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SEVEN CONSECUTIVE <strong>WNBA</strong> PLAYOFF APPEARANCES<br />
#32 JEANETTE POHLEN<br />
Position: Guard<br />
<strong>WNBA</strong> Years: 1<br />
Height: 6-0<br />
Weight: 171<br />
Born: May 2, 1989 in Downey,<br />
Calif.<br />
High School: Brea Olinda (Brea,<br />
California)<br />
“The sky’s the limit,” said Lin Dunn about 2011 top draft pick<br />
Jeanette Pohlen…all Pohlen did as a rookie was lead the <strong>WNBA</strong><br />
in 3-point shooting percentage while appearing in all 34<br />
games…the former Associated Press first-team All-American and<br />
the Pac-10 Player of the Year is set to begin her second pro<br />
season with Indiana…she guided Stanford to the 2011 NCAA Final<br />
Four where it lost in the national semifinal game to eventual<br />
champion Texas A&M on what would be<strong>com</strong>e her home floor at<br />
Bankers Life Fieldhouse…Pohlen and Stanford reached the Final<br />
Four in four consecutive seasons...a pair of her fans while at<br />
Stanford were student-athlete buddies Andrew Luck and Coby<br />
Fleenor, each of whom was drafted in May by the Indianapolis<br />
Colts.<br />
PRO – <strong>WNBA</strong><br />
2011: One of three Fever players to appear in all 34 games,<br />
starting two…Pohlen averaged 3.9 points and 1.4 rebounds in 16<br />
minutes per game…she scored a career-high 17 points including<br />
5-of-5 shooting from the 3-point line at Phoenix, 6/19…besides<br />
leading the <strong>WNBA</strong> in 3-point shooting percentage, she broke<br />
rookie franchise records of field goal percentage (.471), 3-point<br />
field goal percentage (.468), and 3-point field goal percentage in a<br />
game (1.000)…she tied a franchise record of playing in 34 games<br />
as a rookie.<br />
PLAYOFFS<br />
2011: Pohlen saw action in five of the six Fever postseason<br />
games…in 36 total minutes, she scored 10 points…she scored a<br />
playoff career-high eight points at New York, 9/17, in the Eastern<br />
Conference Semifinals<br />
PRO – OVERSEAS<br />
2011-12: Pohlen averaged 10.1 points through 13 games with<br />
Tarsus in the Turkish League.<br />
College: Stanford ‘11<br />
Drafted: By Indiana, first round,<br />
2011 <strong>WNBA</strong> Draft (9th overall)<br />
COLLEGE<br />
2010-11: Named the Pac-10 Player of the Year, she averaged<br />
career highs of 14.5 ppg and 4.75 apg while shooting 41.7 percent<br />
from 3-pt range…she broke Stanford’s single-season record for 3pt<br />
FG made with 96 and became the 32nd player in Stanford<br />
history to score 1,000 career points against Fresno State,<br />
12/21...she finished her career with 1,453 points, 16th on<br />
Stanford’s career list…she was named to the Associated Press<br />
All-America First Team and was also named to the John R.<br />
Wooden and USBWA All-America Teams...she was named Pac-<br />
10 Player of the Week on January 3...she passed out a careerhigh<br />
12 assists to go with 21 points against USC…she scored 20<br />
or more points on five occasions, including a career-best 31 points<br />
on 8-of-15 FG with five 3-pointers and 10-of-10 FTs vs.<br />
Connecticut, 12/30…in her best game of the 2011 NCAA<br />
tournament, she scored 17 points with five assists in the West<br />
Regional final vs. Gonzaga, 3/28.<br />
2009-10: A starter in 36 of the 37 games she played as a<br />
junior, she averaged 9.3 points and 4.64 assists per game and<br />
was named to the All-Pac-10 First Team...she had a streak of 92<br />
straight games played and 53 straight starts snapped when she<br />
missed a game against Washington, 1/16, due to a sprained right<br />
ankle...she posted a double-double with 15 points and a careerhigh-tying<br />
10 assists at Old Dominion...she scored a season-best<br />
26 points vs. Oregon, 2/16…she scored a game-winning layup as<br />
time expired in a Sacramento Regional Final win against<br />
Xavier…she scored 11 points in the NCAA Championship game<br />
vs. Connecticut.<br />
2008-09: Named to All-Pac-10 Second Team...she earned a<br />
spot on the All-West Regional team during the NCAA<br />
Tournament...named the Pac-10 Player of the Week on March 9,<br />
she was one of three Stanford players to start all 38 games…she<br />
averaged 10.7 points, 3.84 assists and led the team by playing<br />
31.9 minutes a game...she scored in double figures 23 times in 38<br />
appearances and scored a season-high 21 points in a win over<br />
Arizona, 3/5.<br />
2007-08: Named Pac-10 All-Freshman honorable mention, she<br />
saw action in all 39 games during the season and averaged 4.6<br />
points with 2.9 rebounds per game while shooting 43.0 percent<br />
from the field…she opened her college career by scoring 15 points<br />
in a win over Yale, 11/9.<br />
Moore Boasting played the <strong>WNBA</strong>’s a vital role top for 3FG% the Fever as a in rookie, 2009. Pohlen Key to broke her efforts Stanford’s was a single-season 9.1 scoring average record during for 3FGs eight just midseason months earlier.<br />
starts.<br />
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