Shameka Delynn Christon (born February 15, 1982) is an American retired professional

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player who most recently played with the

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in the WNBA. She attended college at the

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, and was named the Player Of The Year in the

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during her 2004 senior year. She graduated with a

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degree in social work. She was selected by the Liberty as the fifth overall pick in the

2004 WNBA draft The 2004 in sports, 2004 WNBA draft was the eighth draft in the WNBA's history. It took place on April 17, 2004, at the NBA Entertainment Studios in Secaucus, NJ. Additionally, on January 6, 2004, the WBNA held a 2004 WNBA dispersal draft, disp ...

. Between WNBA seasons, she has played for two

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and Spanish club Rivas Futura. Her teammates on the Spanish squad included then-fellow Liberty player

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. Christon was invited to the USA Basketball Women's National Team training camp in the fall of 2009. Christon was one of twenty players named to the national team pool. Twelve of this group will be chosen to represent the US in the 2010 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics. In March 2010, Christon was traded to the

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in a three-team, multi-player deal. On February 8, 2012, Christon signed with the San Antonio Silver Stars. On March 24, 2015, Christon signed with the

,Mercury Sign Shameka Christon

Career statistics

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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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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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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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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Playoffs

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College career statistics

Source

USA Basketball

Christon was named to the USA Women's U19 team which represented the US in the 2001 U19 World's Championship, held in

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in July 2001. Christon scored 5.7 points per game, and helped the USA team to a 6–1 record and the bronze medal.

Awards and achievements

* 2009 WNBA All-Star Selection

External links

WNBA player profileSafsal player profile

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Christon, Shameka 1982 births Living people All-American college women's basketball players American women's basketball players Arkansas Razorbacks women's basketball players Basketball players from Arkansas Chicago Sky players 21st-century American sportswomen Hot Springs High School (Arkansas) alumni New York Liberty draft picks New York Liberty players Phoenix Mercury players San Antonio Stars players Shooting guards Sportspeople from Hot Springs, Arkansas WNBA All-Stars