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2003 WNBA draft

{{Short description|2003 meeting of WNBA teams to select players}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox sports draft

| name = 2003 WNBA draft

| image =

| caption =

| logo =

| logosize =

| sport = Basketball

| date = April 24, 2003

| location =

| network =

| league = WNBA

| teams =

| merging_teams = Miami Sol
Portland Fire
(both teams folded in 2002)

| first = LaToya Thomas
Cleveland Rockers

| territorial =

| prev = 2002

| next = 2004

}}

The 2003 WNBA draft, both the dispersal draft and the annual WNBA draft, took place on April 24, 2003.

The dispersal draft involved players from the rosters of the Portland Fire and Miami Sol teams which had both folded after the 2002 season. For that reason, Miami's picks obtained in trades were lost.{{cite web |title=PLUS: W.N.B.A.; Dispersal Draft Scatters 2 Rosters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/sports/plus-wnba-dispersal-draft-scatters-2-rosters.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 25, 2003 |access-date=May 21, 2025}} Former Sol and Fire players not selected in the dispersal draft became unrestricted free agents.{{cite web |title=Detroit adds Riley with top pick |url=https://www.espn.com/wnba/news/2003/0424/1544361.html |work=ESPN |date=April 25, 2003 |access-date=May 23, 2025}} The order of selection was determined by teams' 2002 regular season records, going from worst to first.

Along with the folding of the Fire and the Sol, two teams moved to new cities. The Utah Starzz moved from Salt Lake City, Utah, to San Antonio, Texas, changing their name to the San Antonio Silver Stars, and the Orlando Miracle moved from Orlando, Florida, to Uncasville, Connecticut, to become the Connecticut Sun. The Sun became the first franchise not to be based in a city that also was home to an NBA franchise.

The draft itself also changed. Instead of the previous four-round format, the 2003 draft shrank to its current format of only three rounds.

Key

{{WNBA Draft legend|1=y|2=y|3=y|4=y|6=y|7=y}}

Draft

=Round 1=

class="wikitable sortable"
style="width:5%;"| Pick

! style="width:20%;"| Player

! style="width:5%;"| Position

! style="width:20%;"| Nationality

! style="width:25%;"| Team

! style="width:25%;"| School / club team

1

| LaToya Thomas

| F

| {{USA}}

| Cleveland Rockers

| Mississippi State

2

| Chantelle Anderson

| C

| {{LIB}}

| Sacramento Monarchs

| Vanderbilt

3

| bgcolor="#FBCEB1"|Cheryl Ford *

| C

| {{USA}}

| Detroit Shock

| Louisiana Tech

4

| bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Plenette Pierson +

| F

| {{USA}}

| Phoenix Mercury

| Texas Tech

5

| bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Kara Lawson +

| G

| {{USA}}

| Detroit Shock (from Connecticut, traded to Sacramento)

| Tennessee

6

| Gwen Jackson

| F

| {{USA}}

| Indiana Fever

| Tennessee

7

| Aiysha Smith

| C

| {{USA}}

| Washington Mystics

| LSU

8

| Jung Sun-min

| C

| {{KOR}}

| Seattle Storm

| Gwangju Sinsegye Coolcats (South Korea)

9

| Jocelyn Penn

| F

| {{USA}}

| Charlotte Sting

| South Carolina

10

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Molly Creamer #

| G

| {{USA}}

| New York Liberty

| Bucknell

11

| Coretta Brown

| G

| {{USA}}

| San Antonio Silver Stars

| North Carolina

12

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Allison Curtin #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Houston Comets (traded to Detroit)

| Tulsa

=Round 2=

class="wikitable sortable"
style="width:5%;"| Pick

! style="width:20%;"| Player

! style="width:5%;"| Position

! style="width:20%;"| Nationality

! style="width:25%;"| Team

! style="width:25%;"| School / club team

13

| Courtney Coleman

| F

| {{USA}}

| Connecticut Sun (from Detroit)

| Ohio State

14

| bgcolor=#98f5ff| Teresa Edwards ^ !

| G

| {{USA}}

| Minnesota Lynx

| Georgia

15

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Jennifer Butler #

| C

| {{USA}}

| Cleveland Rockers

| Massachusetts

16

| Petra Ujhelyi

| F/C

| {{HUN}}

| Phoenix Mercury (traded to Detroit)

| South Carolina

17

| Erin Thorn

| G

| {{USA}}

| New York Liberty (from Sacramento)

| BYU

18

| Jordan Adams

| C

| {{CAN}}

| Minnesota Lynx (from Miami)

| New Mexico

19

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Lori Nero #

| F/C

| {{USA}}

| Houston Comets (from Connecticut)

| Louisville

20

| DeTrina White

| F

| {{USA}}

| Indiana Fever

| LSU

21

| Zuzana Žirková

| G

| {{SVK}}

| Washington Mystics

| Gambrinus Sika Brno {{small|(Czech Republic)}}

22

| Suzy Batkovic

| C

| {{AUS}}

| Seattle Storm

| Valenciennes (France)

23

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Dana Cherry #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Charlotte Sting

| Arkansas

24

| Sonja Mallory

| C

| {{USA}}

| New York Liberty

| Georgia Tech

25

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Ke-Ke Tardy #

| F

| {{USA}}

| San Antonio Silver Stars

| LSU

26

| K. B. Sharp

| G

| {{USA}}

| New York Liberty (from Houston)

| Cincinnati

27

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Schuye LaRue #

| F

| {{USA}}

| Los Angeles Sparks

| Virginia

=Round 3=

class="wikitable sortable"
style="width:5%;"| Pick

! style="width:20%;"| Player

! style="width:5%;"| Position

! style="width:20%;"| Nationality

! style="width:25%;"| Team

! style="width:25%;"| School / club team

28

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Syreeta Bromfield #

| F

| {{USA}}

| Detroit Shock

| Michigan State

29

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Carla Bennett #

| C

| {{USA}}

| Minnesota Lynx

| Drake

30

| Shaquala Williams

| G

| {{USA}}

| Cleveland Rockers

| Oregon

31

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Telisha Quarles #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Phoenix Mercury (traded to Detroit)

| Virginia

32

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Trish Juhline #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Washington Mystics (from Sacramento)

| Villanova

33

| Marion Jones

| G

| {{USA}}

| Phoenix Mercury (from Miami)

| North Carolina

34

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Lindsey Wilson #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Connecticut Sun

| Iowa State

35

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Ashley McElhiney #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Indiana Fever

| Vanderbilt

36

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Tamara Bowie #

| F

| {{USA}}

| Washington Mystics

| Ball State

37

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Chrissy Floyd #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Seattle Storm

| Clemson

38

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Constance Jinks #

| G

| {{USA}}

| Houston Comets (from Charlotte)

| UNLV

39

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Nicole Kaczmarski #

| G

| {{USA}}

| New York Liberty

| UCLA

40

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Brooke Armistead #

| G

| {{USA}}

| San Antonio Silver Stars

| Austin Peay

41

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Oxana Rakhmatulina #

| G

| {{RUS}}

| Houston Comets

| CSKA Samara {{small|(Russia)}}

42

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Mary Jo Noon #

| C

| {{USA}}

| Los Angeles Sparks

| Purdue

See also

References

  • {{cite web | url=http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html | title=All-Time WNBA Draft List | accessdate=June 4, 2008 | publisher=WNBA | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509153954/http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html | archivedate=May 9, 2008 | url-status=dead }}

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