Chantelle Denise Anderson ( ; born January 22, 1981) is a retired Lebanese-American collegiate and professional

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player who has played in the

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(WNBA) and overseas.

Personal

Chantelle Anderson was born in

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, to Maxine and Paul Anderson and is the oldest of four sisters.

College years

Anderson graduated from

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in 2003. In her last year she became Vanderbilt's all-time female leading scorer with 2,604 points as well as setting the Vanderbilt's Career Field Goal Percentage mark of 65.1%. She was named to the

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n team in 2001. Anderson was a member of the

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-winning

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Jones Cup Team in 2000 as well as being on the

-winning U.S. team at the

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in 2001. *Vanderbilt's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year. *Named as her team's 2001 co-MVP, along with Trials participant Ashley McElhiney. *Earned 2001

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Midwest Regional All-Tournament team honors after averaging 24.0 plays per game. *Named 2001 All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) first team and 2000 All-SEC second team. *Earned her SEC Tournament MVP honors in 2001. Anderson was also named to the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

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College

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WNBA career

Anderson was selected 2nd overall by the

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in the 2003 WNBA draft. She spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons with the Monarchs as a utility player. During the 2003 season she appeared in 26 games and averaged 1.6 points in 6.5 minutes per game. She scored a than career-high eight points on June 7 when the Monarchs played against the Los Angeles Sparks. She tallied 42 points in her rookie season with the Monarchs.2000 www.wnba.com/playerfile
In the 2004 season she appeared Appeared in 30 games. She scored a then career-high 10 points, twice against New York on July and again at Detroit as well as a career-high seven rebounds in the same game. During the 2004-05 off-season played for USVO in Valenciennes Cedex On May 18, 2005, after two seasons in Sacramento, the Monarchs traded Anderson to the San Antonio Silver Stars and would be one of only four Silver Stars players who would see action in all 34 games played that season. She made a career-high 18 points against the Los Angeles Sparks on July 3, 2006 and a career-high eight rebounds at New York on June 30. Anderson appeared in 20 games before fracturing her

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in her left leg in July 2006. She missed the rest of the season. then a torn Achilles tendon in January 2007. On February 6, 2008, Anderson was selected by the

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in the expansion draft, but before the 2008 season began, she suffered a torn ACL. Later on May 28, 2008 Chantelle Anderson was waived by the Atlanta Dream. Anderson was recovering from injury at the time. She was re-signed by the Dream on February 12, 2009, then waived again on May 31. In her WNBA career she played in 90 regular season games. On October 6, 2009 Anderson announced her retirement from professional basketball. In 2011, Anderson was honored at a halftime ceremony, including a highlight video of Anderson's career and the retirement of her jersey. At the time, she joined Wendy Scholtens as one of only two women's players to have their jerseys retired, and one of only four basketball players at Vanderbilt to have their jerseys retired, joining men's players Clyde Lee and Perry Wallace.

International career

2003-04: she played for MiZo-Pécsi VSK. She was injured at the halfway point of the season. During the 2004-05 WNBA offseason, Anderson played for USVO in Valenciennes, France, and averaged 9.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. Later, Anderson played for the

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Galatasaray and familiarly as Cimbom, is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul including basketball, wheelchair ...

club in

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. She became a naturalized citizen of

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in 2009 and represented their

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in the FIBA Asia Championship for Women.

After the WNBA

Anderson has worked as a color analyst for FSN and appeared on ''

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's MADE'' acting as a coach and advisor.

References

External links

Chantelleanderson.com
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2003 WNBA Draft prospect profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Chantelle 1981 births Living people Lebanese women's basketball players Lebanese women's basketball coaches American women's basketball players American women's basketball coaches American emigrants to Lebanon All-American college women's basketball players American expatriate basketball people in Turkey Basketball players from San Bernardino County, California Centers (basketball) Galatasaray S.K. (women's basketball) players Lebanese people of African-American descent Sportspeople from Loma Linda, California Sacramento Monarchs players San Antonio Stars players FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States Summer World University Games medalists in basketball Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball players Virginia Tech Hokies women's basketball coaches Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade United States women's national basketball team players Naturalised basketball players Atlanta Dream draft picks