Marlies Askamp - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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

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

External links

WNBA.com: Marlies Askamp Bio

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