Sophia Yvonne Ashley Young-Malcolm (born December 15, 1983) is a Vincentian-American former professional

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player. She played with the

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in the

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(WNBA). Young-Malcolm has since been inducted into the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

High school years

She was born on Saint Vincent,

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. Young attended the Evangel Christian Academy in

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, United States.

College career

Young was an

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and helped lead the team, nicknamed the ''Lady Bears'', to their first national championship during the

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, defeating

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

. She is one of only four women in

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history to score 2,000 points, grab 1,000 rebounds, collect 300 steals, as well as dish out 300 assists. *Big 12 10th Anniversary Team (only active player named to the five person squad) *Big 12 Player of the Year *Kodak

(second straight year) *AP All-American (first team) *USBWA All-American (second straight year) *All-Tournament team Albuquerque Regional *

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Championship All-Tournament team (third straight year) * Wooden Award Finalist *

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Finalist *Naismith Trophy Watch List *All-Big 12 first team (third straight year) *All-Big 12 Defensive team *Bayer Senior CLASS Award Finalist *Big 12 Player of the Week (three-time) *Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (4.0 GPA)

College statistics

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WNBA career

Young was selected as the fourth overall pick in the 2006 WNBA draft by the

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. During her nine-year career, all with the Stars, she was named to the Western Conference WNBA All-Star team three times.

USA Basketball

Young was one of 21 finalists for the U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team Roster for the 2010-2012 cycle. The 20 professional women's basketball players, plus one collegiate player (

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), were selected by the USA Basketball Women's National Team Player Selection Committee to compete for the final roster which will represent the US at the 2012 Olympics in

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. Young was named to the National team training pool again for the 2014-2016 cycle on 13 January 2014.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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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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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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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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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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Postseason

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Personal life

She is married to Jermaine Malcolm and the mother of two children, Skye and Sevyn. Young-Malcolm holds a Bachelors Degree in Education from

. Along with a master's degree in education from the

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and another master's degree in Christian ministries from the Liberty Theological Seminary. In August 2013, Young said that she was against

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, in response to San Antonio – where she was playing at the time – proposing legislature adding gender identity and sexual orientation to the city’s non-discrimination laws. Her comments were decried by LGBT advocacy groups and fans, as well as Laurel J. Richie, then-president of the WNBA, and four-time league MVP

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Awards and achievements

* 2008–2009 FIBA Eurocup Winner with

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* 2009 WNBA All-Star Selection

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