Donnette Jé-Michelle Snow (born March 20, 1980) is an American former professional

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player who played most recently in the

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Early life

Born and raised in

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, Snow led

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to the state championship and was named "Miss Basketball" in 1998. Snow was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game

College career

Snow was a

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major at the

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. She played alongside Tennessee graduates like

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. On November 30, 2000, Snow became just the third woman in

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college basketball history to dunk during a game. She did so against the

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, University of South Carolina and Vanderbilt University.

USA Basketball

She competed with

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as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in

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. Snow was named to the National Team representing the US at the 2006 World Championships, held in

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and

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. The team won eight of their nine contests, but the lone loss came in the semifinal medal round to Russia. The USA beat Brazil in the final game to earn the bronze medal. Snow averaged 2.8 points per game and was second on the team with six blocks.

WNBA career

Snow was drafted 10th overall by the Houston Comets in the 1st round of the 2002 WNBA draft. Her nickname is "Shell". Snow has a 7'1" reach which helped her to become one of the best shot blockers in the WNBA. In 2003, Snow was named most improved player of the year. In the 2006 WNBA all-star game, Snow became the second WNBA player to dunk in an all-star game. After the Comets disbanded in late 2008, she later played for the

Atlanta Dream The Atlanta Dream are an American professional basketball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Dream compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team was founded for the ...

. She was traded to the

San Antonio Silver Stars The San Antonio Stars were a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Utah Starzz before th ...

on March 11, 2010. She was again traded to the

Chicago Sky The Chicago Sky are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Sky compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The franchise was founded prior to the 2006 season. Th ...

on April 20, 2011. Snow signed 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 ...

on February 9, 2012. On September 9, 2015, Snow signed with the

Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Sparks are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Sparks compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at Crypto.co ...

for the rest of the season, only playing two games of the Sparks' season. She became a free agent at the end of the 2015 season.

NWBL career

Snow played on the championship team of the 2003 Houston Stealth in the NWBL.

Overseas career

She played for Elitzur Ramla in Israel during the 2007–08 WNBA off-season, winning a championship with the team. She had been playing for Salamanca in Spain during the 2008–09 WNBA off-season. During the 2009–2012 off-seasons she played for Dynamo Kursk in the Russian Superleague A, winning a EuroCup with the team in 2012. In the 2014–2015 WNBA off-season, Snow played in the Turkish Superleague for

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. In May 2016, Snow re-signed with Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi for the 2016–17 WNBA off-season. For the 2017–2018 season, which she announced would be her last, Snow first played at Bornova Becker (Turkey – KBSL) before moving to Adana ASKI Mersin in the same league, where she earned honorable mention for the All-League Teams.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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Playoffs

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College

References

External links

WNBA player profile
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