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League
  
WNBA

Pro career
  
1997–2006

Weight
  
79 kg

Listed weight
  
175 lb (79 kg)

Height
  
1.75 m

Listed height
  
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Role
  
Basketball Player

Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Bridget Pettis


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Born
  
January 1, 1971 (age 53) East Chicago, Indiana (
1971-01-01
)

WNBA draft
  
1997 / Round: 1 / Pick: 7th overall

Positions
  
Basketball positions, Coach

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Bridget Pettis (born January 1, 1971) is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a guard in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for eight seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Pettis played college basketball for the University of Florida, and professionally for the Phoenix Mercury and the Indiana Fever of the WNBA.

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Early years

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Pettis was born in East Chicago, Indiana. She attended East Chicago Central High School, and played high school basketball for the EC Central Cardinals.

College career

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Pettis attended Central Arizona College in Coolidge, Arizona, and played junior college basketball for the Central Arizona Vaqueras. She accepted an athletic scholarship to transfer to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team from 1991 to 1993. Memorably, she completed eight three-point shots against the Georgia Bulldogs on January 20, 1993—still the Gators' single-game record.

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She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in 1993.

Professional career

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The Phoenix Mercury selected Pettis in the first round (seventh pick overall) of the 1997 WNBA Draft. She played for the Mercury from 1997 to 2001, the Indiana Fever in 2002 and 2003, and the Mercury again in 2006. Her first two seasons with the Mercury were the most productive, when she started fifty-six of sixty games played, and averaged over fourteen point per game. In her eight-season WNBA career, she played in 228 games, started seventy-one of them, and scored 1,408 points.

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In 2013, Pettis and Frank and Eddie Johnson started a club team called Team 2j Thunder. Three months later, Pettis applied for an assistant coaching job for the LA Sparks.

On March 6, 2014 Pettis was named Assistant Coach for the Tulsa Shock.

References

Bridget Pettis Wikipedia


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