Brittany Brewer
Personal information | |
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Born | Abilene, Texas | November 6, 1997
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Listed weight | 182 lb (83 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Wylie(Abilene, Texas) |
College | Texas Tech(2016–2020) |
WNBA draft | 2020:2nd round, 17th overall pick |
Selected by theAtlanta Dream | |
Playing career | 2020–present |
Position | Power forward |
Career history | |
2020 | Atlanta Dream |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Brittany Brewer(born November 6, 1997) is an American professional basketball player. She played in college for theTexas Tech Lady Raidersof theBig 12 Conference.Brewer is the 2020CoSIDAAcademic All-American of the Year.[1]She was also selected as a First-team Academic All-American in 2019.[2]
College career
[edit]Brewer started 17 games in each of her freshman and sophomore seasons with the Lady Raiders. In the 2018–19 season, she started all 31 games as a junior and added 3-point shootings to her repertoire; averaging 34.3% on 99 attempts while attempting none in her prior two years. In the 2019–20 season, Brewer once again started all 29 games as a senior and averaged a double-double of 16.6 ppg and 10.3 rpg.
During her senior year, she also tied the NCAA Division I women's single-game record forblocked shots,recording 16 as part of a triple-double in the Lady Raiders' 83–38 rout ofLouisiana–Monroeon December 22, 2019.[3]
Professional career
[edit]Brewer was selected with the fifth pick in the second round, 17th overall, of the2020 WNBA draftby theAtlanta Dream.
Career statistics
[edit]GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Reboundsper game |
APG | Assistsper game | SPG | Stealsper game | BPG | Blocksper game | PPG | Points per game |
TO | Turnoversper game | FG% | Field-goalpercentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goalpercentage | FT% | Free-throwpercentage |
Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
College
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2016–17 | Texas Tech | 31 | 17 | 22.3 | .452 | .000 | .604 | 5.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 5.8 |
2017–18 | Texas Tech | 30 | 17 | 20.2 | .490 | .000 | .531 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 9.5 |
2018–19 | Texas Tech | 31 | 31 | 31.0 | .528 | .343 | .692 | 9.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 16.6 |
2019–20* | Texas Tech | 29 | 29 | 31.5 | .509 | .243 | .675 | 10.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 16.6 |
Career | 121 | 94 | 26.2 | .495 | .146 | .625 | 7.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 12.1 |
* 2020 NCAA tournament cancelled due to coronavirus disease pandemic
Source: texastech.com[4]
WNBA
[edit]Regular season
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2020 | Atlanta | 5 | 0 | 6.6 | .667 | – | – | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.8 |
Source: basketball-reference.com[5]
Personal life
[edit]Brittany Brewer is the daughter of Jacob and Melanie Brewer. She has four siblings: Brianna, Brooklyn, Joy and Josh. Brewer majored in Community, Family and Addiction Sciences at Texas Tech.
References
[edit]- ^"2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Teams Announced"(Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 9, 2020.RetrievedApril 17,2020.
- ^"2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Team Announced"(Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 11, 2019.RetrievedApril 17,2020.
- ^Silva Jr., Carlos (December 22, 2019)."Brewer nets first triple-double in 22 years as Lady Raiders roll to 10th straight win before holiday break".Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.RetrievedMarch 24,2020.
- ^"Brittany Brewer - Women's Basketball".Texas Tech Red Raiders.RetrievedApril 17,2020.
- ^"Brittany Brewer WNBA stats".Basketball Reference.Retrieved14 September2020.
- 1997 births
- Living people
- American women's basketball players
- Atlanta Dream draft picks
- Atlanta Dream players
- Basketball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Basketball players from Texas
- Power forwards
- Sportspeople from Abilene, Texas
- Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball players
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in basketball