2003 WNBA draft

2003 WNBA draft
2003 WNBA draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date(s)	April 24, 2003
Overview
League	WNBA
Merging teams	Miami Sol ; Portland Fire ; (both teams folded in 2002)
First selection	LaToya Thomas; Cleveland Rockers
	← 2002 2004 →

The 2003 WNBA draft, both the dispersal draft and the regular WNBA draft, took place on April 24. The dispersal draft involved players from the rosters of the Portland Fire and Miami Sol teams which had both folded after the 2002 season. For that reason, Miami's picks obtained in trades were lost.

The year brought multiple changes. Along with the folding of the Fire and the Sol, two teams moved to new cities. The Utah Starzz moved from Salt Lake City, Utah, to San Antonio, Texas, changing their name to the San Antonio Silver Stars, and the Orlando Miracle moved from Orlando, Florida, to Uncasville, Connecticut, to become the Connecticut Sun. The Sun became the first franchise not to be based in a city that also was home to an NBA franchise.

The draft itself also changed. Instead of the previous four-round format, the 2003 draft shrunk to its current format of only three rounds.

Dispersal draft

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	New team	Former team
1	Ruth Riley ⁺	C	United States	Detroit Shock	Miami Sol
2	Sheri Sam ⁺	F/G	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Miami Sol
3	Betty Lennox ⁺	G	United States	Cleveland Rockers	Miami Sol
4	Tamicha Jackson	G	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Portland Fire
5	DeMya Walker	F	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	Portland Fire
6	Debbie Black	G	United States	Connecticut Sun	Miami Sol
7	Sylvia Crawley	C	United States	Indiana Fever	Portland Fire
8	Jenny Mowe	C	United States	Washington Mystics	Portland Fire
9	Alisa Burras	F	United States	Seattle Storm	Portland Fire
10	Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough	C	United States	Charlotte Sting	Miami Sol
11	Elena Baranova ⁺	F	Russia	New York Liberty	Miami Sol
12	LaQuanda Barksdale	G/F	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Portland Fire
13	Ukari Figgs	G	United States	Houston Comets	Portland Fire
14	Jackie Stiles ^{^ +}	G	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Portland Fire

College Draft

*	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-WNBA Team
⁺	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game
Bold	Denotes player who won Rookie of the Year

Round 1

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	LaToya Thomas	F	United States	Cleveland Rockers	Mississippi State
2	Chantelle Anderson	C	Lebanon	Sacramento Monarchs	Vanderbilt
3	Cheryl Ford ⁺ ^[a]	C	United States	Detroit Shock	Louisiana Tech
4	Plenette Pierson ⁺	F	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Texas Tech
5	Kara Lawson ⁺	G	United States	Detroit Shock (from Connecticut, traded to Sacramento)	Tennessee
6	Gwen Jackson	F	United States	Indiana Fever	Tennessee
7	Aiysha Smith	C	United States	Washington Mystics	LSU
8	Jung Sun-min	C	South Korea	Seattle Storm	Gwangju Sinsegye Coolcats (South Korea)
9	Jocelyn Penn	F	United States	Charlotte Sting	South Carolina
10	Molly Creamer	G	United States	New York Liberty	Bucknell
11	Coretta Brown	G	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	North Carolina
12	Allison Curtin	G	United States	Houston Comets (traded to Detroit)	Tulsa

Notes:

Round 2

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
13	Courtney Coleman	F	United States	Connecticut Sun (from Detroit)	Ohio State
14	Teresa Edwards	G	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Georgia
15	Jennifer Butler	C	United States	Cleveland Rockers	Massachusetts
16	Petra Ujhelyi	F/C	Hungary	Phoenix Mercury (traded to Detroit)	South Carolina
17	Erin Thorn	G	United States	New York Liberty (from Sacramento)	BYU
18	Jordan Adams	C	Canada	Minnesota Lynx (from Miami)	New Mexico
19	Lori Nero	F/C	United States	Houston Comets (from Connecticut)	Louisville
20	DeTrina White	F	United States	Indiana Fever	LSU
21	Zuzana Žirková	G	Slovakia	Washington Mystics	Gambrinus Sika Brno (Czech Republic)
22	Suzy Batkovic	C	Australia	Seattle Storm	Valenciennes (France)
23	Dana Cherry	G	United States	Charlotte Sting	Arkansas
24	Sonja Mallory	C	United States	New York Liberty	Georgia Tech
25	Ke-Ke Tardy	F	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	LSU
26	K. B. Sharp	G	United States	New York Liberty (from Houston)	Cincinnati
27	Schuye LaRue	F	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Virginia

Round 3

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
28	Syreeta Bromfield	F	United States	Detroit Shock	Michigan State
29	Carla Bennett	C	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Drake
30	Shaquala Williams	G	United States	Cleveland Rockers	Oregon
31	Telisha Quarles	G	United States	Phoenix Mercury (traded to Detroit)	Virginia
32	Trish Juhline	G	United States	Washington Mystics (from Sacramento)	Villanova
33	Marion Jones	G	United States	Phoenix Mercury (from Miami)	North Carolina
34	Lindsey Wilson	G	United States	Connecticut Sun	Iowa State
35	Ashley McElhiney	G	United States	Indiana Fever	Vanderbilt
36	Tamara Bowie	F	United States	Washington Mystics	Ball State
37	Chrissy Floyd	G	United States	Seattle Storm	Clemson
38	Constance Jinks	G	United States	Houston Comets (from Charlotte)	UNLV
39	Nicole Kaczmarski	G	United States	New York Liberty	UCLA
40	Brooke Armistead	G	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Austin Peay
41	Oxana Rakhmatulina	G	Russia	Houston Comets	CSKA Samara (Russia)
42	Mary Jo Noon	C	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Purdue

References

"All-Time WNBA Draft List". WNBA. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2008.

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