- Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales (born
September 5 ,1979 , in Collingwood,Ontario ) and raised inBrockville, Ontario . Attended theUniversity of Oklahoma , a member of theKodak All-American First Team in 2001 and 2002. Became 2001 and 2002Big 12 Conference Player of the Year andBig 12 all-time career assist leader (764). She was the First Oklahoma player to record 1,700 points, 600 rebounds and 700 assists, later followed byCourtney Paris . During her senior year she led the Sooners to the NCAA Championship game where they lost to Connecticut. After leaving Oklahoma that year, she went by the married name "Dales-Schuman," but has used only "Dales" since divorcing her husband during her year off from pro ball.Dales was drafted third overall in 2002 by the
Washington Mystics , the highest pick ever for aCanadian . That year she was named to the All-Star Team as a replacement. In 2004 she announced her retirement from the league for the first time.Later the
Chicago Sky picked her up out of her one year retirement in the expansion draft of 2006 where Washington left her unprotected. She also serves as a men's and women'scollege basketball analyst, as well as a sideline reporter for college football games onESPN .On
April 5 ,2008 Dales announced her retirement from the WNBA for the second time.tatistics
*Position: Guard - Forward
*Height: 6' ft, 183cm
*Weight: 155 lbs
*College:University of Oklahoma
*Team(s):Washington Mystics ,Chicago Sky Ranked 4th in the league for 3-pointers made (62) & 2nd in 3-point attempts (201) in 2007.
Trivia
When she was with Washington, she was diagnosed with
Raynaud's phenomenon in her hands.References
* [http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/stacey_dales/index.html?nav=page/WNBA Player Profile]
* [http://newsok.com/article/2990147/ Interview with The Oklahoman]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/sports/ncaabasketball/11seconds.html?fta=y Interview with New York Times]
* [http://www.hsus.org/about_us/celebrity_support/stacey_dalesschuman.html Involvement in animal welfare]
* [http://www.wnba.com/sky/news/Dales_Retires.html Dales retires from the WNBA]
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