Famous Basketball Player (Female) Chamique Holdsclaw Chronology | 1977 | Born August 9 in Flushing, New York | | 1999 | Goes to Washington Mystics as a forward, number one draft pick in the inaugural WNBA draft, and only college player taken in the first round; achieves season average of 16.9 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game after starting 31 of 32 games; ranks sixth in scoring, third in rebounding; named as Special Sports Correspondent for Nickelodeon Games and Sports (GAS) cable network on May 11; graduates with a degree in political science | | 2000 | Ranks seventh in average scoring in WNBA at 17.5 and seventh in rebounds per game at 7.5 and third in minutes per game with 35.3 | | 2001 | Publishes a book during the off-season, Chamique: On Family, Focus and Basketball; releases her own shoe: BBMiqueShox | Awards And Accomplishments | 1995 | Olympic Festival; Naismith award as best female high school player, Atlanta's Tip-Off Club; named to Street & Smith All-American; three-time USA Today All-American; named Player of the Year by New York City, Rawlings/Women's Basketball Coaches Association, and Touchdown Club (Columbus, Ohio); Southeastern Conference Player of the Week; won Kodak All-American Honors | | 1997 | World Qualifying Tournament; USA Basketball Player of the Year Award; Honda-Broderick Cup from the National College Athletic Association | | 1997-98 | Named most valuable player of the National College Athletic Association playoffs | | 1997-99 | Naismith finalist; won James E. Sullivan award (first female recipient); named AP Women's Basketball Player of the Year | | 1998 | Won Gold medal at the World Championships; honored as one of 12 female athletes selected as inspirational role models by Women's Sports and Fitness; Broderick Awards for Basketball Player of the Year and for Athlete of the Year | | 1998-99 | Named female college player of the year; ESPY award for Women's Basketball Player of the Year | | 1999 | Named Women's National Basketball Association Rookie of the Year ($5,000); Named to Kodak 25th Anniversary Team, Women's Basketball Journal, Sports Illustrated, and Sporting News; National Women's Player of the Year; ESPY award for Female Athlete of the Year; starter in the inaugural Women's National Basketball Association All-Star game | | 1999-2000 | Selected to the USA Basketball team | | 2000 | Selected as one of the Naismith College Basketball Players of the 20th Century on March 21; won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney; league All-Star game starter | | Recipient of Conde Naste's Woman of the Year and USA Today 's "Shining Star in Basketball. | | University of Tennessee male/female all-time leading scorer with 3,025 points, and leading rebounder (1,295). | | One of only five NCAA females to achieve 3,000 points. | | College jersey, number 23, was retired by University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers (only the fourth jersey ever retired). | | Led Lady Volunteers to three Southeastern Conference titles. | | Twice-named most valuable player of the Southeastern Conference play-offs. | | Has a street named after her in Tennessee. | | Named Miss Basketball of New York State on three occasions. | Born Chamique (pronounced Sha-MEEK-Wah) Shaunta Holdsclaw on August 9, 1977, in Flushing, Queens, she lived with her unmarried parents, Bonita Holdsclaw and Willie Johnson until the age of eleven. Holdsclaw's mother, a data entry clerk, and her father, an auto mechanic, battled alcohol problems, leaving Holdsclaw and Davon, her younger brother, too frequently on their own. The children sometimes scrounged for meals, and were unsupervised overall, with Holdsclaw looking after her brother as best as a small girl might.
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