- Tamika Raymond
Infobox WNBA Player
name = Tamika Raymond
team =Connecticut Sun
position = Forward
height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2
weight_lbs = 195
nationality = USA
birth_date = Birth date and age|1980|4|12|mf=y
birth_place = Dayton,Ohio
college = Connecticut
draft = 6th overall
draft_year = 2002
draft_team =Minnesota Lynx
career_start = 2002
career_end =
former_teams =Minnesota Lynx
awards =Tamika Maria Raymond (born
April 12 ,1980 , inDayton, Ohio ) is a professionalbasketball player. She currently plays for theConnecticut Sun in the WNBA. She was known as Tamika Williams before marrying formerUniversity of Minnesota Duluth basketball player Ben Raymond in April2007 [http://www.startribune.com/1296/story/1142493.html] .High school years
Raymond started playing organized basketball at age 9 in the Dayton Lady Hoopstars AAU program, played on Lady Hoopstar teams which won one national AAU age group championship and finished in top four twice.
Raymond had a stellar basketball career at Chaminade-Julienne, a
Catholic high school inDayton, Ohio . She was named the1997 and1998 Ohio Player of the Year and was named in the 1997-98 "Associated Press " girlsDivision I All-Ohiohigh school basketball team. She was also named "Ohio's Miss Basketball" by the "Associated Press" and chosen by a state-wide media panel.After graduating from Chaminade-Julienne, Raymond was heavily recruited by numerous collegiate teams. In
1997 , she was the subject of a seven-page feature in a November 1997 issue of a "Sports Illustrated " magazine article on the pressures of being recruited.College years
Raymond attended the
University of Connecticut , majored in interpersonal communications, and served as President of UConn's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. From 1998 to 2002 she was part of the UConn basketball team, which became NCAA Division I National Championship teams in 2000 and 2002 under coachGeno Auriemma .She completed her four-year collegiate career in
2002 with averages of 10.6 points per game and 5.8rebounds per game. She finished as UConn's all-time leader in field goal percentage at 70.3% (560-for-797). She also holds the Huskies' top four single-season marks for field goal percentage, ranked 14th on UConn's all-time scoring list with 1,402 points, and finished 10th all-time in rebounding (763).In recent years, she has been spending the WNBA off-season working on getting a
master's degree in sports management atOhio State University , while serving as an Assistant Coach for their women's basketball team.WNBA career
During the
2002 WNBA Draft , theMinnesota Lynx selected Raymond in the first round, sixth overall. In2003 , she set a WNBA single-season record for field-goal accuracy, with a percentage of 66.8%.On
March 14 ,2008 Raymond was traded to theConnecticut Sun in exchange forKristen Rasmussen .External links
* [http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/tamika_raymond/index.html WNBA Player Profile]
* [http://ohiostatebuckeyes.collegesports.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/williams_tamika00.html Ohio State University coaching profile]
* [http://www.wnba.com/sun/news/suntradefortamikaraymond.html Sun acquires Tamika Raymond from Minnesota]
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