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Wauters Tabbed Western Conference Player Of The Week

September 15, 2008 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
San Antonio Stars News Release


SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio Silver Stars center Ann Wauters is the Western Conference Player of the Week, the WNBA announced today.

Wauters picks up the first Player of the Week award of her career following a week in which she averaged 15.3 points, 9.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.3 blocks per game while shooting 61.3 percent (19-31) on field goals. San Antonio concluded the 2008 regular season with a five-game winning streak, including victories over three playoff teams (New York, Connecticut and Sacramento). Wauters is the third Silver Stars player to earn Player of the Week in 2008, along with Sophia Young and Becky Hammon.

Wauters led the team in rebounds against Connecticut and New York with 15 and 10, respectively, and then paced the team in scoring with 18 points against Sacramento in the regular season finale. Against the Monarchs, Wauters was flawless from the field, finishing 9-for-9 in the 77-69 win. Her 15 rebounds against Connecticut marked a career high to break her previous record of 14 which she set June 18 at Atlanta.

In her sixth season, she averaged career highs in points (14.7 ppg), rebounds (7.5 rpg), assists (1.8 apg), steals (1.1 spg) and blocks (1.2 bpg). On the year, she tied for third in the league in double-doubles with nine and finished fifth among league leaders in rebounds. The former No. 1 overall pick of the Cleveland Rockers, she returned to the league in 2008 after electing to play overseas only following the 2005 season when she last played for New York. Her rights were selected by Atlanta in the 2008 WNBA Expansion Draft and she was subsequently traded to San Antonio on April 9 where she was reunited with Dan Hughes, her coach with Cleveland.

Indiana's Tammy Sutton-Brown picked up the honor for the Eastern Conference.

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