in steals, 1.47
  • 4th in minutes, 35.3



WASHINGTON FORWARD LED LEAGUE'S ROOKIES IN SCORING, REBOUNDING
Mystics' Holdsclaw Named Rookie of the Year

NEW YORK, Aug. 28 -- Chamique Holdsclaw of the Washington Mystics today was named the winner of the 1999 WNBA Rookie of the Year Award.

Holdsclaw received 48 of a possible 51 votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters. Dominique Canty of the Detroit Shock, Nykesha Sales of the Orlando Miracle and Tamika Whitmore of the New York Liberty each received one vote.

Holdsclaw, the No. 1 pick in the 1999 WNBA Draft, averaged 16.9 points, 7.9 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 34.2 minutes per game. The 6-foot-2 forward from Tennessee started 31 of 32 games and finished the season ranked sixth in scoring and third in rebounding.

In addition to a Tiffany-designed trophy, Holdsclaw will also receive $5,000. The 51-member voting panel consisted of 15 national media representatives, as well as local media representatives who cover the WNBA regularly from each of the league's twelve markets. This is the second season in which the Rookie of the Year honor has been awarded. The Charlotte Sting's Tracy Reid received the award in 1998.

Here are the results of the 1999 WNBA Rookie of the Year vote:

1999 WNBA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR RESULTS
Player, TeamVotes
Chamique Holdsclaw, Washington Mystics48
Doninique Canty, Detroit Shock 1
Nykesha Sales, Orlando Miracle1
Tamika Whitmore, New York Liberty1

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