Seimone Augustus, Basketball Player, - Biography,
USA Basketball Player
Position
Shooting guard
Height 6 foot ( 1.83 m )
Weight 179 lb ( 81 kg )
Team
Minnesota Lynx
Born April 30, 1984, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
College LSU
Draft 1st overall, 2006
Pro career 2006 – present, Awards SEC Player
of the Year (2005, 2006), Wade Trophy (2005, 2006), Naismith Award (2005, 2006)
Wooden
Award (2005, 2006), WNBA Rookie of the Year (2006), WNBA All-Star (2006)
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pic of her
Seimone Augustus is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx.
Personal
Augustus
is the daughter of Seymore & Kim Augustus.
College years
During
her collegiate career with the LSU Lady Tigers, the three time All American won
the Naismith College Player of the Year, Wooden Award & Wade Trophy in 2005
& 2006 while leading the LSU to three straight Final Four appearances. The
Lady Tigers however, never advanced beyond the semi-final round. She averaged
19.3 points, 5.2 rebounds & 2 assists per game in her collegiate career. Augustus
graduated from Louisiana State University in 2006.
WNBA career
Augustus
was drafted #1 overall in 2006 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx. Selected as a
reserve for the 2006 WNBA All Star Game at Madison Square Garden, Augustus led
the West squad with 16 points & won the Skills Competition the previous evening.
Augustus finished her rookie campaign second to the Mercury's Diana Taurasi in scoring at 21.9 points per game. Only one player (Taurasi 2006), scored more points in a single season. In addition, she finished fifth in free throw percentage (.897). On August 20, Augustus was named the 2006 WNBA Rookie of the Year.
International
career
2006-2007: Dynamo Moscow
Trivia
The only players prior to
Augustus to win the Wooden Award or Wade Trophy twice are Nancy Lieberman (Wade)
& Ralph Sampson (Wooden).
Augustus has a love of classic cars, stemming
from her uncle's 1969 Chevrolet Impala convertible.
At LSU, Augustus received
a degree in General Studies & is just short of a second in Finance.
Quotes
“People
always say there are good players, there are great players & then there are
special players. Seimone is a special player.”
--former Lynx head coach
Suzie McConnell Serio
“She is just awesome; some of the things you
see her do on the court amaze you. You wonder, ‘How the heck did she do that?’”
--Lynx
center Vanessa Hayden on Augustus
“I never heard about (the criticism).
I can’t really worry about what people say or what happened in the Final
Four & why we didn’t win or whatever. Well, I actually have heard that
people said that I didn’t take over the game or whatever, but I don’t
know any team in America that is just going to come out & let me do whatever
I want to do. I have to play within my system & within my team & I wasn’t
able to be as effective as I was in the regular season.”
--Augustus on
the criticism of her Final Four record
“If you count wins & losses,
yeah (the players share the blame), because we didn’t win. But, at the same
time, we played our hearts out; (Coach McConnell Serio) knows it as well. We did
what we could do out on the court.”
--Augustus on McConnell Serio’s
resignation
“I might have tried it in high school, (but) after that
I hung up the dunking shoes.”
--Augustus on dunking
This site was written in June 2007.
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