Danielle McCulley (born January 18, 1975) is a former professional

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player for the

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between 2000 and 2002 and

Seattle Storm The Seattle Storm are an American professional basketball team based in Seattle. The Storm compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference (WNBA), Western Conference. The team was founded by Gi ...

between 2002 and 2004 in the

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NCAA career

She played college basketball for

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between 1993 and 1995 and

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers are the athletic teams that represent Western Kentucky University (WKU), located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division I ranks, competing in the ...

between 1996 and 1998.

College career statistics

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USA Basketball

McCulley participated on the USA team as part of the 1999 Pan American Games in

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, Canada. The team went 4–3 and earned a bronze medal. McCulley averaged 7.5 points per game.

Professional career

ABL

She played for Portland Power in the American Basketball League in 1998–99 season.

WNBA

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

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European career

She also played for Apollon from

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for 1999–00, Beşiktaş Istanbul from

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for 2000–01 season and also played for Fenerbahçe Istanbul from

(won the

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) for 2001-02 and

Ramat HaSharon Ramat HaSharon (, ) is an affluent city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon, Israel, Sharon region, bordering the cities of Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon, Hod-HaSharon to the east, and Herzliya and kibbutz ...

from

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

for 2002–03.

References

External links

WNBA Player Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mcculley, Danielle 1975 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Turkey Centers (basketball) American women's basketball players Western Kentucky Lady Toppers basketball players Seattle Storm players Indiana Fever players Fenerbahçe women's basketball players United States women's national basketball team players Basketball players at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in basketball 20th-century American sportswomen