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2012 INDIANA FEVER MEDIA GUIDE
#5 RONEEKA HODGES
Position: Guard
WNBA Years: 7
Height: 5-11
Weight: 165
Born: July 19, 1982 in New
Orleans, La.
High School: O.P. Walker (New
Orleans, La.)
An athletic, slashing, 3-point shooting perimeter player,
Hodges joins her sixth WNBA franchise this season. Hodges has
logged regular season time with San Antonio, Minnesota and
Houston, but also has had brief history with Atlanta and Seattle.
Hodges actually has been drafted on three occasions – WNBA
Draft in 2005; the Atlanta Expansion Draft in 2008; and the
Houston Dispersal Draft in 2008. She is the twin sister of Doneeka
(Hodges) Lewis who played with the Fever following the Olympic
Break in 2008.
PRO-WNBA
2011: Hodges played in 28 regular-season games with five
starts for San Antonio…she averaged 3.9 points per game with 1.3
rebounds and 0.5 assists…she led the WNBA in 3-point field goals
per 40 minutes (4.7) …she ranked second on the team in 3-point
field goal percentage (.400, 32-80)…Hodges had a pair of doubledigit
scoring performances, leading the team in scoring twice…her
best game was a flawless performance, going 6-for-6 from the
field, 5-for-5 from behind the arc and 2-for-2 from the charity stripe
at Tulsa, 6/10.
2010: Acquired by the Silver Stars in a trade with Minnesota,
Hodges was one of three San Antonio players to play in all 34
games, making 19 starts…she averaged 7.7 points per game
while adding 108 rebounds, 46 assists, 15 steals and 10 blocked
shots…she led the team in scoring five times, rebounding three
times and assists once…she had a season-best two steals against
Tulsa, 6/11, and grabbed a season-best seven rebounds at Los
Angeles, 7/1…she had a career-high tying nine made field goals
against Los Angeles, 7/18…she tied a career-standard with six
assists against Phoenix, 8/22.
2009: Acquired by the Lynx in a dispersal draft of Houston
Comets players, Hodges started the final 27 games of the 2008
season following a season-ending knee injury to Seimone
Augustus…she ranked ninth in the WNBA in 3-point percentage
(39.8) and fifth in 3-pointers made…she tallied 68 3-pointers on
the season, representing what was then the fourth-best singleseason
total in Minnesota history and the most by any Lynx player
aside from Katie Smith…she shot 41.7 percent from the floor and
90.9 percent (30-for-33) from the free throw line…she added 3.0
rebounds and 1.9 assists per game while playing 27.3 minutes per
contest …a missed free throw on July 19 at Seattle halted a run of
32 consecutive made free throws that dated to May 2007…she
posted career highs in points (25) and assists (6) at Chicago, 8/15,
while matching her season high with eight rebounds…she scored
20-plus on four occasions, including a 20-point night at Phoenix,
7/22, and 22 versus Phoenix, 7/27.
2008: After playing her first three seasons in Houston, Hodges
was selected by Atlanta in the 2008 Expansion Draft and traded on
the same day to Seattle in exchange for Iziane Castro Marques.
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College: Florida State ‘05
Drafted: By Houston, second
round, 2005 WNBA Draft (15th
overall)
Acquired: From San Antonio,
3/1/12, in exchange for Tangela
Smith
She was waived in the Storm’s training camp and re-signed by
Houston in July…she averaged 7.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 3.1
assists per game before the Olympic Break for Houston, scoring a
season-best 18 points against Detroit, 7/24.
2007: She played in 29 games for the Houston Comets,
starting four…she averaged 3.5 points, 1.0 rebounds, and 0.9
assists per game…she notched a career-high tying four assists
against Los Angeles, 6/20…she scored a season-high 17 points
against Phoenix, 6/30.
2006: Playing in 33 games and starting eight, she averaged
7.5 points, 2.0 rebounds, and 1.0 assists per game…she recorded
a career-high 21 points on a career-best seven made field goals in
her first career start at Washington, 6/6…she played a career-high
48 minutes against Phoenix, 8/10.
2005: Played in 26 games with the Comets, averaging 1.3
points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.3 assists per game…she made her
professional debut at San Antonio on May 21, dishing out one
assist in four minutes of action.
PLAYOFFS
2011: Hodges played in Game 3 of the Western Conference
Semifinals against Minnesota, recording three points and a pair of
assists in five minutes of play.
2010: She started both Western Conference Semifinal games
against Phoenix, averaging 10.5 points per game with 1.5
rebounds and 1.5 assists.
2006: With Houston, Hodges played in both Western
Conference Semifinal games against Sacramento…she averaged
7.0 points and 1.5 rebounds per game.
2005: She played in two of Houston’s four playoff games for a
total of two minutes.
PRO-OVERSEAS
2011-12: Hodges signed with Turkey's Istanbul Univertesi
where she averaged 15.5 points in 22 games.
2010-11: She played for Israel's Raanana Hertzeliya where
she averaged 17.0 points per game with 6.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists
and 1.3 steals…she moved to France's Tarbes Gespe Bigorre in
February and played in 11 games, averaging 13.3 points per game
with 3.5 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.2 steals.
2009-10: She spent the first part of the season in Tarsus,
Turkey, before joining Lotos Gydnia in Poland…she helped Lotos
go 12-5 during her time with the team, including winning the PLKK
Championship…she tallied 19 points, five rebounds, 10 assists,
three steals and one block in the PLKK Finals…she averaged 9.9
points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 24.5 minutes per game in 29
games played during her time in Turkey and Poland.
2008-09: She spent the winter playing with two different teams
in Spain…she played with Ros Casares before ending the season
Hodges has been drafted, waived, re-signed or traded on eight occasions since 2005.