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Marlies Askamp is a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 professional basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player. She was one of the original players to play in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association
The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

 (WNBA).

Vital statistics

  • Position: Center
    Center (basketball)
    The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

  • Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
  • College: Unknown
  • Team(s): Phoenix Mercury
    Phoenix Mercury
    The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began; it is one of the eight original franchises...

    , Miami Sol
    Miami Sol
    The Miami Sol was a women's basketball team which joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000. They played their games at American Airlines Arena. The team folded after the 2002 season because of financial problems...

    , Los Angeles Sparks
    Los Angeles Sparks
    The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...

     (WNBA)

Personal

Played basketball and competed in track until at age 16. Speaks German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

.

Career highlights

  • Played in the 1999 FIBA Women's Championship with the German National Team
  • All-time leader in offensive and total rebounds for the now-defunct Miami Sol
    Miami Sol
    The Miami Sol was a women's basketball team which joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000. They played their games at American Airlines Arena. The team folded after the 2002 season because of financial problems...


Career statistics

WNBA Career Totals
Year Team G GS MIN FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PTM 3PTA REB AST STL TO BLK PTS
1997 PHX 28 1 517 70 178 71 93 0 1 146 23 21 46 9 211
1998 PHX 26 0 319 49 104 41 62 0 0 85 12 12 22 7 139
1999 PHX 30 30 781 95 197 93 114 0 2 215 25 22 37 18 283
2000 MIA 32 32 869 85 209 80 117 1 2 231 29 17 49 21 251
2001 MIA 30 11 431 28 58 18 32 0 0 87 15 12 19 11 74
2002 MIA 6 1 72 4 10 3 11 0 0 11 3 1 1 1 11
2002 LA 20 4 215 26 55 9 14 0 1 49 4 11 11 4 61
Totals 172 79 3,204 357 811 315 443 1 6 824 111 96 185 71 1,030


WNBA Career Averages
Year Team MIN FG% FT% 3PT% REB AST STL TO BLK PTS
1997 PHX 18.5 .393 .763 .000 5.2 0.8 0.8 1.6 0.3 7.5
1998 PHX 12.3 .471 .661 .000 3.3 0.5 0.5 0.9 0.3 5.3
1999 PHX 26.0 .482 .816 .000 7.2 0.8 0.7 1.2 0.6 9.4
2000 MIA 27.2 .407 .684 .500 7.2 0.9 0.5 1.5 0.7 7.8
2001 MIA 14.4 .483 .563 .000 2.9 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.4 2.5
2002 MIA 12.0 .400 .273 .000 1.8 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.2 1.8
2002 LA 10.8 .473 .643 .000 2.5 0.2 0.6 0.6 0.2 3.1
Totals 18.6 .440 .711 .167 4.8 0.6 0.6 1.1 0.4 6.0

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