2009 Minnesota Lynx season

The 2009 WNBA season is the 11th season for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association.

Offseason

Dispersal Draft

Based on the Lynx's 2008 record, they would pick 4th in the Houston Comets dispersal draft. The Lynx picked Roneeka Hodges. ^[1]

WNBA Draft

The following are the Lynx's selections in the 2009 WNBA Draft.

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School/Team/Country
1	4	Renee Montgomery	United States	Connecticut
1	9 (from L.A. via Wash.)	Quanitra Hollingsworth	United States	Virginia Commonwealth
2	15 (from Wash.)	Rashanda McCants	United States	North Carolina
3	30	Emily Fox	United States	Minnesota

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Transactions

• July 17: The Lynx signed Tasha Humphrey and waived Christi Thomas.
• June 5: The Lynx waived Tye'sha Fluker, Emily Fox, and Anna DeForge.
• June 3: The Lynx promoted Jennifer Gillom as head coach to replace Don Zierden
• June 1: The Lynx signed Tye'sha Fluker.
• May 30: The Lynx waived Kamersha Hairston and Aisha Mohammed.
• May 11: The Lynx signed Kamesha Hairston and Aisha Mohammed to training camp contracts.
• May 7: The Lynx signed Roneeka Hodges and renounced the rights to Kristi Harrower.
• May 5: The Lynx traded Noelle Quinn to the Los Angeles Sparks in exchange for Rafaella Masciadri and a first-round 2010 WNBA Draft pick.
• April 22: The Lynx waived Navonda Moore.
• January 30: The Lynx traded Lindsey Harding, their second-round draft picks in 2009 (23rd overall) and 2010 to the Washington Mystics for their first-round (ninth overall) and second round (15th overall) draft picks in the 2009 draft.
• January 30: The Lynx traded Nicole Ohlde to the Phoenix Mercury for Kelly Miller and LaToya Pringle.
• January 30: The Lynx signed-and-traded Vanessa Hayden to the Los Angeles Sparks for Christi Thomas.
• January 9: The Lynx waived Kristen Rasmussen.
• March 14, 2008: The Lynx swapped second-round 2009 Draft picks with the Connecticut Sun as part of the Kristen Rasmussen/Tamika Raymond transaction.

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Free agents

Roster

Minnesota Lynx roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Height Weight From 5.5 !F/C 21 USA ! Anosike, Nicky style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 76 !6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 211 lb (96 kg) Tennessee 1.5 !G 33 USA ! Augustus, Seimone  style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 72 !6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 179 lb (81 kg) LSU 1.5 !G 5 USA ! Hodges, Roneeka style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 71 !5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) 165 lb (75 kg) Florida State 6.0 !C 9 USA ! Hollingsworth, Quanitra style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 77 !6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 201 lb (91 kg) Virginia Commonwealth 4.0 !F 24 USA ! Houston, Charde style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 73 !6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 189 lb (86 kg) Connecticut 6.0 !C 34 USA ! Humphrey, Tasha style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 75 !6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) Georgia 4.0 !F 8 USA ! McCants, Rashanda style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 73 !6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 161 lb (73 kg) North Carolina 1.0 !PG 2 USA ! Miller, Kelly style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 70 !5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 140 lb (64 kg) Georgia 4.0 !F 12 Spain ! Montañana, Anna style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 73 !6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 190 lb (86 kg) George Washington 1.5 !G 20 USA ! Montgomery, Renee style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 67 !5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) 139 lb (63 kg) Connecticut 1.5 !G 11 USA ! Wiggins, Candice style="text-align:right; white-space:nowrap; | 71 !5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) 154 lb (70 kg) Stanford	Head coach Jennifer Gillom (Mississippi) Assistant coaches Jim Davis (Tennessee Wesleyan) Jim Petersen (Minnesota) Athletic trainer Chuck Barta (Wisconsin–La Crosse) Strength and conditioning coach Katie Murphy Legend (C) Team captain (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended Injured

Season standings

Schedule

Preseason

Regular season

Regular Season Statistics

Player Statistics

Team Statistics

Awards and honors

• Seimone Augustus was named WNBA Western Conference Player of the Week for the week of June 15, 2009.
• Candice Wiggins was named WNBA Western Conference Player of the Week for the week of June 29, 2009.
• Nicky Anosike was named to the 2009 WNBA All-Star Team as an Western Conference reserve.
• Charde Houston was named to the 2009 WNBA All-Star Team as an Western Conference reserve.
• Renee Montgomery was named to the All-Rookie Team.
• Nicky Anosike was named to the All-Defensive First Team.

References

External links

• Gillom promoted to head coach of the Minnesota Lynx