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The road to my current position as Director of Business Development for Industrial Reliability & Repair was actually a hardwood floor. I carried a basketball rather than a briefcase. Known as "The Lady of Firsts," I became the first basketball player in NCAA history, male or female, to record 2, career points and 1, assists during my four-year career at Christopher Newport University. While the ink on my diploma from CNU was still drying, I was hired at age 22 to create and coach the small college level women's basketball program for the Newport News Apprentice School, which had never fielded a women's athletic team in its more than year history. In just six years we were women's small college national champions. Not only were the Apprentice women basketball champions, but their success that began with eight-hour days wearing hard hats and steel-toed shoes before basketball practice led many to places in high management at the Newport News Shipyard. I followed the hardwood road to head coaching positions at four colleges, three of them -- Elon, Old Dominion and North Carolina-Wilmington -- at the NCAA Division I level. During my 27 years as a college basketball coach I won games and nine of my players were named to halls of fame, while I have been in
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Sun History
| Season | W | L | % |
| 12 | 22 | ||
| 10 | 24 | ||
| 25 | 9 | ||
| 21 | 13 | ||
| 17 | 17 | ||
| 16 | 18 | ||
| 21 | 13 | ||
| 18 | 16 | ||
| 26 | 8 | ||
| 26 | 8 | ||
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August 28, - Sun forward Chiney Ogwumike is named the WNBA Rookie of the Year presented by Samsung. Ogwumike received 23 votes from a national panel of 38 sportswriters and broadcasters who voted for the award. Sun guard/forward Alyssa Thomas was named to the All-Rookie Team.
August 21, - The Connecticut Sun earned the No. 3 and No. 4 selections in the WNBA Draft following the WNBA Draft Lottery presented by State Farm.
July 15, - Sun guard Katie Douglas and forward Chiney Ogwumike were named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as reserves.
April 14, - The Connecticut Sun select Chiney Ogwumike of Stanford with the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft. Three picks later, the Sun trade WNBA MVP Tina Charles to the New York Liberty in exchange for rookie Alyssa Thomas (the No. 4 pick in the Draft), Kelsey Bone (the No. 5 overall pick in ) and New York�s first-round pick in
March 24, - The Connecticut Sun sign All Star guard Katie Douglas to a two-year contract with a third-year option.
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