Sherill Baker

{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (born 1982)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2011}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Sherill Baker

| image =

| nationality = {{flagicon|USA}} American

| league = Patriot League

| team = Bucknell Bison

| position = Associate head coach

| height_ft = 5 | height_in = 8

| weight_lbs = 125

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1982|12|3}}

| birth_place =

| high_school = Greater Atlanta Christian School (Norcross, Georgia)

| college = Georgia (2002–2006)

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2006

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 12

| draft_team = New York Liberty

| career_start = 2006

| career_end = 2009

| career_position = Point guard

| career_number = 10, 5, 9

| coach_start = 2014

| years1 = 2006–2007

| team1 = New York Liberty

| years2 = 2007

| team2 = Los Angeles Sparks

| years3 = 2008

| team3 = Indiana Fever

| years4 = 2009

| team4 = Detroit Shock

| cyears1 = 2014–2016

| cteam1 = Auburn (assistant)

| cyears2 = 2016–2019

| cteam2 = Kennesaw State (assistant)

| cyears3 = 2019–2023

| cteam3 = Georgia State (assistant)

| cyears4 = 2023–present

| cteam4 = Bucknell (assoc. head coach)

| highlights =

  • SEC Defensive Player of the Year (2006)
  • First-team All-SEC (2006)

| bbr_wnba = bakersh01w

| letter = b

}}

Sherill Shavette Baker (born December 3, 1982) is a current American collegiate women's basketball associate head coach with the Bucknell Bison and former professional women's basketball player in the WNBA, most recently with the Detroit Shock.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/transactions/WNBA_2009.html|title=2009 WNBA Transactions|accessdate=June 30, 2009}}

Baker attended Greater Atlanta Christian School, then attended college at the University of Georgia and graduated in 2006. Following her collegiate career, she was selected 12th overall in the 2006 WNBA draft by the New York Liberty and traded to the Los Angeles Sparks on June 20, 2007, in exchange for Lisa Willis.

She signed with the Indiana Fever on May 22, 2008.

She played for Elitzur Ramla in Israel during the 2007–08 WNBA off-season.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/news/overseas_0708.html|title=WNBA.com: Offseason 2007-08: Overseas Roster|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=2017-08-31}} She then spent the 2008-09 off-season in Israel again, this time for Maccabi Bnot Ashdod.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/news/overseas_0809.html|title=WNBA.com: Offseason 2008-09: Overseas Roster|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=2017-08-31}}

Career statistics

=WNBA career statistics=

{{WNBA player statistics legend}}

==Regular season==

{{WNBA player statistics start}}

|-

| align="left" | 2006

| align="left" | New York

|34||16||18.1||38.6||27.3||85.7||1.6||1.0||1.4||0.0||1.5||7.4

|-

| align="left" rowspan=2| 2007

| align="left" | New York

|3||0||4.3||100.0||100.0||0.0||0.3||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.7

|-

| align="left" | Los Angeles

|24||11||20.5||32.8||21.2||83.3||2.9||3.2||1.5||0.1||2.7||8.5

|-

| align="left" | 2008

| align="left" | Indiana

|13||0||8.5||32.4||0.0||73.5||1.7||1.2||0.7||0.1||0.8||3.8

|-

| align="left" | 2009

| align="left" | Detroit

|1||0||11.0||66.7||0.0||100.0||1.0||1.0||1.0||0.0||1.0||7.0

|-

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 1 year, 3 teams

|75||27||16.5||36.3||25.0||82.5||2.0||1.7||1.2||0.1||1.7||6.9

{{S-end}}

=College career statistics=

Source

{{NBA player statistics legend}}

class="wikitable"; style="text-align:center";

!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

2002-03

|Georgia

|30

|289

|.375

|.276

|.708

|4.3

|2.8

|3.0

|0.4

|9.6

2003-04

|Georgia

|35

|390

|.412

|.350

|.721

|3.8

|3.4

|3.0

|0.1

|11.1

2004-05

|Georgia

|34

|388

|.432

|.184

|.770

|4.6

|2.7

|2.5

|0.1

|11.4

2005-06

|Georgia

|32

|598

|.530

|.250

|.809

|4.7

|3.2

|4.7

|0.2

|18.7

colspan=2, align=center|Career

|131

|1665

|.445

|.268

|.761

|4.4

|3.0

|3.3

|0.2

|12.7

See also

References

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{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Women's Basketball Player stats|date=|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careersearch|website=NCAA|accessdate=26 Sep 2015}}

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