Sophia Young

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Sophia Young
WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars  – No. 33
Forward
Born (1983-12-15) December 15, 1983
Saint Vincent, West Indies
Nationality Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Vincentian
United States American
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 165 lb (75 kg)
College Baylor
Draft 4th overall, 2006
San Antonio Silver Stars
WNBA career 2006–present
Non-WNBA career 2006–present
Profile WNBA player profile
WNBA teams
San Antonio Silver Stars (2006–present)
Non-WNBA teams
Gambrinus Sika Brno (2006–2007)
Galatasaray (2007–2010)
Awards and honors
3× WNBA All-Star (2006, 2007, 2009)

Sophia Yvonne Ashley Young (born December 15, 1983 in Saint Vincent, West Indies) is a Vincentian professional women's basketball player with the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA.

High school years

Young attended Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

College years

Young was an All-American at Baylor University and helped lead the team, nicknamed the Lady Bears, to their first National Championship during the 2005 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, defeating Michigan State University. She is one of only four women in NCAA history to score 2,000 points, grab 1,000 rebounds, collect 300 steals, as well as dish out 300 assists.

  • Big 12 10th Anniversary Team (only active player named to the five person squad)
  • Big 12 Player of the Year
  • Kodak All-American (second straight year)
  • AP All-American (first team)
  • USBWA All-American (second straight year)
  • All-Tournament team Albuquerque Regional
  • Big 12 Championship All-Tournament team (third straight year)
  • Wooden Award Finalist
  • Wade Trophy Finalist
  • Naismith Trophy Watch List
  • All-Big 12 first team (third straight year)
  • All-Big 12 Defensive team
  • Bayer Senior CLASS Award Finalist
  • Big 12 Player of the Week (three-time)
  • Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (4.0 GPA)

WNBA career

Young was selected as the fourth overall pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft by the San Antonio Silver Stars. As a rookie, she was named to the Western Conference WNBA All-Star team.

Anti-LGBT Equality

Sophia Young took to Twitter on August 28, 2013 to express her views against LGBT equality. Young descended upon San Antonio City Hall in Texas to pray for the defeat of proposed LGBT additions to the city's anti-discrimination bill. The proposal would add 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' to the city's existing nondiscrimination ordinance. Young tweeted a photo of herself holding a 'Vote No' sign but seemed to think she was protesting against same-sex marriage because her Twitter message read: 'Should San Antonio be a city that allows same sex marriage?? I vote NO.'A later tweet stated: 'My vote is still No... San Antonio should not allows Same sex marriages.'

USA Basketball

Young was one of 21 finalists for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team Roster for the 2010-2012 cycle. The 20 professional women's basketball payers, plus one collegiate player (Brittney Griner), were selected by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Player Selection Committee to compete for the final roster which will represent the USA at the 2012 Olympics in London.[1] Young was named to the National team training pool again for the 2014-2016 cycle on 13 January 2014.[2]

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game
 PPG  Points per game  TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage  Bold  Career high League leader

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2006 San Antonio 34 34 31.1 .416 .000 .730 7.6 1.5 1.7 0.4 1.32 12.0
2007 San Antonio 33 33 33.5 .478 .000 .749 5.8 1.5 1.5 0.4 1.85 16.8
2008 San Antonio 33 33 31.9 .478 .000 .786 5.6 2.3 1.6 0.5 1.73 17.5
2009 San Antonio 33 33 33.7 .454 .309 .767 6.5 1.6 1.3 0.5 1.88 18.2
2010 San Antonio 34 34 31.8 .501 .263 .658 5.2 2.4 1.6 0.3 2.06 15.3
2011 San Antonio 33 33 31.6 .429 .000 .592 6.4 2.3 2.0 0.5 1.55 13.2
Career 6 years, 1 team 200 199 32.3 .461 .243 .721 6.2 1.9 1.6 0.4 1.73 15.5

Postseason

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2007 San Antonio 5 5 34.4 .507 .000 .844 9.0 1.6 0.8 0.4 1.60 20.2
2008 San Antonio 9 9 36.1 .456 .000 .750 5.9 1.7 1.6 0.1 2.11 17.7
2009 San Antonio 3 3 32.0 .458 .500 .684 5.3 2.0 2.0 0.7 1.67 19.3
2010 San Antonio 2 2 33.0 .406 .000 .556 9.0 2.5 1.0 0.5 3.50 15.5
2011 San Antonio
Career 5 years, 1 team 19 19 34.6 .464 .333 .750 6.9 1.8 1.4 0.3 2.05 18.4

Awards and achievements

Notes

  1. ↑ "Twenty-One Finalists In The Mix For Final 2012 U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team Roster". USA Basketball. February 13, 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012. 
  2. ↑ Voepel, Mechelle (13 January 2014). "USA Basketball sets 33-player pool". ESPN.com. Retrieved 22 January 2014. 
  3. ↑ Galatasaray Win EuroCup Women After OT Thriller

External links

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