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Noelle Quinn
Quinn coaching the Seattle Storm, June 2023
Seattle Storm
PositionHead coach
LeagueW NBA
Personal information
Born(1985-01-03)January 3, 1985(age 39)
Los Angeles, California,U.S.
Listed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight178 lb (81 kg)
Career information
High schoolBishop Montgomery
(Torrance, California)
CollegeUCLA(2003–2007)
W NBA draft2007:1st round, 4th overall pick
Selected by theMinnesota Lynx
Playing career2007–2018
PositionPoint guard/shooting guard
Number45
Coaching career2019–present
Career history
As player:
2007–2008Minnesota Lynx
2009–2011Los Angeles Sparks
2012Washington Mystics
2013–2014Seattle Storm
2015–2016Phoenix Mercury
2016–2018Seattle Storm
As coach:
2019Seattle Storm (assistant)
2020–2021Seattle Storm (associate HC)
2021–presentSeattle Storm
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As associate head coach:

As head coach

Statsat W NBA
Statsat Basketball-Reference

Noelle Quinn(born January 3, 1985) is an Americanbasketballcoach and former player who is currently the head coach for theSeattle Stormof theWomen's National Basketball Association(W NBA ).[1]Quinn played in the W NBA forMinnesota Lynx,Los Angeles Sparks,Washington Mystics,Phoenix Mercury,and the Storm. She won theW NBA Championshipwith the Storm in 2018. She also played forBotaş SKin theTurkish Women's Basketball League.[2]

High school

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Born inLos Angeles, California,Quinn played forBishop Montgomery High SchoolinTorrance, California,where she was named aWBCAAll-American. She participated in the 2003WBCA High School All-America Gamewhere she scored eleven points.[3]She led the Lady Knights to four California state championships, three regional championships, and three division championships.[4]

College career

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Quinn attendedUCLAand graduated in 2007. She was the first Bruin — men's or women's player — to total 1,700 points, 700 rebounds, and 400 assists in her collegiate career.[5]Quinn was twice named honorable mention All-American, earned first-team All-Pac-10 player honors three times, and was twice named a Pac-10 All-Tournament honoree.[5]She was named Pac-10 Player of the Week eight times (a conference record).[5]In 2006, she led the team to its first Pac-10 Tournament title and recorded 22 points in the championship game.[5]

Quinn was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame in 2020.[5]

College statistics

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Source[6]

Legend
GP Games played GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
FG% Field goalpercentage 3P% 3-point field goalpercentage FT% Free throwpercentage
RPG Reboundsper game APG Assistsper game SPG Stealsper game
BPG Blocksper game PPG Points per game Bold Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2003–04 UCLA 27 430 42.3 26.1 71.6 7.7 3.1 2.2 0.4 15.9
2004–05 UCLA 16 270 41.7 30.0 75.0 7.1 3.6 3.3 0.5 16.9
2005–06 UCLA 32 580 47.4 37.3 74.4 8.2 3.8 1.5 0.8 18.1
2006–07 UCLA 32 549 40.8 38.1 80.5 6.6 5.8 1.2 0.3 17.2
Career UCLA 107 1829 43.2 33.8 75.6 7.4 4.2 1.8 0.5 17.1

Professional career

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Quinn was drafted by theMinnesota Lynxin the first round of the2007 W NBA draft.[7]As a rookie she got off to a slow start before stepping into the point guard role whenLindsey Hardingwas injured in July, 2007. Quinn finished strong, setting a franchise record with 14 assists on August 19, the season finale. She finished the season averaging 2.8 points and 4.4 assists per game. Her 148 assists for the 2007 season, tied a club record that was held byTeresa Edwards.

In the 2009-10 W NBA off-season, Quinn played inIsraelforElitzur Ramla.

During a 12-year W NBA career, Quinn played for the Minnesota Lynx,Los Angeles Sparks,Washington Mystics,Phoenix Mercury,andSeattle Storm.She was a 6'0 "combo guard who averaged 4.8 points per game and 2.3 assists per game for her career.[7]With the Storm, she won the2018 W NBA Championship.[8]

W NBA career statistics

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Legend
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
† Denotes seasons in which Quinn won aW NBA championship

Regular season

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2007 Minnesota 34 19 19.7 .298 .184 .625 2.6 4.4 0.9 0.4 2.0 2.8
2008 Minnesota 32 25 16.7 .398 .313 .667 2.2 2.5 0.7 0.1 1.4 3.6
2009 Los Angeles 34 9 27.3 .471 .312 .811 3.6 3.5 1.2 0.3 1.5 8.4
2010 Los Angeles 34 34 32.5 .443 .402 .776 4.0 2.8 1.0 0.3 1.4 10.2
2011 Los Angeles 33 23 20.6 .390 .397 .818 1.8 2.0 0.6 0.1 0.7 5.1
2012 Washington 30 18 22.2 .396 .403 .731 2.9 1.8 0.7 0.2 1.0 6.5
2013 Seattle 34 15 25.6 .354 .232 .842 4.9 1.6 0.8 0.2 1.2 5.4
2014 Seattle 32 5 15.1 .380 .258 .880 2.5 1.3 0.5 0.1 0.6 3.8
2015 Phoenix 34 1 18.6 .422 .324 .792 2.6 1.9 0.4 0.3 0.9 4.1
2016 Phoenix 13 0 9.9 .241 .100 .857 0.9 1.4 0.4 0.2 0.8 1.6
2016 Seattle 20 0 13.9 .288 .083 1.000 1.8 1.6 0.5 0.1 1.0 1.8
2017 Seattle 32 4 15.8 .403 .385 .952 1.6 2.8 0.4 0.2 0.9 2.7
2018† Seattle 20 1 9.1 .302 .235 .000 0.9 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.5 1.5
Career 12 years, 5 teams 382 154 20.1 .396 .322 .797 2.6 2.3 0.7 0.2 1.1 4.8

Playoffs

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2009 Los Angeles 6 4 26.3 .263 .100 1.000 3.2 3.8 1.2 0.5 3.2 4.8
2010 Los Angeles 2 2 34.0 .368 .500 1.000 4.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 1.5 9.5
2013 Seattle 2 0 26.5 .429 .333 .000 3.5 1.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 3.5
2015 Phoenix 4 0 20.3 .778 1.000 .000 2.8 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.8 4.3
2016 Seattle 1 0 11.0 .333 .000 .000 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0
2017 Seattle 1 0 12.0 1.000 .000 .000 3.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0
2018† Seattle 2 0 4.0 .000 .000 .000 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Career 7 years, 3 teams 18 6 21.7 .372 .348 1.000 2.9 1.8 0.7 0.2 1.5 4.2

International career

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Quinn became a naturalized Bulgarian citizen in 2007 and played with theBulgaria women's national basketball team.[9]

Coaching career

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Beginning in 2016, Quinn coached the girls basketball team at her high school alma mater, Bishop Montgomery High School, for four seasons. In her first season, the Lady Knights won a California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section championship.[4]

In February 2019, after retiring from the W NBA, Quinn was hired as an assistant coach by her last team, the Seattle Storm.[10]

For the 2020 season, Storm head coachDan Hugheswas forced to sit out the season for medical reasons. Gary Kloppenburg became head coach for the season, and Quinn was promoted to associate head coach, where she concentrated on the offense, while Kloppenburg focused on the defense.[11]Seattle won the 2020 W NBA championship.

On May 30, 2021, Quinn was named Storm head coach upon Hughes' retirement from the W NBA.[12]

Coaching record

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W NBA

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Legend
Regular season G Games coached W Games won L Games lost W–L % Win–loss %
Playoffs PG Playoff games PW Playoff wins PL Playoff losses PW–L % Playoff win–loss %
Team Year G W L W–L% Finish PG PW PL PW–L% Result
SEA 2021 26 16 10 .615 3rd in West 1 0 1 .000 Lost inSecond round
SEA 2022 36 22 14 .611 2nd in West 6 3 3 .500 Lost inConf. Semi-Finals
SEA 2023 40 11 29 .275 5th in West – – – – Missed Playoffs
SEA 2024 40 25 15 .625 3rd in West 2 0 2 .000 Lost inFirst Round
Career 142 74 68 .521 9 3 6 .333

Personal

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On September 23, 2009, Quinn returned to her college basketball court atPauley Pavilionto play game one of theW NBAConference finalsbetweenPhoenix Mercuryand herLos Angeles Sparks,which the Sparks lost 94–103.[13]

Notes

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  1. ^"Dan Hughes To Miss 2020 Storm Season In Florida".Seattle Storm. 29 June 2020.Retrieved13 February2021.
  2. ^"Noelle Quinn Botaş'ta(Turkish)".Haberler.
  3. ^"WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores".Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived fromthe originalon July 15, 2014.Retrieved29 Jun2014.
  4. ^abDavid Yapkowitz."Seattle Storm's Noelle Quinn talks to High Post Hoops about coaching transition".HighPostHoops.
  5. ^abcde"Hall of Fame: Noelle Quinn".UCLA.Retrieved12 June2024.
  6. ^"Women's Basketball Player stats".NCAA.Retrieved25 Sep2015.
  7. ^ab"Noelle Quinn".wnba.
  8. ^"Noelle Quinn, a legend at Bishop Montgomery and W NBA".Los Angeles Times. December 16, 2018.Retrieved12 June2024.
  9. ^Allen, Percy (May 31, 2021)."Noelle Quinn knows the history, and the honor, to be a Black female head coach taking over the Storm".The Seattle Times.Retrieved1 June2021.
  10. ^Percy Allen."Veteran Storm guard Noelle Quinn calls it quits and joins Seattle's coaching staff".SeattleTimes.
  11. ^Percy Allen."As the Storm dominates the W NBA, coach Dan Hughes can only watch from afar".SeattleTimes.
  12. ^"Dan Hughes announces retirement from the W NBA".
  13. ^Bruin Alumnae Return To Pauley Pavilion For LA Sparks Playoff Game WednesdayArchived2011-07-25 at theWayback Machine,UCLABruins,September 22, 2009
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