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Shoni Schimmel
Personal information
Born(1992-05-04)May 4, 1992(age 32)
Pendleton, Oregon,U.S.
Listed height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Listed weight161 lb (73 kg)
Career information
High school
CollegeLouisville(2010–2014)
W NBA draft2014:1st round, 8th overall pick
Selected by theAtlanta Dream
Playing career2014–2018
PositionPoint guard/shooting guard
Number23, 5
Career history
2014–2015Atlanta Dream
2016New York Liberty
2018Las Vegas Aces
Career highlights and awards
Statsat W NBA
Medals
Women'sBasketball
World University Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kazan, Russia Team Competition

Shoni Schimmel(born May 4, 1992) is an American former professionalbasketballplayer. She is a formerAll-Americancollege player at theUniversity of Louisvilleand was selected with the eighth overall pick in the first round of the2014 draftby theAtlanta Dream.

Early life and high school

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Schimmel, a 5'9 "shooting guard,first received attention as a high school player in Oregon. Raised on theConfederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian ReservationinMission, Oregon,she was the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Jonathan Hock calledOff the Rez,which chronicled her journey to earn an NCAA scholarship with her basketball ability. She transferred fromHermiston High Schoolin eastern Oregon to the largerFranklin High SchoolinPortland, Oregon,to increase her chances of being recruited to aDivision Ischool.[1]After her senior year at Franklin, Schimmel was named a first team All-American byParademagazine.[2]

Schimmel was selected to the 2010Women's Basketball Coaches AssociationHigh School Coaches' All-America Team. The top twenty high school players in the country are named as WBCA All-Americans, and eligible to play in the all-star game. She participated in the 2010 WBCA High School All-America Game, scoring six points.[3][4]

College career

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Schimmel choseLouisvillefor college and became a four-year starter for the Cardinals. As a junior in2012–13,Schimmel led the team to the championship game of the2013 Tournament.In her senior season, Schimmel averaged 17.1 points per game to lead the team in scoring and was named an All-American by theUSBWAandAssociated Press.[5][6]

For her career, she finished second on the Louisville career scoring list, finishing with 2,174 points.[7]

College statistics

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Source[8]

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
2010–11 Louisville 35 528 40.0 36.5 69.8 3.6 4.9 2.1 0.1 15.1
2011–12 Louisville 31 444 35.3 29.9 72.5 4.5 4.7 2.4 0.5 14.3
2012–13 Louisville 38 539 39.1 32.9 79.2 3.1 3.6 1.7 0.3 14.2
2013–14 Louisville 38 663 39.7 37.6 81.7 4.5 3.8 1.3 0.2 17.4
Career Louisville 142 2174 38.7 34.4 76.9 3.9 4.2 1.8 0.3 15.3

USA Basketball

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Schimmel was selected to be a member of the team representing the US at the 2013 World University Games held inKazan, Russia.The team, coached bySherri Coale,won the opening four games easily, scoring in triple digits in each game, and winning by 30 or more points in each case. After winning the quarterfinal game against Sweden, they faced Australia in the semifinal. The USA team opened up as much as a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter of the game but the Australian team fought back and took a one-point lead in the final minute. Crystal Bradford scored a basket with 14 seconds left in the game to secure a 79–78 victory. The gold medal opponent was Russia, but the USA team never trailed, and won 90–71 to win the gold medal and the World University games Championship. Schimmel averaged 4.6 points per game.[9]

Professional career

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On April 14, 2014, Schimmel was selected in the first round of the2014 W NBA draft(eighth pick overall) by theAtlanta Dream.Despite coming off the bench, Schimmel had an impressive rookie season, averaging 8.3 ppg and was voted a W NBA All-Star starter, become just the third reserve in league history to achieve that.[10]In her first career game, Schimmel scored 7 points to go with a franchise-record 11 assists against theSan Antonio Stars.[10]In a regular season game win against thePhoenix Mercury,Schimmel scored a career-high 24 points, where she scored 20 of them in the second quarter, becoming one of six players in W NBA history to score 20 or more points in a quarter.[10]She also earned recognition as the2014 W NBA All-Star GameMost Valuable Player on July 19, 2014, inPhoenix, Arizona,as Schimmel out battledSkylar Digginsby scoring a then W NBA All-Star Game record, 29 points (which would be broken byMaya Moorethe following year).[7]In 2014, herjerseywas the league's best seller.[11]Some of the other W NBA franchises have held events honoring Native Americans when the Dream is the visiting team.[11]With Schimmel's productivity on the court along with a supporting cast ofSancho Lyttle,all-star centerÉrika de Souzaand superstar small forwardAngel McCoughtry,the Atlanta Dream were the number one seed in the Eastern Conference, but were upset in the first round of the playoffs, losing 2–1 to the fourth-seededChicago Sky.

In the 2015 season, Schimmel averaged 7.6 ppg despite starting in more games than she did in her rookie season. However, she was voted once again as a W NBA all-star starter, but the Dream never made it to the playoffs. Schimmel led the team in assists throughout the whole season.

Right before the 2016 season, Schimmel was traded to theNew York Libertyin exchange for a 2017 second round draft pick.[12]Despite being a two-time all-star, Schimmel would have a significantly reduced role on the team while averaging career lows in minutes per game (4.5 mpg) and points per game (2.1 ppg). She was also out of shape coming into training camp which ultimately led to the amount of playing time she would get.[13][14]Midway through the season, Schimmel suffered aconcussionthat would cause her to miss the rest of the season, including the playoffs.

In May 2017, it was announced that Schimmel would be sitting out the2017 W NBA seasondue to personal issues.[15]

In April 2018, Schimmel made her return to the Liberty in training camp but would be waived a month later before the start of the2018 W NBA season.[16][17]

On May 15, 2018, Schimmel signed with theLas Vegas Aces.[18]On May 23, 2018, Schimmel was waived by the Aces.[19]

Personal life

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Schimmel has a younger sister, Jude, who was also a teammate of hers at Louisville.[20]Her youngest sister Milan currently plays basketball for theUniversity of Cincinnati.[21]She has five brothers: Shae, Mick, Saint, Job and Sun. Her parents are Ceci and Rick Schimmel. On June 15, 2021, she was arrested for felony assault and criminal mischief.[22]

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

Regular season

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2014 Atlanta 34 2 21.0 .374 .342 .840 2.7 5.7 0.7 0.0 2.4 8.3
2015 Atlanta 32 16 19.8 .378 .383 .857 2.5 3.2 0.7 0.1 2.3 7.6
2016 New York 17 0 4.5 .550 .563 .800 0.5 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.4 2.1
2018 Las Vegas 2 0 6.4 .000 .000 .000 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0
Career 4 years, 3 teams 85 18 17.0 .379 .366 .845 1.9 2.8 0.6 0.1 2.0 6.6

Postseason

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2014 Atlanta 3 3 19.7 .368 .375 .840 5.7 3.6 1.0 0.0 2.3 6.3
Career 1 year, 1 team 3 3 19.7 .368 .375 .840 5.7 3.6 1.0 0.0 2.3 6.3

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Mother, Daughter Prove Themselves 'Off The Rez'".NPR.org.May 14, 2011.RetrievedApril 17,2014.
  2. ^"Franklin's Shoni Schimmel makes Parade All-American first team".OregonLive.March 22, 2010.RetrievedApril 17,2014.
  3. ^"Past WBCA HS Coaches' All-America Teams".Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived fromthe originalon 15 July 2014.Retrieved1 July2014.
  4. ^"WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores".Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived fromthe originalon 15 July 2014.Retrieved29 June2014.
  5. ^Linter, Jonathan (April 1, 2014)."Shoni Schimmel named second team AP All-American".The Courier-Journal.RetrievedApril 17,2014.
  6. ^Linter, Jonathan (March 31, 2014)."Shoni Schimmel makes USBWA's All-America team".The Courier-Journal.RetrievedApril 17,2014.
  7. ^ab"Shoni Schimmel Selected Eighth in the 2014 W NBA Draft".Louisville Cardinals.April 14, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon April 18, 2014.RetrievedApril 17,2014.
  8. ^"NCAA® Career Statistics".web1.ncaa.org.Retrieved2016-05-21.
  9. ^"Twenty-Seventh World University Games -- 2013".USA Basketball. Archived fromthe originalon 7 September 2015.Retrieved13 October2015.
  10. ^abc"Shoni Schimmel closing out the regular season the way she started; Breaking records | NDNSPORTS".ndnsports.15 August 2014.Retrieved2017-09-15.
  11. ^ab"Franklin's Shoni Schimmel brings 'Rez Ball' back to NW".kgw.KGW.August 7, 2014.Retrieved2015-09-24.
  12. ^"Liberty acquire All-Star Schimmel from Dream".ESPN.Retrieved2017-09-15.
  13. ^Roberson, Doug."Dream's Cooper disappointed in Schimmel".The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Retrieved2017-09-15.
  14. ^"Shoni Schimmel not much of a factor for New York Liberty | |".uoflcardgame.19 July 2016.Retrieved2017-09-15.
  15. ^"Liberty's Schimmel sitting out 2017 season".ESPN.Retrieved2017-09-15.
  16. ^Tribune, Portland (14 May 2018)."Schimmel, Hamblin waived on eve of W NBA season".portlandtribune.
  17. ^"After year away, Schimmel back with Liberty".ESPN.April 30, 2018.
  18. ^"Las Vegas Signs Two-Time W NBA All-Star Guard Shoni Schimmel".Las Vegas Aces.
  19. ^"Transactions - W NBA".W NBA - Official Site of the W NBA.
  20. ^"Two Sisters Bring Native American Pride To Women's NCAA".NPR.April 8, 2013.RetrievedSeptember 5,2014.
  21. ^"Milan Schimmel".UC Women's Basketball.Retrieved11 March2021.
  22. ^"Former W NBA, Louisville guard Schimmel arrested in Oregon".KCBY.Associated Press. 15 June 2021.
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