Women's Basketball: Paige to WNBA Pre-Draft Camp
April 05, 2005 01:43 PM | General
April 5, 2005
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -– West Virginia University senior point guard Yolanda Paige has been selected to attend the WNBA's pre-draft camp that will be held this weekend, April 8-10, at the New York Liberty Training Facility, in Tarrytown, N.Y.
She is just one of 40 top college prospects invited to attend the three-day camp which offers WNBA coaches and general managers the opportunity to evaluate the skills of the incoming collegiate draft class in advance of the 2005 WNBA Draft on April 16.
Paige, a 5-foot-6-inch Virginia Beach, Va., native, and this past season's national assist leader at 8.7 per contest, finished her career with 902 assists, seventh all-time in NCAA history. She finished the 2004-05 campaign with 424 points (12.5 ppg), 297 assists (a WVU single season record) and 108 rebounds en route to garnering AP All-American honorable mention honors.
She guided WVU to a 21-13 record on the season and to the WNIT Championship game last week. For her efforts she was named to the all-tournament team.
League-appointed personnel will conduct player physical examinations on Friday, April 8, with on-court sessions scheduled for all day on Saturday, April 9, and the morning of Sunday, April 10.
The 2005 WNBA Draft will begin at noon at the NBA Entertainment Studios in Secaucus, N.J. ESPN2 will televise the first round live with NBATV providing coverage of the second and third rounds.
WNBA.com will cover all three rounds, providing complete analysis and comprehensive information on all 13 teams' selections together with pre-draft coverage of prospective draftees by Rebecca Lobo, ESPN's Ann Meyers and Sacramento Monarchs guard and ESPN analyst Kara Lawson.
For more information on the 2005 WNBA draft, log onto www.wnba.com/draft2005/.
