Suzanne Brigit Bird is an Israeli-American professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association. She was drafted by the Storm first overall in the 2002 WNBA draft. Bird has won a joint-record four WNBA championships with the Storm and four Olympic gold medals with UConn. In 2011, she was voted by fans as one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Players of All Time.
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Suzanne Brigit Bird is an Israeli-American professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association. She was drafted by the Storm first overall in the 2002 WNBA draft. Bird has won a joint-record four WNBA championships with the Storm and four Olympic gold medals with UConn. She is one of only 11 women to attain all four accolades. In 2011, she was voted by fans as one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Players of All Time. Bird was born in Syosset, Nassau County, New York, on Long Island to Herschel and Nancy Bird. Her father’s ancestry is Russian Jewish, and their original last name was \”Boorda\”. She also holds Israeli citizenship but represents her birth country in international competitions. Bird is also a five-time EuroLeague Champion. During her WNBA career, she has been selected to eleven WNBA All-Star teams and eight All-WNBA teams. She currently ranks No. 24 on the 1,000-point list with 1,378 points, No. 1 in assists with 585 steals, and seventh with 243 steals. She took the eponymous shot at the buzzer to win the game in which she took the shot. Bird played her junior year in a game against Notre Dame in which her shot was memorialized in a book, Birder at the Buzzer. In her senior year at undefeated UConn in 2002, she won the Wade Trophy and the Naismith Award as College Player of the Year. She finished her UConn career ranked first in three-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage, second in assists and steals, while leading her team to a record of 114–4.
In the last season of her college career, as the Huskies went 39–0 in 2001, she also won the Honda Sports Award as college player of the year. She has also played for three teams in Russia. She held a front office position for the NBA’s Denver Nuggets as their Basketball Operations Associate. She played soccer and tennis and ran track. Bird started playing AAU basketball in the sixth grade, and won many awards, including the New York State Player of. the Year, and the New New York Daily News Player ofThe Year. In high school she was the New. New York state championship and won the national title. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored 11 points. Bird spent two seasons at Christ the King Regional High School and the Royals went 24–3 her junior season. She also played in the 2000 NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament. Her sophomore season, she came back to lead theteam to a 36–1 record, the Big East Championship, and. the Big. East Championship. Bird’s junior year. In her sophomore season, she was named a WBCa All-American. Bird was recruited by a number of teams including Stanford and Vanderbilt. She considered UConn the favorite, but she began to waver when Keirsten Walters and Brianne Stepherson, both point guards, announced commitments to Boston College.
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