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SEVEN CONSECUTIVE <strong>WNBA</strong> PLAYOFF APPEARANCES<br />
PRO - OVERSEAS<br />
2011-12: She averaged 15.2 points in EuroLeague play for<br />
Nadezhda Orenburg in Russia. Nadezhda advanced to the<br />
Russian League championship series with Douglas averaging 12.5<br />
points in domestic league action. She posted a season-high 27<br />
points in Game 2 of a EuroLeague series against Spartak Moscow<br />
Region.<br />
2010-11: Douglas played for Spanish power Ros Casares<br />
where she averaged 13.8 points per game…she was named a<br />
Eurobasket.<strong>com</strong> All-EuroLeague second-team performer while<br />
leading Ros Casares to the Spanish League finals.<br />
2009-10: Douglas played for Galatasaray in Istanbul, Turkey.<br />
2008-09: Playing in 11 Euroleague games for CSKA Moscow,<br />
she averaged 12.7 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.3 apg and 1.6 spg…in 18<br />
Superleague games, she averaged 12.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.2 apg and<br />
1.9 spg (7th in league).<br />
2007-08: Playing for Ros Casares Valencia in Spain, she<br />
averaged 11.9 ppg and 4.0 rpg in 23 regular season<br />
contests…she shot nearly 61 percent from the floor (88-145, .606)<br />
and 37 percent (25-68) from 3-pt range.<br />
2004-05 to 2006-07: Douglas spent three winters with TEO<br />
Vilnius in Lithuania, where she teamed with Fever forward Ebony<br />
Hoffman in 2006-07…she led the FIBA EuroLeague in scoring<br />
during the 2005-06 season and was the league’s leading votegetter<br />
in the inaugural FIBA EuroLeague Women All-Star Game in<br />
2005-06.<br />
2002-03 to 2003-04: She played in Greece for two seasons,<br />
<strong>com</strong>peting for Ana Liosia Basketball (2002-03) and S.U. Glyfada<br />
Esperides Kyklos (2003-04).<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
2007-08: Douglas was a member of the U.S. National Team<br />
and narrowly missed landing a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic<br />
Team…she aided the 2007-08 USA Basketball Senior National<br />
Team to a 4-0 slate during its 2007 Tour of Italy, averaging 8.0 in<br />
the two games she <strong>com</strong>peted…she was named to the 2007-08<br />
USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team on March 6,<br />
2007.<br />
1999: Douglas was a member of the 1999 USA World<br />
University Games Team that brought home the silver medal with a<br />
4-2 record in Palma de Mallorca, Spain…she started three of five<br />
games played and averaged team-highs of 17.7 ppg. and 2.4 apg.<br />
to go with 3.8 rpg.<br />
1998: She was a member of the 1998 USA Select Team that<br />
posted a 7-1 record in contests against national teams from Spain,<br />
Poland and Puerto Rico, and averaged 4.1 ppg. and 3.4 rpg.<br />
COLLEGE<br />
Douglas helped Purdue to an NCAA championship as a<br />
sophomore in 1999…it was the first NCAA title in Boilermaker<br />
history…a three-year starter for the Boilermakers, she was a two-<br />
#23 KATIE DOUGLAS<br />
time First Team All-American by Kodak/WBCA and the U.S.<br />
Basketball Writers Association (2000, 2001)…she was an<br />
Associated Press First Team All-American in 2001…Douglas<br />
paced Purdue to the national title game twice, winning it in<br />
1999…named the 2001 Big Ten Player of the Year as a senior,<br />
she left the West Lafayette campus as the only player in Purdue<br />
history to rank in the top 10 in points (fourth with 1,965 points),<br />
rebounds (ninth with 727 rebounds), assists (third with 526 assists)<br />
and steals (first with 327)…during the 2001 NCAA Tournament,<br />
she averaged 19.2 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 4.5 apg and 3.3 spg...she was<br />
named to the 1999 and 2001 NCAA Women’s Final Four All-<br />
Tournament Teams...she was awarded the 2001 Silver Basketball<br />
Award by the Chicago Tribune for being the Most Valuable Player<br />
in the Big Ten Conference…she also was the first athlete to<br />
receive the Jim Valvano Comeback Player of the Year Award in<br />
2001…a recipient of the 2001 Big Ten Suzy Favor Award, she was<br />
also an Academic All-American and Academic All-District selection<br />
as a junior and senior…she was honored by her school as the<br />
recipient of the 2001 Mackey Award, Varsity Walk Award and the<br />
Purdue Athlete of the Year (2000 and 2001)…Douglas led Purdue<br />
in scoring her senior (15.5 ppg) and junior (20.4 ppg)<br />
seasons...she received the 2000 Purdue-Indiana Barn Burner<br />
Trophy MVP Award.<br />
PERSONAL<br />
Her full name is Kathryn Elizabeth Douglas...she goes by the<br />
nickname KT...born in Indianapolis, she is a graduate of Perry<br />
Meridian High School where she was runner-up as Indiana Miss<br />
Basketball in 1997…she has an older sister, Kim Rastrelli, and two<br />
older brothers, Brian and Scott…she married Vasilis Giapalakis in<br />
September 2005, in Greece…she was named one of ESPN.<strong>com</strong>’s<br />
Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Players of the Past 25<br />
Years…she was one of five Purdue players who had their jersey<br />
retired during Purdue’s inaugural ceremony at the beginning of the<br />
2003 season…her favorite on-court moment is throwing the ball in<br />
the air after winning the 1999 NCAA Championship... she was<br />
elected into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in<br />
April 2009…she was a <strong>com</strong>munications major at Purdue…she is<br />
an enthusiastic supporter of the <strong>WNBA</strong>’s Breast Health Awareness<br />
initiative and Race for the Cure...she lists winning the 2001 Jim<br />
Valvano Award as her proudest achievement...a fantasy job would<br />
be to work in the FBI…she hates scary movies, but loves shopping<br />
and is an active user of all the latest gadgets...her favorite cuisines<br />
include Greek, Italian and Middle Eastern...her favorite U.S. city,<br />
besides Indianapolis, of course, is New York…her favorite city in<br />
the world is Athens...a favorite vacation spot is Maui…she wears<br />
No. 23 with the Fever, changing from her former No. 32 at Purdue<br />
and with the Connecticut Sun, because the jersey was already<br />
occupied by Ebony Hoffman…she originally wore No. 23 in high<br />
school in honor of her favorite baseball player, Ryne Sandberg.<br />
In 2011, Douglas became the first player in <strong>WNBA</strong> history to record 500 3-point field goals and 500 steals.<br />
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