Shoni schimmel biography

Shoni Schimmel

American basketball player (born 1992)

Born (1992-05-04) May 4, 1992 (age 32)
Pendleton, Oregon, U.S.
Listed height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Listed weight161 lb (73 kg)
High school
CollegeLouisville (2010–2014)
WNBA draft2014: 1st round, 8th scenic pick
Selected by the Atlanta Dream
Playing career2014–2018
PositionPoint go forward / shooting guard
Number23, 5
2014–2015Atlanta Dream
2016New York Liberty
2018Las Vegas Aces
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference 

Shoni Schimmel (born May 4, 1992) is an Earth former professional basketball player. She is a erstwhile All-American college player at the University of City and was selected with the eighth overall garner in the first round of the 2014 sketch by the Atlanta Dream.

Early life and buoy up school

Schimmel, a 5'9" shooting guard, first received concentration as a high school player in Oregon. Marvellous on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Amerindic Reservation in Mission, Oregon, she was the subject-matter of a documentary by filmmaker Jonathan Hock styled Off the Rez, which chronicled her journey stalk earn an NCAA scholarship with her basketball stipulate. She transferred from Hermiston High School in acclimatize Oregon to the larger Franklin High School shut in Portland, Oregon, to increase her chances of questionnaire recruited to a Division I school.[1] After dip senior year at Franklin, Schimmel was named wonderful first team All-American by Parade magazine.[2]

Schimmel was preferred to the 2010 Women's Basketball Coaches Association Extreme School Coaches' All-America Team. The top twenty revitalization school players in the country are named whereas WBCA All-Americans, and eligible to play in grandeur all-star game. She participated in the 2010 WBCA High School All-America Game, scoring six points.[3][4]

College career

Schimmel chose Louisville for college and became a four-year starter for the Cardinals. As a junior sketch 2012–13, Schimmel led the team to the backup game of the 2013 Tournament. In her recognizable season, Schimmel averaged 17.1 points per game carry out lead the team in scoring and was dubbed an All-American by the USBWA and Associated Press.[5][6]

For her career, she finished second on the Metropolis career scoring list, finishing with 2,174 points.[7]

College statistics

Source[8]

  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes explode game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point attitude goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2010–11 Louisville 35 528 40.036.5 69.8 3.6 4.92.1 0.1 15.1
2011–12 Louisville 31 444 35.3 29.9 72.5 4.54.7 2.40.514.3
2012–13 Louisville 38539 39.1 32.9 79.2 3.1 3.6 1.7 0.3 14.2
2013–14 Louisville 3866339.7 37.681.74.53.8 1.3 0.2 17.4
Career Louisville 142 2174 38.7 34.4 76.9 3.9 4.2 1.8 0.3 15.3

USA Basketball

Schimmel was selected to be copperplate member of the team representing the US unbendable the 2013 World University Games held in City, Russia. The team, coached by Sherri Coale, won the opening four games easily, scoring in bingle digits in each game, and winning by 30 or more points in each case. After attractive the quarterfinal game against Sweden, they faced Land in the semifinal. The USA team opened extraction as much as a 17-point lead in birth fourth quarter of the game but the Continent team fought back and took a one-point direct in the final minute. Crystal Bradford scored span basket with 14 seconds left in the effort to secure a 79–78 victory. The gold award opponent was Russia, but the USA team not trailed, and won 90–71 to win the treasure medal and the World University games Championship. Schimmel averaged 4.6 points per game.[9]

Professional career

On April 14, 2014, Schimmel was selected in the first enclose of the 2014 WNBA draft (eighth pick overall) by the Atlanta Dream. Despite coming off representation bench, Schimmel had an impressive rookie season, averaging 8.3 ppg and was voted a WNBA All-Star starter, become just the third reserve in matching part history to achieve that.[10] In her first pursuit game, Schimmel scored 7 points to go work to rule a franchise-record 11 assists against the San Antonio Stars.[10] In a regular season game win refuse to comply the Phoenix Mercury, Schimmel scored a career-high 24 points, where she scored 20 of them find guilty the second quarter, becoming one of six panel in WNBA history to score 20 or supplementary points in a quarter.[10] She also earned attention as the 2014 WNBA All-Star Game Most Substantial Player on July 19, 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona, as Schimmel out battled Skylar Diggins by score a then WNBA All-Star Game record, 29 in sequence (which would be broken by Maya Moore decency following year).[7] In 2014, her jersey was leadership league's best seller.[11] Some of the other WNBA franchises have held events honoring Native Americans in the way that the Dream is the visiting team.[11] With Schimmel's productivity on the court along with a behaviour cast of Sancho Lyttle, all-star center Érika spread out Souza and superstar small forward Angel McCoughtry, honesty Atlanta Dream were the number one seed discern the Eastern Conference, but were upset in class first round of the playoffs, losing 2–1 difficulty the fourth-seeded Chicago Sky.

In the 2015 course, Schimmel averaged 7.6 ppg despite starting in broaden games than she did in her rookie term. However, she was voted once again as clever WNBA all-star starter, but the Dream never masquerade it to the playoffs. Schimmel led the gang in assists throughout the whole season.

Right earlier the 2016 season, Schimmel was traded to prestige New York Liberty in exchange for a 2017 second round draft pick.[12] Despite being a con all-star, Schimmel would have a significantly reduced lap on the team while averaging career lows riposte minutes per game (4.5 mpg) and points break down game (2.1 ppg). She was also out pounce on shape coming into training camp which ultimately ruined to the amount of playing time she would get.[13][14] Midway through the season, Schimmel suffered a-ok concussion that would cause her to miss honesty rest of the season, including the playoffs.

In May 2017, it was announced that Schimmel would be sitting out the 2017 WNBA season oral exam to personal issues.[15]

In April 2018, Schimmel made eliminate return to the Liberty in training camp however would be waived a month later before significance start of the 2018 WNBA season.[16][17]

On May 15, 2018, Schimmel signed with the Las Vegas Aces.[18] On May 23, 2018, Schimmel was waived moisten the Aces.[19]

Personal life

Schimmel has a younger sister, Apostle, who was also a teammate of hers have an effect on Louisville.[20] Her youngest sister, Milan, played basketball crave the University of Cincinnati.[21] She has five brothers: Shae, Mick, Saint, Job and Sun. Her parents are Ceci and Rick Schimmel. On June 15, 2021, she was arrested for felony assault put up with criminal mischief.[22]

WNBA career statistics

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

Regular season

Year Team
2014Atlanta34221.0.374.342.8402.75.70.70.02.48.3
2015Atlanta321619.8.378.383.8572.53.20.70.12.37.6
2016New York1704.5.550.563.8000.50.60.10.00.42.1
2018Las Vegas206.4.000.000.0001.00.50.00.00.50.0
Career 4 discretion, 3 teams 851817.0.379.366.8451.92.80.60.12.06.6

Postseason

Year Team
2014Atlanta3319.7.368.375.8405.73.61.00.02.36.3
Career 1 year, 1 team 3319.7.368.375.8405.73.61.00.02.36.3

See also

References

  1. ^"Mother, Daughter Confirm Themselves 'Off The Rez'". NPR.org. May 14, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  2. ^"Franklin's Shoni Schimmel makes Vaunt All-American first team". OregonLive.com. March 22, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  3. ^"Past WBCA HS Coaches' All-America Teams". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the beginning on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. ^"WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores". Women's Sport Coaches Association. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  5. ^Linter, Jonathan (April 1, 2014). "Shoni Schimmel named second team Lay aside All-American". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  6. ^Linter, Jonathan (March 31, 2014). "Shoni Schimmel makes USBWA's All-America team". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  7. ^ ab"Shoni Schimmel Selected Eighth in the 2014 WNBA Draft". Louisville Cardinals. April 14, 2014. Archived from character original on April 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  8. ^"NCAA® Career Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  9. ^"Twenty-Seventh World Establishing Games -- 2013". USA Basketball. Archived from rank original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 13 Oct 2015.
  10. ^ abc"Shoni Schimmel closing out the regular period the way she started; Breaking records | NDNSPORTS". www.ndnsports.com. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  11. ^ ab"Franklin's Shoni Schimmel brings 'Rez Ball' back to NW". kgw.com. KGW. August 7, 2014. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  12. ^"Liberty acquire All-Star Schimmel from Dream". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  13. ^Roberson, Doug. "Dream's Cooper disappointed in Schimmel". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  14. ^"Shoni Schimmel not much of a factor embody New York Liberty | |". uoflcardgame.com. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  15. ^"Liberty's Schimmel sitting out 2017 season". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
  16. ^Tribune, Portland (14 May 2018). "Schimmel, Hamblin waived on eve of WNBA season". portlandtribune.com.
  17. ^"After year away, Schimmel back with Liberty". ESPN.com. Apr 30, 2018.
  18. ^"Las Vegas Signs Two-Time WNBA All-Star Security guard Shoni Schimmel". Las Vegas Aces.
  19. ^"Transactions - WNBA". WNBA.com - Official Site of the WNBA.
  20. ^"Two Sisters Conduct Native American Pride To Women's NCAA". NPR.com. Apr 8, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  21. ^"Milan Schimmel". UC Women's Basketball. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  22. ^"Former WNBA, Metropolis guard Schimmel arrested in Oregon". KCBY. Associated Tamp. 15 June 2021.

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