Michelle Snow

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Donnette Jé-Michelle Snow (born March 20, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played most recently in the Turkish Women's Basketball League.

Early life

Born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, Snow led Pensacola High School to the state championship and was named "Miss Basketball" in 1998. Snow was named a WBCA All-American.[1] She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game

College career

Snow was a psychology major at the University of Tennessee. She played alongside Tennessee graduates like Kara Lawson. On November 30, 2000, Snow became just the third woman in NCAA college basketball history to dunk during a game. She did so against the University of Illinois, University of South Carolina and Vanderbilt University.

USA Basketball

She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in Taipei.[2]

Snow was named to the National Team representing the US at the 2006 World Championships, held in Barueri and São Paulo, Brazil. The team won eight of their nine contests, but the lone loss came in the semifinal medal round to Russia. The USA beat Brazil in the final game to earn the bronze medal. Snow averaged 2.8 points per game and was second on the team with six blocks.[3]

WNBA career

Snow was drafted 10th overall by the Houston Comets in the 1st round of the 2002 WNBA draft. Her nickname is "Shell". Snow has a 7'1" Script error: No such module "Unsubst". reach which helped her to become one of the best shot blockers in the WNBA.

In 2003, Snow was named most improved player of the year.

In the 2006 WNBA all-star game, Snow became the second WNBA player to dunk in an all-star game.

After the Comets disbanded in late 2008, she later played for the Atlanta Dream. She was traded to the San Antonio Silver Stars on March 11, 2010.[4] She was again traded to the Chicago Sky on April 20, 2011.[5] Snow signed with the Washington Mystics on February 9, 2012.[6] On September 9, 2015, Snow signed with the Los Angeles Sparks for the rest of the season,[7] only playing two games of the Sparks' season. She became a free agent at the end of the 2015 season.

NWBL career

Snow played on the championship team of the 2003 Houston Stealth in the NWBL.

Overseas career

She played for Elitzur Ramla in Israel during the 2007–08 WNBA off-season, winning a championship with the team.[8] She had been playing for Salamanca in Spain during the 2008–09 WNBA off-season.[9] During the 2009–2012 off-seasons she played for Dynamo Kursk in the Russian Superleague A, winning a EuroCup with the team in 2012.

In the 2014–2015 WNBA off-season, Snow played in the Turkish Superleague for Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi.[10] In May 2016, Snow re-signed with Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi for the 2016–17 WNBA off-season.[11] For the 2017–2018 season, which she announced would be her last,[12] Snow first played at Bornova Becker (Turkey – KBSL) before moving to Adana ASKI Mersin in the same league, where she earned honorable mention for the All-League Teams.[13]

Career statistics

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WNBA

Regular season

Template:WNBA player statistics start |- | align="left" | 2002 | align="left" | Houston |32||2||15.0||46.9||50.0||59.6||3.7||0.4||0.4||0.8||0.7||3.9 |- | align="left" | 2003 | align="left" | Houston |34||34||30.1||49.8||0.0||72.9||7.7||1.2||1.0||1.8||2.0||9.2 |- | align="left" | 2004 | align="left" | Houston |31||31||28.8||45.4||—||60.2||7.7||1.0||0.9||1.1||2.3||8.9 |- | align="left" | 2005 | align="left" | Houston |33||33||29.3||55.1||—||70.8||6.8||1.2||0.6||1.2||2.0||12.0 |- | align="left" | 2006 | align="left" | Houston |34||34||29.2||51.0||—||66.7||7.9||1.4||1.0||1.1||2.6||13.0 |- | align="left" | 2007 | align="left" | Houston |34||34||26.2||49.3||—||76.8||6.8||1.4||0.5||1.0||2.7||10.8 |- | align="left" | 2008 | align="left" | Houston |34||34||25.2||53.2||50.0||69.7||6.8||1.2||0.5||0.9||1.8||9.9 |- | align="left" | 2009 | align="left" | Atlanta |34||2||14.8||47.9||0.0||76.1||4.3||0.5||0.4||0.5||1.1||5.4 |- | align="left" | 2010 | align="left" | San Antonio |34||33||24.1||57.4||0.0||71.9||6.2||1.6||1.0||0.7||1.6||10.4 |- | align="left" | 2011 | align="left" | Chicago |34||30||24.1||45.6||0.0||76.0||6.3||1.9||0.5||1.3||2.1||5.9 |- | align="left" | 2012 | align="left" | Washington |32||21||20.1||52.3||0.0||77.8||5.4||0.6||0.6||0.8||1.7||5.9 |- | align="left" | 2013 | align="left" | Washington |34||18||16.8||47.4||—||82.4||4.8||0.6||0.5||0.7||1.0||5.1 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" |2014 | colspan=13 align="center" |Did not appear in league |- | align="left" | 2015 | align="left" | Los Angeles |2||0||13.0||42.9||—||0.0||1.5||0.0||0.0||0.5||2.0||3.0 |- class="sortbottom" | rowspan=2 align="left" | Career | align="left" | 13 years, 6 teams |402||306||23.6||50.6||18.2||70.4||6.2||1.1||0.7||1.0||1.8||8.4 |- class="sortbottom" | align=center | All-Star |2||0||15.7||50.0||—||66.6||7.0||1.0||0.5||0.5||0.0||8.0 Template:S-end

Playoffs

Template:WNBA player statistics start |- | align="left" | 2002 | align="left" | Houston |3||0||26.3||33.3||0.0||87.5||7.0||1.3||0.0||0.7||1.7||6.3 |- | align="left" | 2003 | align="left" | Houston |3||3||29.7||40.0||—||62.5||9.7||1.7||1.3||1.3||1.7||8.3 |- | align="left" | 2005 | align="left" | Houston |5||5||30.4||52.9||—||69.6||5.4||0.8||1.0||0.6||3.2||10.4 |- | align="left" | 2006 | align="left" | Houston |2||2||28.5||58.8||—||91.7||6.0||2.0||1.0||3.0||1.0||15.5 |- | align="left" | 2009 | align="left" | Atlanta |2||0||16.5||30.0||—||60.0||4.0||0.5||0.0||1.0||1.0||4.5 |- | align="left" | 2010 | align="left" | San Antonio |2||2||19.0||33.3||—||66.7||4.0||2.0||0.5||0.0||1.5||7.0 |- | align="left" | 2013 | align="left" | Washington |3||0||12.0||36.4||—||100.0||5.7||0.3||0.3||1.7||1.0||3.3 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | Career | align="left" | 7 years, 4 teams |20||12||24.2||43.1||0.0||75.0||6.1||1.2||0.7||1.1||1.8||8.0 Template:S-end

College

NCAA statistics[14]
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1998–99 Tennessee 34 290 60.0 — 51.9 6.4 0.4 0.7 1.4 8.5
1999–00 Tennessee 37 435 55.5 0.0 62.9 6.3 0.4 0.8 1.3 11.8
2000–01 Tennessee 33 365 57.2 — 60.8 6.8 0.8 0.6 1.4 11.1
2001–02 Tennessee 33 407 50.4 — 75.3 6.5 0.5 0.7 1.7 12.3
Career 137 1497 55.3 0.0 63.9 6.5 0.5 0.7 1.4 10.9

References

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External links

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