Sharnee Zoll-Norman (born July 11, 1986) is an American former professional

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player. Zoll-Norman played throughout Europe and most recently with the

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of the WNBA. On April 11, 2024, Zoll-Norman was named an assistant coach at Virginia Tech.

Personal

Zoll was born in

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to Cheryl and Tony Zoll. She is the only child of Cheryl and shares her father with brothers Chris and Dustin Myers. Cheryl is a retired veteran of the Armed Forces. She lived on

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for the majority of her life and also resided in Sembach, Germany while her mother was stationed there. Zoll moved to

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before her freshman year to attend Marlboro High School, a school her mother chose for the quality of both its academics and basketball. She attended Marlboro for her first three high school years before transferring to

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in the Blackwood section of

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until a June 2013 interview with the ''Windy City Times'', stating "If I was straight, I wouldn't have to come out and say that I was straight. So I've never had an official coming-out, or something where I felt I had to announce that I was gay. But everyone knows. I wear my wedding ring proudly; I have matching tattoos with my wife, and also have her name tattooed on me. We go a lot of places ogetherand I surely don't hide it hat she's my wife"

College career

Zoll played at the

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from 2004 to 2008, where she was a 1000-point scorer and two-time All-ACC third team honoree. She is most widely known for holding the

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assist record with 785 assists; previously held by

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, also a UVA alum. Sharnee is the only woman in ACC history to post three seasons of at least 200 assists and did so in succession from 2006 to 2008. In the summer of 2005, Zoll was named to the gold medal-winning USA U19 World Championship Team.

Virginia statistics

Source

USA Basketball

Zoll joined the USA Women's U18 team as it became the U19 team, and competed in the 2005 U19 World Championships in

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. The USA team won all eight games, winning the gold medal. Zoll averaged 2.9 points per game.

Professional career

Sharnee was drafted 29th overall in the

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to the

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. After being waived by the Sparks, she spent a short time with the

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before continuing her playing career overseas. In the 2008–2009 season, she signed with a Romanian club named Sepsi B.C.. Zoll led the Romanian league and EuroCup in assists. In the following season, Zoll signed with Botas Spor in

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. Again she led the Turkish league and EuroCup in assists. Till 2013 Zoll was playing with CCC Polkowice in Poland. She led the league in assists and assist-to-turnover ratio while leading CCC to its highest ever finish in the PLKK playoffs (2nd place). In 2011–12, Zoll's CCC Polkowice team participated in EuroLeague Women. She led the competition in assists per game at 6.6 while playing alongside current Spark

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. In 2012–13, Zoll's CCC Polkowice team won PLKK Champions title and Polish Cup as well. In the 2013–2014 season, she signed with a Polish club named KSSSE AZS PWSZ Gorzów Wielkopolski. Zoll-Norman was hired as an assistant coach for the University of Rhode Island women's basketball team in 2019. She is now an Assistant Coach for Penn State University Women's Basketball.https://gopsusports.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/sharnee-zoll-norman/1769

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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References

External links

*http://www.wnba.com/draft2008/zoll_080406.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20130520034946/http://plkk.pl/zawodniczki/p/29807/sharnee_zoll.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Zoll-Norman, Sharnee 1986 births Living people American women's basketball players Basketball players from Philadelphia Chicago Sky players Highland Regional High School alumni LGBTQ basketball players LGBTQ people from Pennsylvania American lesbian sportswomen Los Angeles Sparks draft picks Marlboro High School alumni Minnesota Lynx players Point guards Sportspeople from Gloucester Township, New Jersey Sportspeople from Marlboro Township, New Jersey Basketball players from Camden County, New Jersey Basketball players from Monmouth County, New Jersey 21st-century African-American sportswomen 21st-century American sportswomen 20th-century African-American sportswomen 20th-century American sportswomen