Courtney Vandersloot
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"Courtney Vandersloot" is an American basketball player, currently a point guard with the Chicago Sky in the Women's National Basketball Association/WNBA and Be?ikta? Cola Turka (women's basketball)/Be?ikta? in the Turkish Women's Basketball League (TKBL). The third selection in the 2011 WNBA Draft, she had a successful first season in which she was selected for the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game and named to the WNBA All-Rookie Team.

During her college career at Gonzaga Bulldogs/Gonzaga University, she was the only women's player in West Coast Conference history to be named the conference's player of the year three times, and also the only player to be named MVP of the West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament/WCC Women's Tournament three times. In her final season at Gonzaga, she won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top Division I (NCAA)/NCAA Division I women's player no taller than 5'8" (1.73 m) and Nancy Lieberman Award as the top player at her position in Division I women's basketball. Vandersloot is also the first Division I player, male or female, to have accumulated 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career, and only the second female overall (current Old Dominion Lady Monarchs basketball/Old Dominion head coach Karen Barefoot accomplished the feat at Division III (NCAA)/Division III Christopher Newport University).

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It's super important to come and get on teams early. We like to find weaknesses and then take advantage.

(But) this gives us our first view of what teams are like at state.

That's the biggest team I've ever played against.

It's going to be a battle. We need to forget about our last win against them. Both teams are coming out with clean slates now. Anything can happen. We just have to play hard.

When my shot isn't dropping, I've got to go to other players who can score. We have a lot players who can put the ball in the basket.

Every game, we try to faze (opponents) with our pressure. We want them to be scared to get the ball in bounds.

Every game we come out with pressure. We want them to be scared to get the ball in.

Our freshmen are really stepping up. They've been helping us and carrying us lately.

It's unbelievable. That was our goal from the start and we came out and accomplished it. I think our pressure just wore on them.