Sancho Lyttle (born September 20, 1983) is a Vincentian-Spanish former professional

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player for the WNBA. Combining the WNBA and the European season, she has won six domestic leagues and four Euroleague titles with four teams in three countries. She was born in

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and was granted Spanish nationality in June 2010. With the Spanish basketball team she has won four medals between 2010 and 2017.

Early life

Sancho Lyttle was born to Evelyn Little and Ian Cain. Members of her family spell their surname 'Lyttle' or 'Little'. Sancho has a younger brother, Xavier Little. Sancho attended St. Vincent Girls' High School where she played netball and ran various

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events. She never played basketball until prompted to do so after her move to the United States. She and three other girls from her country were requested by her Junior College and current assistant coach for the

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Women's team Wade Scott who offered to teach them how to play the game of basketball.

College career

Sancho Lyttle played collegiate basketball at Clarendon College before transferring to the

from 2003 to 2005 where she currently holds the record for single season rebound average (2004–2005), offensive rebounds (04-05) and most rebounds in a single season (04-05). She also holds the career record for highest rebounding average.

WNBA career

When the Houston Comets folded in 2008, Lyttle was selected first in the dispersal draft by the Atlanta Dream. She currently plays the power forward position for the

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in the WNBA. Over her career, Lyttle has scored 1,505 points, collected 1,041 rebounds, and has 200 assists, 242 steals, and 96 blocks through six seasons. She was the fifth overall draft pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft out of

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. In 2010, Lyttle had career highs in points and rebounds with 27 and 20, respectively. She was hospitalized for a number of days in 2010 after being knocked unconscious for a little over a minute by an incidental elbow during a game. Lyttle recovered and played 13 days later. On February 1, 2018, Lyttle signed with the

after spending the previous nine seasons with the Atlanta Dream. However, her season ended early when she tore her ACL on June 30, 2018. In September 2019, Little announced her retirement after 15 WNBA seasons.

WNBA stats

Euroleague career

Simultaneously to her WNBA career, she has played in Spain, Turkey and Russia, winning one Euroleague and at least one domestic league playing for every club. She currently plays for Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg

Euroleague stats

National team

Lyttle played her first and only tournament with native

in 2004, at the Caribbean championship. After her naturalization was granted in 2010, she made her debut with the senior Spanish team in 2010, days after turning 27. Up to 2017, she had 45 caps with 15.6 PPG and 9.5 RPP, participating in two

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and three European Championships. After helping the team qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio in mid-June, she missed the Games after breaking her toe in mid-July playing for the Atlanta Dream: * Bronze_medal_world_centered-2

2010 World Championship * 9th

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(''MVP'') * Silver_medal_world_centered-2

2014 World Championship * Gold_medal_europe

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Awards and achievements

* 2009, 2010 WNBA All-Star * Bronze medal in

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* Named to the

All-Tournament Team * Gold medal in EuroBasket Women 2013 * FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year (2013) * 2014—FIBA World Championship All-Star Five * Silver medal in

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