Position Guard Listed weight 160 lb (73 kg) Height 1.73 m League WNBA Weight 73 kg | Nationality American Name Matee Ajavon Career start 2008 Listed height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Role Basketball player | |
Born May 7, 1986 (age 38) ( 1986-05-07 ) Similar People Crystal Langhorne, Tiffany Hayes, Angel McCoughtry, Essence Carson, Kia Vaughn Profiles | ||
Matee Ajavon 2017 Highlights
Matee Ajavon (born May 7, 1986) is a Liberian American basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). A 5'8" guard, Ajavon was chosen by the Houston Comets as the fifth overall draft pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft.
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- Matee Ajavon 2017 Highlights
- Matee ajavon my african swag parody
- Early life
- High school
- College
- College statistics
- USA Basketball
- Professional
- References
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Early life
As a child, Ajavon immigrated to the United States with her family from Monrovia, Liberia.
High school
Ajavon graduated from Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey. She led the Shabazz girls' basketball team to victory in the State of New Jersey's "Tournament of Champions" in both 2003 and 2004, the first time a school had repeated as champion. Ajavon was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored nine points.
College
Ajavon graduated from Rutgers University in 2008, having majored in Africana Studies. She was a key member of the 2006–2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team that reached the NCAA Championship game.
College statistics
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USA Basketball
Ajavon played for the USA team in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The team won all five games, earning the Gold Medal for the event.
Professional
Ajavon played primarily off the bench during her rookie WNBA season, but averaged 8.0 points per game. When the Houston Comets folded in 2008, Ajavon was selected second in the dispersal draft by the Washington Mystics.
During the 2008–2010 WNBA offseason, Ajavon played in the EuroLeague Women for Fenerbahçe Istanbul.
In her first season with Washington, Ajavon put up remarkably similar numbers to her first WNBA campaign. Again mainly playing as a reserve, she scored 8.0 points per game. Ajavon helped the Mystics reach the playoffs, where she played well, scoring 19 points in just 34 total minutes, but Washington suffered a two-game sweep at the hands of the Indiana Fever.