2012 Media Guide - WNBA.com

SEVEN CONSECUTIVE WNBA PLAYOFF APPEARANCES
#1 SHAVONTE ZELLOUS
Position: Guard
WNBA Years: 3
Height: 5-10
Weight: 155
Born: August 28, 1986 in Orlando,
Fla.
High School: Jones (Orlando,
Fla.)
Beginning her third year in Indiana, Zellous was acquired in a
May 27, 2010 trade with the Tulsa Shock…she is an athletic
shooting guard with an uncanny ability to get to the free throw
line…in her rookie season with Detroit in 2009, Zellous made 155
free throws, second in the WNBA to the Fever’s Tamika Catchings
(158).
PRO – WNBA
2011: Zellous saw action in 33 games, starting two and
averaging 5.5 points and 2.2 rebounds…she scored a season-high
21 points at Washington, 6/21…she had a career-tying high seven
rebounds vs. Atlanta, 9/11…she scored 13 points, had five assists,
and three rebounds vs. Los Angeles, 7/31.
2010: Zellous played four games with the Tulsa Shock before
being traded to Indiana…with the Fever, she appeared in 27
games without a start…she logged 15.5 minutes per game with
the Fever, averaging 5.9 points and 2.1 rebounds…her first game
with the Fever came against the Shock, ironically, in Tulsa just one
day after the trade occurred…in her next three games with the
Fever, she netted 10, 23 and 10 points…her season scoring high
was 23 against New York, 6/5, in a game that included 10 free
throws out of 12 attempts…she scored 16 points against Tulsa,
7/8…she posted season highs of six rebounds and six assists at
Connecticut, 8/15.
2009: A member of the WNBA's All-Rookie First Team, she
averaged 11.9 ppg for the Detroit Shock and was second in the
league with 155 free throws made, behind Tamika Catchings…she
started the season's first four games, averaging 7.5 ppg…she then
scored in double figures in 23 of the last 30 games and averaged
12.5 ppg in those outings, all off the bench…she scored a seasonhigh
25 points vs. Atlanta, 6/26, and in that game set a franchise
record with 17 free throws made...her 19 free throw attempts
against the Dream tied for second most in a single game in Shock
history…she scored 10+ points in 13 straight games from August 9
to September 9…she scored 20+ points four times, including 20
points in the season finale at Chicago, 9/12…she made at least 10
free throws four times…in her first game off the bench, she scored
13 points against the Fever, 6/21, including a pair of 3pointers…she
averaged 2.0 apg for the season, but handed out
nearly three-and-a-half assists a game over the season's final 10
games…she averaged 3.4 apg in that span with at least four
assists on five occasions…she had a season-best five assists
three times, all of which came in the season's last 10
contests…she was fifth on the team with 27 steals, which was tops
among Shock reserves and third-best among all WNBA rookies
behind Angel McCoughtry and Briann January.
College: Pittsburgh ‘09
Drafted: By Detroit, first round,
2009 WNBA Draft (11th overall)
Acquired: From Tulsa, 5/27/10, in
exchange for a 2011 secondround
draft pick
PLAYOFFS
2011: Zellous saw action in 5 of 6 Fever postseason games
and started Game 3 of the East Finals…she averaged 8.6 points
and 2.6 rebounds per game…she scored 13 points in 17 minutes
at New York, 9/17..
2010: Zellous averaged 4.0 points per game during a threegame
conference semifinal series against the New York Liberty.
2009: Zellous helped spark Detroit to the Eastern Conference
Finals with a playoff average of 15.6 points per game…her playoff
high of 23 points came in Game 1 of the East Finals in Detroit
where she hit 10-of-11 free throws.
PRO – OVERSEAS
2011-12: Zellous finished fifth in the Turkish League with 18.7
points per game while playing with Mersin. She averaged 5.4
rebounds and 2.2 assists, and contributed high scoring games of
34 and 31 points.
2010-11: Zellous began the winter playing with TTT-Riga in
Latvia, but after 10 games and elimination from EuroLeague
competition, she signed with Electra Ramat in Israel…she
averaged 15.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists with TTT-Riga;
and 12.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists with Eletra Ramat.
2009-10: Playing for Besiktas in Istanbul, Turkey, she
averaged 15.3 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals per
game in 21 Turkish League games…she tallied 20 or more points
four times with a season-best 26 points against Mersin, 4/22…she
recorded two double-doubles, including 19 points and a seasonhigh
11 rebounds vs. Ceyhan Bid, 12/13…she notched 14 points
and 10 rebounds vs. TED Kayseri, 1/31…she played in six
EuroCup games for Besiktas, averaging 17.0 points, 5.0 points
and 4.2 assists per game…she scored 20+ points twice, including
22 points vs. Chevakata, 12/3, and 21 points in the team's
EuroCup opener vs. Chevakata, 11/12.
COLLEGE
An All-Big East First Team honoree in each of her last three
seasons at Pittsburgh, she was named the Big East's Most
Improved Player in 2007…she was selected to the NCAA Spokane
Region All-Tournament Team in 2008…she averaged 22.6 points,
5.7 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.1 steals per game as a senior in
2008-09, ranking first on the team and sixth in the nation in
scoring…she scored her 2,000th career point against Notre Dame,
2/3/09, becoming just the third player in Pitt women’s history and
just the fifth Pitt player ever to reach that milestone…she was also
just the 13th player in Big East history to have scored 2,000 points.
2009 WNBA Free Throw Leaders: (1) Catchings, 158; (2) Zellous, 155; (3) Taurasi, 152.
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