Michelle Edwards (basketball)
American women's basketball player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michelle Edwards (born March 6, 1966) is an American retired professional women's basketball player. She was a member of the United States women's national basketball team, that claimed the bronze medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. Edwards was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Position | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||||
League | Big Ten Conference | ||||||||||||||
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Born | (1966-03-06) March 6, 1966 (age 58) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 150 lb (68 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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High school | Cathedral (Boston, Massachusetts) | ||||||||||||||
College | Iowa (1984–1988) | ||||||||||||||
WNBA draft | 1997: Initial allocation round | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Cleveland Rockers | |||||||||||||||
Position | Guard | ||||||||||||||
Number | 44 | ||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 2004–2005, 2019–present | ||||||||||||||
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1997–2000 | Cleveland Rockers | ||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Seattle Storm | ||||||||||||||
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2004–2005 | Rutgers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2019–present | Illinois (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
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Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||||
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||
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Edwards was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]
Allocated to the Cleveland Rockers in the 1997 WNBA draft, the 5'9" guard out of the University of Iowa played for Cleveland and the Seattle Storm during her career. She also coached at Rutgers University.