Stacey Dales (born September 5, 1979) is a Canadian-American former

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player and a current reporter on the

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. Dales was born in

Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay. Collingwood is well known as a tourist destination, for its skiing in the winter, and limestone caves along the Nia ...

, and raised in

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Basketball career

High school

Before attending the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...

, she attended Thousand Islands Secondary School (TISS) and Dales was a star for the TISS Pirates ladies basketball team during her high school years, Dales was a major reason why TISS captured three consecutive Ontario ‘AA’ high school senior girls basketball championships 1994, 1995 & 1996.

College

After graduating in 1997 she attended the

, Dales made an Olympic appearance for Canada in 2000 and was a first team

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in 2001 and 2002. She was named the 2001 and 2002

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Player of the Year and is the Big 12 all-time career assist leader (764). In 2002, she was the all-sports

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of the Year. She was the first Oklahoma player to record 1,700 points, 600 rebounds and 700 assists. During her senior year she led the Sooners to the NCAA Championship game where they lost to Connecticut.

WNBA

Dales was drafted third overall in 2002 by the

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, the highest pick ever for a Canadian. That year she was named to the All-Star team as a replacement. When she was with Washington, she was diagnosed with

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in her hands. In 2004, she announced her retirement from the league for the first time. After a one-year retirement, Dales joined the

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, who picked her in the expansion draft of 2006 after Washington left her unprotected. On April 5, 2008, Dales announced her retirement from the WNBA for the second time. She ranked 4th in the WNBA for 3-pointers made (62) and 2nd in 3-point attempts (201) in 2007.

Television

From 2002-2008, Dales served as a men's and women's

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analyst, as well as a sideline reporter for college football and the NBA, on

ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...

. Dales was the first woman at

to work as an in-studio men's basketball analyst. In August 2009 the

announced that it hired Dales to serve as host and national reporter/correspondent for

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Media Programming. Dales is currently in her tenth year, entering her eleventh

season, with the

. For the

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, Dales was hired by NBC Universal Sports to work as a correspondent. Dales has also served as a sideline reporter for

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covering primetime

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games as well as for

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...

covering primetime

games. In 2018 and 2019 Dales was hired as a brand ambassador and spokesperson for

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in connection with its long running partnership with the

Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Okla ...

Basketball Tournament. In 2018,

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announced that it hired Dales to serve as color analyst for women's college basketball coverage for the 2018–2019 season.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

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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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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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Playoffs

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College

Personal life

Dales' brother

Burke Burke (; ) is a Normans in Ireland, Norman-Irish surname, deriving from the ancient Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman noble dynasty, the House of Burgh. In Ireland, the descendants of William de Burgh (''circa'' 1160–1206) had the surname'' de B ...

played 10 seasons in the

Canadian Football League The Canadian Football League (CFL; , LCF) is a Professional gridiron football, professional Canadian football league in Canada. It comprises nine teams divided into two divisions, with four teams in the East Division (CFL), East Division and f ...

, retiring in 2014. Her cousin,

Jason Arnott Jason William Arnott (born October 11, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He began his National Hockey League career with the Edmonton Oilers in 1993–94 after being selected seventh overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft ...

, played 18 seasons in the

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, retiring in 2013. Dales was inducted into Brockville's Hall of Fame in June 2016, alongside her brother Burke.

References

External links

Player ProfileInterview with The Oklahoman
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dales, Stacey 1979 births Living people All-American college women's basketball players Basketball people from Ontario Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States Canadian sports announcers Canadian women's basketball players Chicago Sky players College basketball announcers in the United States College football announcers NBA broadcasters NFL announcers NFL Network people Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Canada Point guards Sportspeople from Brockville Sportspeople from Collingwood, Ontario Washington Mystics players Women's college basketball announcers in the United States WNBA All-Stars Women sports commentators Canada women's national basketball team players Chicago Sky draft picks 20th-century Canadian sportswomen