Michelle Snow

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Michelle Snow

| image = Michelle Snow WNBA.jpg

| caption = Snow with the Chicago Sky in 2011

| image_size = 275px

| position = Power forward / center

| height_ft = 6 | height_in = 5

| weight_lbs = 170

| team =

| number = 2

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|3|20}}

| birth_place = Pensacola, Florida, U.S.

| high_school = Pensacola (Pensacola, Florida)

| college = Tennessee (1998–2002)

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2002

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 10

| draft_team = Houston Comets

| career_start = 2002

| career_end = 2018

| years1 = 2002–2008

| team1 = Houston Comets

| years2 = 2007–2008

| team2 = Elitzur Ramla

| years3 = 2008–2009

| team3 = Salamanca

| years4 = 2009

| team4 = Houston Stealth

| years5 = 2009

| team5 = Atlanta Dream

| years6 = 2009–2012

| team6 = Dynamo Kursk

| years7 = 2010

| team7 = San Antonio Silver Stars

| years8 = 2011

| team8 = Chicago Sky

| years9 = 2012–2013

| team9 = Washington Mystics

| years10 = 2014–2015

| team10 = Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi

| years11 = 2015

| team11 = Los Angeles Sparks

| years12 = 2016–2018

| team12 = Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi

| highlights =

2× WNBA All-Star (2005, 2006)
WNBA Most Improved Player (2003)
NWBL champion (2003)
Israeli National League champion (2008)
EuroCup winner (2012)
First-team All-SEC (2001)

| medal_templates =

{{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }}

| wnba_profile = michelle_snow

}}

Donnette Jé-Michelle Snow (born March 20, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played most recently in the Turkish Women's Basketball League.

Early life

Born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, Snow led Pensacola High School to the state championship and was named "Miss Basketball" in 1998. Snow was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game

College career

Snow was a psychology major at the University of Tennessee. She played alongside Tennessee graduates like Kara Lawson. On November 30, 2000, Snow became just the third woman in NCAA college basketball history to dunk during a game. She did so against the University of Illinois, University of South Carolina and Vanderbilt University.

USA Basketball

She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in Taipei.

Snow was named to the National Team representing the US at the 2006 World Championships, held in Barueri and São Paulo, Brazil. The team won eight of their nine contests, but the lone loss came in the semifinal medal round to Russia. The USA beat Brazil in the final game to earn the bronze medal. Snow averaged 2.8 points per game and was second on the team with six blocks.

WNBA career

Snow was drafted 10th overall by the Houston Comets in the 1st round of the 2002 WNBA draft. Her nickname is "Shell". Snow has a 7'1" {{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} reach which helped her to become one of the best shot blockers in the WNBA.

In 2003, Snow was named most improved player of the year.

In the 2006 WNBA all-star game, Snow became the second WNBA player to dunk in an all-star game.

After the Comets disbanded in late 2008, she later played for the Atlanta Dream. She was traded to the San Antonio Silver Stars on March 11, 2010.{{Cite news|url=http://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/stars/news/silver_stars_trade_for_michelle_snow_100311.html|title=Silver Stars Trade For Michelle Snow|work=NBA.com|access-date=September 16, 2017}} She was again traded to the Chicago Sky on April 20, 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/sky/the_sky_acquires_michelle_snow_2011_04_20.html|title=SKY: The Sky Acquires Michelle Snow in trade for Jia Perkins|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=September 16, 2017}} Snow signed with the Washington Mystics on February 9, 2012.{{Cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/wnba/mystics/story/2012-02-09/michelle-snow-mystics-deal/53031984/1|title=Mystics sign free-agent center Michelle Snow|work=USATODAY.COM|access-date=September 16, 2017}} On September 9, 2015, Snow signed with the Los Angeles Sparks for the rest of the season,{{Cite news|url=http://sparks.wnba.com/sparks-sign-wnba-veteran-center-michelle-snow/|title=SPARKS SIGN WNBA VETERAN CENTER MICHELLE SNOW - Los Angeles Sparks|work=Los Angeles Sparks|access-date=September 16, 2017|language=en-US}} only playing two games of the Sparks' season. She became a free agent at the end of the 2015 season.

NWBL career

Snow played on the championship team of the 2003 Houston Stealth in the NWBL.

Overseas career

She played for Elitzur Ramla in Israel during the 2007–08 WNBA off-season, winning a championship with the team. She had been playing for Salamanca in Spain during the 2008–09 WNBA off-season. During the 2009–2012 off-seasons she played for Dynamo Kursk in the Russian Superleague A, winning a EuroCup with the team in 2012.

In the 2014–2015 WNBA off-season, Snow played in the Turkish Superleague for Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi.{{cite web|title=Michelle Snow basketball profile|url=http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Michelle_Snow/Turkey/Mersin_BSH_Bld/80106?Women=1|website=eurobasket.com|publisher=Sports I.T.|access-date=August 4, 2015}} In May 2016, Snow re-signed with Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi for the 2016–17 WNBA off-season.{{Cite news|url=http://www.eurobasket.com/Turkey/news/448336/Mersin-Basketbal-lands-Michelle-Snow,-ex-Bnot-Hertzeliya|title=EUROBASKET NEWS|work=www.eurobasket.com|access-date=September 16, 2017}} For the 2017–2018 season, which she announced would be her last,{{cite web |last1=Vilona |first1=Bill |title=Pensacola's Michelle Snow has mapped out life after basketball |url=https://www.pnj.com/story/sports/2017/08/17/bill-vilona-pensacolas-michelle-snow-has-mapped-out-life-after-basketball/576288001/ |website=pnj.com |publisher=Pensacola News Journal |access-date=July 21, 2018 |date=August 17, 2017}} Snow first played at Bornova Becker (Turkey – KBSL) before moving to Adana ASKI Mersin in the same league, where she earned honorable mention for the All-League Teams.{{cite web |title=Eurobasket.com All-Turkish KBSL Awards 2018 |url=https://www.eurobasket.com/Turkey/news/533037/Eurobasket.com-All-Turkish-KBSL-Awards-2018 |website=Eurobasket.com |access-date=July 21, 2018 |date=May 22, 2018}}

Career statistics

=WNBA=

==Regular season==

{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA regular season statistics}}

| align="left" | 2002

| align="left" | Houston

|32||2||15.0||46.9||50.0||59.6||3.7||0.4||0.4||0.8||0.7||3.9

| align="left" | 2003

| align="left" | Houston

|34||34||30.1||49.8||0.0||72.9||7.7||1.2||1.0||1.8||2.0||9.2

| align="left" | 2004

| align="left" | Houston

|31||31||28.8||45.4||—||60.2||7.7||1.0||0.9||1.1||2.3||8.9

| align="left" | 2005

| align="left" | Houston

|33||33||29.3||55.1||—||70.8||6.8||1.2||0.6||1.2||2.0||12.0

| align="left" | 2006

| align="left" | Houston

|34||34||29.2||51.0||—||66.7||7.9||1.4||1.0||1.1||2.6||13.0

| align="left" | 2007

| align="left" | Houston

|34||34||26.2||49.3||—||76.8||6.8||1.4||0.5||1.0||2.7||10.8

| align="left" | 2008

| align="left" | Houston

|34||34||25.2||53.2||50.0||69.7||6.8||1.2||0.5||0.9||1.8||9.9

| align="left" | 2009

| align="left" | Atlanta

|34||2||14.8||47.9||0.0||76.1||4.3||0.5||0.4||0.5||1.1||5.4

| align="left" | 2010

| align="left" | San Antonio

|34||33||24.1||57.4||0.0||71.9||6.2||1.6||1.0||0.7||1.6||10.4

| align="left" | 2011

| align="left" | Chicago

|34||30||24.1||45.6||0.0||76.0||6.3||1.9||0.5||1.3||2.1||5.9

| align="left" | 2012

| align="left" | Washington

|32||21||20.1||52.3||0.0||77.8||5.4||0.6||0.6||0.8||1.7||5.9

| align="left" | 2013

| align="left" | Washington

|34||18||16.8||47.4||—||82.4||4.8||0.6||0.5||0.7||1.0||5.1

|- class="sortbottom"

| align="left" |2014

| colspan=13 align="center" |Did not appear in league

| align="left" | 2015

| align="left" | Los Angeles

|2||0||13.0||42.9||—||0.0||1.5||0.0||0.0||0.5||2.0||3.0

|- class="sortbottom"

| rowspan=2 align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 13 years, 6 teams

|402||306||23.6||50.6||18.2||70.4||6.2||1.1||0.7||1.0||1.8||8.4

|- class="sortbottom"

| align=center | All-Star

|2||0||15.7||50.0||—||66.6||7.0||1.0||0.5||0.5||0.0||8.0

==Playoffs==

| align="left" | 2002

| align="left" | Houston

|3||0||26.3||33.3||0.0||87.5||7.0||1.3||0.0||0.7||1.7||6.3

| align="left" | 2003

| align="left" | Houston

|3||3||29.7||40.0||—||62.5||9.7||1.7||1.3||1.3||1.7||8.3

| align="left" | 2005

| align="left" | Houston

|5||5||30.4||52.9||—||69.6||5.4||0.8||1.0||0.6||3.2||10.4

| align="left" | 2006

| align="left" | Houston

|2||2||28.5||58.8||—||91.7||6.0||2.0||1.0||3.0||1.0||15.5

| align="left" | 2009

| align="left" | Atlanta

|2||0||16.5||30.0||—||60.0||4.0||0.5||0.0||1.0||1.0||4.5

| align="left" | 2010

| align="left" | San Antonio

|2||2||19.0||33.3||—||66.7||4.0||2.0||0.5||0.0||1.5||7.0

| align="left" | 2013

| align="left" | Washington

|3||0||12.0||36.4||—||100.0||5.7||0.3||0.3||1.7||1.0||3.3

|- class="sortbottom"

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 7 years, 4 teams

|20||12||24.2||43.1||0.0||75.0||6.1||1.2||0.7||1.1||1.8||8.0

=College=

class="wikitable sortable"

|+NCAA statistics

!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

1998–99

|Tennessee

|34

|290

|60.0

|—

|51.9

|6.4

|0.4

|0.7

|1.4

|8.5

1999–00

|Tennessee

|37

|435

|55.5

|0.0

|62.9

|6.3

|0.4

|0.8

|1.3

|11.8

2000–01

|Tennessee

|33

|365

|57.2

|—

|60.8

|6.8

|0.8

|0.6

|1.4

|11.1

2001–02

|Tennessee

|33

|407

|50.4

|—

|75.3

|6.5

|0.5

|0.7

|1.7

|12.3

class="sortbottom"

|colspan=2 align=center| Career

|137

|1497

|55.3

|0.0

|63.9

|6.5

|0.5

|0.7

|1.4

|10.9

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[http://www.wnba.com/news/overseas_0708.html Offseason 2007-08: Overseas Roster]

[http://www.wnba.com/news/overseas_0809.html Offseason 2008-09: Overseas Roster]

}}