Pamela McGee

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Pamela McGee
Medal record

Women’s basketball
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Team competition

Pamela McGee (born December 1, 1962) is an American retired professional women's basketball player and assistant coach. At age 34, Pamela was the second overall pick in the 1997 WNBA Draft. She played in the league for two seasons with the Sacramento Monarchs and Los Angeles Sparks.

McGee grew up in Flint, Michigan, where she attended Flint Southwestern Academy before graduating from Flint Northern High School.

Pamela won back-to-back NCAA Championships as an All-American at the University of Southern California, where she was a teammate of twin sister Paula, and Cynthia Cooper and Cheryl Miller. In 1984, she won Olympic gold in Los Angeles before embarking on a professional career that included stints in Brazil, France, Italy and Spain.

Personal

McGee has two children; a daughter, Imani, and a son, JaVale. Imani plays basketball for the University of Texas at Austin. Javale McGee plays with the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. She is the first WNBA player to have a child play in the NBA.^[1] In 2000, she was inducted into the Greater Flint Afro-American Hall of Fame. She lives in Inglewood, California.^[2]

External links

↑ "Mother-son legacy a first for WNBA/NBA - NBA - ESPN". ESPN.com. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
↑ "2000 Greater Flint Afro-American Hall of Fame -- Pamela McGee". Retrieved 16 January 2012.

v t e United States women's squad – 1984 Summer Olympics – Gold medal

4 Edwards 5 Henry 6 Woodard 7 Donovan 8 Boswell 9 Miller 10 Lawrence 11 Noble 12 Mulkey 13 Curry 14 McGee 15 Menken-Schaudt Coach: Summitt

1997 WNBA Draft

Elite Draft

Round 1	Dena Head Isabelle Fijalkowski Rhonda Mapp Kym Hampton Wanda Guyton Judy Mosley-McAfee Bridget Pettis Daedra Charles

Round 2	Wendy Palmer Lynette Woodard Michi Atkins Vickie Johnson Janeth Arcain Mikiko Hagiwara Nancy Lieberman-Cline Zheng Haixia

WNBA Draft

Round 1	Tina Thompson Pamela McGee Jamila Wideman Eva Horáková Tammi Reiss Sue Wicks Tora Suber Toni Foster

Round 2	Tia Jackson Sharon Manning Sophia Witherspoon Jessie Hicks Merlakia Jones Tamecka Dixon Denique Graves Tammy Jackson

Round 3	Racquel Spurlock Chantel Tremitiere Katrina Colleton Tina Nicholson Raegan Scott Trena Tice Debra Williams Umeki Webb

Round 4	Monique Ambers Andrea Congreaves Kisha Ford Kim Williams Anita Maxwell Travesa Gant Tajama Abraham Catarina Pollini

Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Knoxville, Tennessee

Coaches (45)

Contributors (20)

Val Ackerman Senda Abbott Mildred Barnes Patty Broderick E. Wayne Cooley Carol Eckman Betty Jo Graber Mel Greenberg Phyllis Holmes Claude Hutcherson Betty F. Jaynes George E. Killian Andrea Lloyd-Curry Darlene May Shin-Ja Park Lea Plarski Gloria Ray Robin Roberts Borislav Stankovic William L. Wall Marcy Weston

Foreign players (7)

Hortência Marcari Inge Nissen Uljana Semjonova Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva Bev Smith Olga Sukharnova Michelle Timms Vanya Voynova

U.S. players (43)

Veterans (12)

Alline Banks Sprouse Joan Crawford Margaret Sexton Gleaves Rita Horky Patsy Neal Lometa Odom Doris Rogers Lurlyne Greer Rogers Hazel Walker Katherine Washington Ora Washington Nera White

Persondata
Name	McGee, Pamela
Alternative names
Short description	American professional women's basketball player
Date of birth	December 1, 1962
Place of birth	Flint, Michigan, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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