{"id":157551,"date":"2022-04-11T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157551"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:25:43","slug":"amy-atwell-la-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/11\/amy-atwell-la-sparks\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> star Amy Atwell selected by the Los Angeles Sparks in <abbr>WNBA<\/abbr> draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_157552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157552\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-atwell-drafted-sparks.jpg\" alt=\"person in a uniform holding a basketball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-atwell-drafted-sparks.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-atwell-drafted-sparks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-atwell-drafted-sparks-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Atwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Amy Atwell<\/strong> continues to make history as she became only the second-ever University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> women&#8217;s basketball player to be selected in the <abbr title=\"Women's National Basketball Association\">WNBA<\/abbr> draft on Monday as the Los Angeles Sparks picked her in the third round with the 27th overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>Atwell is one of the most prolific shooters in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> women&#8217;s basketball history, holding the record for most career three-pointers (205) and single-season three-pointers (76). In early March, Atwell was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/atwell-beeman-big-west-award\/\">named the Big West Conference player of the year<\/a>, becoming the first-ever Rainbow Wahine to claim the honor in the conference after averaging 17.8 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>In her sixth year with the program, fifth as an active player, Atwell capitalized on her opportunity of being granted an extra season by the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletics Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Perth, Australia native dropped 534 points over 30 games, including 13 games of 20 points or more and two 30 point contests.<\/p>\n<p>Atwell joins all-time great <strong>Judy Mosley<\/strong> as the only Rainbow Wahine to have their name called out on draft day. Mosley was part of the first-ever <abbr>WNBA<\/abbr> draft in 1997 when she was picked seventh overall by the Sacramento Monarchs.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles finished the 2021 season with a 12-20 record, placing 10th overall in the league standings. The Sparks are one of the three original organizations for when the league was founded in 1996&#8211;97 and is currently coached by former Los Angeles Laker Derek Fisher. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> head coach <strong>Laura Beeman<\/strong> spent time as an assistant coach with the Sparks in 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atwell is one of the most prolific shooters in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> women&#8217;s basketball history, holding the record for most career three-pointers and single-season three-pointers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,660,9,550],"class_list":["post-157551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157555,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157551\/revisions\/157555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}