Blake Julia Dietrick (born July 19, 1993) is an American professional

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player who is a free agent. She played previously for the

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and the

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 ...

in the

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(WNBA), and the

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in Spain. She played

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Princeton Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the Unit ...

High school and college

Born in

Wellesley, Massachusetts Wellesley () is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Wellesley is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 29,550 at the time of the 2020 census. Wellesley College, Babson College, and a campus of M ...

, Dietrick played basketball for

Wellesley High School Wellesley High School is a public high school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, educating students on grades 9 through 12. The principal is Jamie Chisum, who took the position in 2014 after the departure of Andrew Keough. As of 202 ...

, where she scored a school record 1,440 career points, leading the team to an 84–9 record during that time. Dietrick was also a three-time All-American in lacrosse, earning first team US Lacrosse honors her sophomore through senior years. In her final season for Princeton, Dietrick was named

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Player of the Year and chosen as an All-American honorable mention by the

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and

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. She also led the Ivy League in assists (4.9/game) while setting her school's single-season assists record (157). Princeton went 30–0 during regular season, won the conference outright, received a bid to the

2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2015 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was played between March and April 2015, with the Final Four played April 5 & 7. The regional locations, after a one-year experiment allowing tournament teams to host, returned to four neut ...

and advanced to the second round.

Professional career

In 2016, she was chosen as a free agent by the

and played in two games. She later signed a 7-day contract with the

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and played in one game. She then went on to play for a year for the

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of Australia's WNBL. From 2017 to 2018, she was on the Greek AO Dafni Agioy Dimitriou team. In 2015, she had training camp stints with the

Washington Mystics The Washington Mystics are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Mystics compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference (WNBA), Eastern Conference. The team was ...

and

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but was later waived. In the 2022–23 season, she won the

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and the

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with her team

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Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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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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San Antonio San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...

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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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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. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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Playoffs

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College

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References

External links

Princeton Tigers bio
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dietrick, Blake 1993 births Living people American women's basketball players Atlanta Dream players Basketball players from Massachusetts Sportspeople from Wellesley, Massachusetts Point guards Princeton Tigers women's basketball players Princeton Tigers women's lacrosse players San Antonio Stars players Seattle Storm players Undrafted Women's National Basketball Association players Wellesley High School alumni Basketball players at the 2023 Pan American Games 3x3 basketball players at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in basketball Pan American Games 3x3 basketball players 21st-century American sportswomen Lacrosse players from Massachusetts