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2015 Atlanta Dream Season
The 2015 Atlanta Dream season was the 8th season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association, and their 2nd season under head coach, Michael Cooper. The team missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2008 season. The Dream opened their season up against the New York Liberty on June 5, 2015, with an 82–73 loss. Transactions WNBA draft Trades and Roster Changes Roster Depth Schedule Preseason , - style="background:#fcc;" , 1 , May 23 , Washington L 55-79 , McCoughtryAlwal (10) , Aneika Henry-Morello (9) , Shoni Schimmel (6) , KFC Yum! Center6,347 , 0–1 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 2 , May 27 , @ New York W 85-72 , McCoughtry Wheeler (13) , Érika de Souza (10) , Erica Wheeler (4) , Madison Square Garden14,530 , 1–1 Regular season , - style="background:#fcc;" , 1 , June 5 , @ New York L 73-82 , Angel McCoughtry (27) , McCou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cooper
Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956), nicknamed "Coop", is an American basketball coach and former player. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers during his entire career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning five NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era. He was an eight-time selection to the NBA All-Defensive Team, including five times on the first team. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 1987. Cooper was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024. The Lakers retired his 21 jersey in 2025. As a coach, Cooper led the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) to two championships and the Albuquerque Thunderbirds to one NBA G League title. He has also coached in the NBA, WNBA, and the NBA Development League. He was the head coach for boys basketball at Culver City High School in California from 2021 to 2023. He then took an assistant coaching job for men's bask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Thompson (basketball)
Amanda Clara Thompson (born November 18, 1987) is an American professional basketball player who played for the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA. She had previously played college basketball for the University of Oklahoma before being drafted by the Tulsa Shock in the 2010 WNBA draft. Career statistics WNBA Regular season , - , align="left" , 2010 , align="left" , Tulsa , 7, , 0, , 7.0, , 14.3, , —, , 70.0, , 1.6, , 0.4, , 0.4, , 0.0, , 0.6, , 1.6 , - class="sortbottom" , align="left" , ''2011'' , style="text-align:center;" colspan="13" , ''Did not play (waived)'' , - class="sortbottom" , align="left" , ''2012'' , style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2 colspan="13" , ''Did not play (did not appear in WNBA)'' , - class="sortbottom" , align="left" , ''2013'' , - , align="left" , 2014 , align="left" , Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cierra Burdick
Cassidie Cierra Burdick (born September 30, 1993) is an American basketball player who is currently playing for Valencia Basket Club. High school Burdick graduated from David W. Butler High School in 2011. She was one of five finalists for the Naismith National High School Player of the Year award in 2011. College Burdick graduated from The University of Tennessee in 2015. Burdick was named a UT Torchbearer in 2015. Tennessee statistics Source WNBA Burdick was drafted by the Los Angeles Sparks in 2015, but was cut before the season began. She then signed with the Atlanta Dream. Her career includes stints for the New York Liberty and the San Antonio Stars, before the latter was sold and moved to become the Las Vegas Aces. On July 31, 2020, Burdick signed a contract with the Aces to resume her WNBA career. WNBA career statistics Regular season , - , align="left" , 2015 , align="left" , Atlanta , 11 , , 4 , , 18.9 , , .425 , , .000 , , .875 , , 3.2 , , 1.2 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Hayes
Tiffany Kiara Hayes (born September 20, 1989) is an American-Azerbaijani professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Hayes played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies, playing for the 2009 and 2010 NCAA National Champions. Early life Hayes was born September 20, 1989, in Winter Haven, a city in Central Florida, to Dorothy and Renard Hayes. Hayes played basketball for Winter Haven High School in Winter Haven, Florida. The team compiled a 117–9 record during her career, and won the state championship in 2004 and 2007. She was the leading scorer on her team, scoring an average of 18.3 points per game. Hayes helped lead the AAU team Essence to the 2007 National Championship. Hayes was invited to the 2007 Youth Development Festival, a USA Basketball sponsored event for elite sophomores and juniors in high school, biennially at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. The 2007 event featured three teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Wheeler (basketball)
Erica Wheeler (born May 2, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Wheeler was undrafted out of Rutgers, but eventually made her way into the WNBA in 2015. Early life Wheeler grew up in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City. Liberty City is one of the worst, most crime-ridden inner cities in America, and Wheeler saw two of her close friends die when she was young. Wheeler attended Parkway Academy and was a member of the basketball team there. College career Wheeler committed to play at Rutgers in 2009. Rutgers reached the NCAA Tournament in each of her first three seasons. Wheeler contributed as a junior, leading the team in steals, and averaging just under 10 points per game. Prior to her senior year, Wheeler's mother died of cancer. However, Wheeler finished her senior season and graduated from Rutgers. Professional career WNBA Wheeler earned a try-out in 2015 for the Atlanta Dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matee Ajavon
Matee Ajavon (born May 7, 1986) is a Liberian-American basketball player. A 5'8" guard, Ajavon was chosen by the Houston Comets as the fifth overall draft pick in the 2008 WNBA draft. Early life As a child, Ajavon immigrated to the United States with her family from Monrovia, Liberia. High school Ajavon graduated from Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey. She led the Shabazz girls' basketball team to victory in the State of New Jersey's "Tournament of Champions" in both 2003 and 2004, the first time a school had repeated as champion. Ajavon was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored nine points. College Ajavon graduated from Rutgers University in 2008, having majored in Africana Studies. She was a key member of the 2006–2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team that reached the NCAA Championship game. College statistics Source USA Basketball Ajavon played for the USA team in the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chucky Jeffery
Janeesa "Chucky" Jeffery (born May 8, 1991) is a professional basketball player who last played for the New York Liberty of the WNBA. She played college basketball at the University of Colorado. Career statistics WNBA Regular season , - , align="left" , 2013 , align="left" , New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ... , 2, , 0, , 3.0, , 0.0, , 0.0, , 100.0, , 0.5, , 0.0, , 1.0, , 0.0 , , , 1.0 , - , align="left" , 2014 , align="left" , 2014 New York Liberty season, New York , 15, , 0, , 4.8, , 41.2, , 0.0, , 25.0, , 1.0, , 0.2, , 0.4, , 0.1, , 0.3, , 1.0 , - , align="left" , Career , align="left" , 2 years, 1 team , 17, , 0, , 4.6, , 36.8, , 0.0, , 50.0, , 0.9, , 0.2, , 0.5, , 0.1 , , 0.2, , 1.0 College Source References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Oliver
Monique Olivier (born 13 May 1998 in South Africa) is a national record-holding swimmer from Luxembourg. She attended the International School of Luxembourg in Luxembourg City and has swum for Luxembourg at several international competitions, including the 2013 Games of the Small States of Europe, 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), and 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. As of March 2019, she holds Luxembourg records in long course An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (formerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Champion ... (50m) 200m,400m 800m and 1500 freestyle, 200m and 400 m individual medley and 200 butterfly, 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relay, as well as short course (25m)200m,400m,800m and 1500 freestyle, 200m and 400m individual medley and 200m butterfly References 1998 births Luxembourgian female swim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany Hrynko
Brittany "Ice" Hrynko (born April 24, 1993) is an American basketball player, currently signed with the Philadelphia Reign of the Women's Basketball Development Association since 2019 and has also played with the Harlem Globetrotters since 2018. She was drafted by the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association in the 2015 WNBA draft. She was then traded to the Atlanta Dream, but was released and later signed short-term contracts with the San Antonio Stars and Tulsa Shock. From 2015 to 2018 she signed with teams in Israel, Slovakia, Italy and Germany. College In Hrynko's final season at DePaul she averaged 19.1 points per game. She is DePaul's ninth WNBA draft pick. Career statistics WNBA Regular season , - , align="left" rowspan=2 , 2015 , align="left" , San Antonio , 5, , 0, , 3.0, , .167, , .000, , —, , 0.0, , 0.2, , 0.0, , 0.0, , 0.2, , 0.4 , - , align="left" , Tulsa Tulsa ( ) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut Sun
The Connecticut Sun are an American professional basketball team based in Uncasville, Connecticut. The Sun compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference (WNBA), Eastern Conference. The team is currently the only major league List of professional sports teams in Connecticut, professional sports team based in Connecticut. The team was established as the Orlando Miracle in 1999 WNBA season, 1999, during the league's Expansion team, expansion from ten to twelve teams, as a sister team to the National Basketball Association, NBA's Orlando Magic. In 2003, as financial strains left the team on the brink of disbanding, the Mohegan Tribe, Mohegan Indian tribe purchased and relocated the team to Mohegan Sun, becoming the first Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe to own a professional sports franchise. The team's name comes from its affiliation with Mohegan Sun and its logo is reflective of a modern interpretatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roneeka Hodges
Roneeka Hodges (born July 19, 1982) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the LSU Tigers and Florida State Seminoles. She was selected fifteenth overall by the Houston Comets in the 2005 WNBA draft and played in the WNBA for eleven seasons with the Comets, Minnesota Lynx, San Antonio Silver Stars, Indiana Fever, Tulsa Shock, and Atlanta Dream. Hodges also had an extensive playing career overseas, playing in many different countries until 2019. Hodges started her coaching career in 2019 as a special advisor at LSU. She then worked as an assistant coach in the college ranks for the Old Dominion Monarchs and Colgate Raiders, before becoming an assistant coach in the WNBA with the New York Liberty and Connecticut Sun. Personal life Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, she is the twin sister of former WNBA player Doneeka H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
