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SEVEN CONSECUTIVE <strong>WNBA</strong> PLAYOFF APPEARANCES<br />
#45 SASHA GOODLETT<br />
Position: Center<br />
<strong>WNBA</strong> Years: R<br />
Height: 6-5<br />
Weight: 239<br />
Born: August 9, 1990 in Jackson,<br />
Miss.<br />
High School: Clinton (Jackson,<br />
Miss.)<br />
Indiana’s top draft pick in <strong>2012</strong> is expected to help bolster<br />
Fever rebounding fortunes. Goodlett is just the second Georgia<br />
Tech player ever chosen in the first round of the <strong>WNBA</strong> Draft,<br />
following Alex Montgomery’s No. 10 selection in 2011 by the New<br />
York Liberty. She played at Tech under MaChelle Joseph whose<br />
career began as a player and assistant coach at Purdue under Lin<br />
Dunn.<br />
COLLEGE<br />
Goodlett finished her career at Georgia Tech ranked among<br />
career leaders in points scored (10th, 1,364), rebounds (9th, 760)<br />
and blocked shots (5th, 127)…she set a Yellow Jacket record for<br />
most career games played with 133, starting 127 of those.<br />
2011-12: During her final campaign, Goodlett earned All-ACC<br />
Second Team and ACC All-Tournament First Team accolades as<br />
she helped the Jackets to 12 ACC wins and a 26-9 mark<br />
overall…the Yellow Jackets played in the ACC Championship<br />
Game for only the second time in school history and were ranked<br />
as high as 15th in the country…Goodlett finished 15th in the NCAA<br />
with a 53.2 percent shooting clip…she led the Jackets with 14.6<br />
points and 7.7 rebounds per game…she led Tech in scoring 16<br />
times as a senior, and 18 times on the boards…in all, she<br />
contributed 10 double-doubles with 26 games in double-figure<br />
scoring, including a season-high 26 points at Boston College, 1/15.<br />
2010-11: She played in 34 of 35 games and started 32<br />
contests...she was third on team with 9.9 ppg and third with 5.8<br />
rpg, scoring in double digits 17 times...she tied her season high<br />
with 18 points against Maryland and added nine boards against<br />
the Terps in an ACC Tournament win...she tied a career high with<br />
13 rebounds against Miami...also against Miami, she finished with<br />
a season-high 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting to go with seven<br />
rebounds against the Hurricanes.<br />
GOODLETT’S COLLEGE STATISTICS AT GEORGIA TECH<br />
College: Georgia Tech ‘12<br />
Drafted: By Indiana, first round,<br />
<strong>2012</strong> <strong>WNBA</strong> Draft (11th overall)<br />
2009-10: Goodlett started in 32 of her 33 games while<br />
recording averages of 9.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.<br />
2008-09: As a freshman, Goodlett played in every game and<br />
started 29 of Tech's 32 contests…she registered her first career<br />
double-double (16 pts, 13 reb) against Iowa in the first round of the<br />
NCAA Tournament (3/22)…she averaged 6.3 points and 3.7<br />
rebounds per game…she was named to the Dean's List in the<br />
spring.<br />
PERSONAL<br />
Sasha Samolia Goodlett was born on August 9, 1990 in<br />
Jackson, Miss….she is the daughter of Michael Washington and<br />
Sara Goodlett…she has an older sister, Tristina, and an older<br />
brother, Michael…she majored in history at Georgia Tech and<br />
enjoys playing air hockey…she was a four-year letterwinner and<br />
two-year captain in basketball at Clinton High School…she was<br />
named the 2007-08 team MVP…she was a member of the 2005-<br />
06 5A state championship team…Goodlett was named to the<br />
Dandy Dozen (Top 12 Players in Mississippi) by the Clarion<br />
Ledger... she was ranked No. 64 in the nation by All-Star Girls<br />
Report…she was a 2007 Mississippi High School All-Star Game<br />
participant and an honor roll student.<br />
YEAR G-GS MIN FGM-A PCT 3FGM-A PCT FTM-A PCT OR DR TR AVG PF-DQ AST TO BKS STL PTS AVG<br />
2008-09 32-29 682 82-194 .423 0-0 .000 38-60 .633 65 53 118 3.7 61-0 11 57 30 22 202 6.3<br />
2009-10 33-32 892 124-267 .464 0-0 .000 71-107 .664 82 94 176 5.3 58-1 37 85 23 29 319 9.7<br />
2010-11 34-32 913 138-291 .474 0-0 .000 61-94 .649 104 94 198 5.8 82-1 38 89 26 22 337 9.9<br />
2011-12 35-35 1035 197-381 .517 0-0 .000 112-164 .683 106 162 268 7.7 73-0 40 97 48 43 506 14.5<br />
CAREER 134-128 3522 541-1133 .477 0-0 .000 282-425 .664 357 403 760 5.7 274-2 126 328 127 116 1364 10.2<br />
Goodlett’s coach at Georgia Tech, MaChelle Joseph, was a player and assistant coach under Lin Dunn at Purdue.<br />
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