Brittany Brewer
{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1997)}}
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| league = WNBA
| position = Power forward
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 5
| weight_lb = 182
| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1997|11|6}}
| birth_place = Abilene, Texas
| high_school = Wylie (Abilene, Texas)
| college = Texas Tech (2016–2020)
| draft_league = WNBA
| draft_year = 2020
| draft_round = 2
| draft_pick = 17
| draft_team = Atlanta Dream
| career_start = 2020
| years1 = {{WNBA Year|2020}}
| team1 = Atlanta Dream
| years2 = 2020–2021
| team2 = Maccabi Haifa
| years3 = 2021–2022
| team3 = Ladies Liege Panthers
| years4 = 2022–2023
| team4 = A.O. Eleutheria Moschatou
| years5 = 2023–present
| team5 = Araski AES
| years6 = 2024
| team6 = Halcones de Xalapa
| highlights =
- Women's Basketball Academic All-American of the Year (2020)
- Big 12 All-Defensive Team (2020)
- First-team All-Big 12 (2020)
- Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2017)
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{{MedalSport | Women's basketball}}
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Brittany Brewer (born November 6, 1997) is an American professional basketball player. She played in college for the Texas Tech Lady Raiders of the Big 12 Conference. Brewer is the 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year.{{Cite press release|url=https://academicallamerica.com/news/2020/3/9/2019-20-academic-all-america-ncaa-division-i-womens-basketball-teams-announced.aspx |title=2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Teams Announced |publisher=College Sports Information Directors of America |language=en |date=March 9, 2020 |access-date=April 17, 2020}} She was also selected as a First-team Academic All-American in 2019.{{Cite press release|url=https://academicallamerica.com/news/2019/3/11/2018-19-google-cloud-academic-all-america-ncaa-division-i-womens-basketball-team-announced.aspx |title=2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Team Announced |publisher=College Sports Information Directors of America |date=March 11, 2019 |access-date=April 17, 2020}}
College career
Brewer started 17 games in each of her freshman and sophomore seasons with the Lady Raiders. In the 2018–19 season, she started all 31 games as a junior and added 3-point shootings to her repertoire; averaging 34.3% on 99 attempts while attempting none in her prior two years. In the 2019–20 season, Brewer once again started all 29 games as a senior and averaged a double-double of 16.6 ppg and 10.3 rpg.
During her senior year, she also tied the NCAA Division I women's single-game record for blocked shots, recording 16 as part of a triple-double in the Lady Raiders' 83–38 rout of Louisiana–Monroe on December 22, 2019.{{cite news|url=https://www.lubbockonline.com/sports/20191222/brewer-nets-first-triple-double-in-22-years-as-lady-raiders-roll-to-10th-straight-win-before-holiday-break |title=Brewer nets first triple-double in 22 years as Lady Raiders roll to 10th straight win before holiday break |first=Carlos |last=Silva Jr. |newspaper=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |date=December 22, 2019 |accessdate=March 24, 2020}}
Professional career
Brewer was selected with the fifth pick in the second round, 17th overall, of the 2020 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream.
Career statistics
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=College=
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left; | 2016–17
| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech
| 31 || 17 || 22.3 || .452 || .000 || .604 || 5.7 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 1.7 || 1.5 || 5.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18
| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech
| 30 || 17 || 20.2 || .490 || .000 || .531 || 5.0 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 1.3 || 2.4 || 9.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19
| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech
| 31 || 31 || 31.0 || .528 || .343 || .692 || 9.1 || 1.2 || 0.7 || 2.3 || 2.5 || 16.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20*
| style="text-align:left;"| Texas Tech
| 29 || 29 || 31.5 || .509 || .243 || .675 || 10.3 || 0.9 || 0.7 || 4.4 || 2.5 || 16.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 121 || 94 || 26.2 || .495 || .146 || .625 || 7.5 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 2.4 || 2.3 || 12.1
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* 2020 NCAA tournament cancelled due to coronavirus disease pandemic
=WNBA=
==Regular season==
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|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| Atlanta
| 5 || 0 || 6.6 || .667 || – || – || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.6 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.8
{{S-end}}
Source: basketball-reference.com{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/wnba/players/b/brewebr01w.html|title=Brittany Brewer WNBA stats|website=Basketball Reference|accessdate=14 September 2020}}
Personal life
Brittany Brewer is the daughter of Jacob and Melanie Brewer. She has four siblings: Brianna, Brooklyn, Joy and Josh. Brewer majored in Community, Family and Addiction Sciences at Texas Tech.
References
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{{2020 WNBA draft}}
{{Women's Basketball Academic All-America of the Year}}
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Category:American women's basketball players
Category:Atlanta Dream draft picks
Category:Atlanta Dream players
Category:Basketball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Category:Basketball players from Texas
Category:Sportspeople from Abilene, Texas
Category:Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball players
Category:Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in basketball