Katie Douglas

Katie Douglas
Personal information
Born (1979-05-07) May 7, 1979
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight 165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
High school Perry Meridian (Indianapolis, Indiana)
College Purdue (1997–2001)
WNBA draft 2001 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10th overall
Selected by the Orlando Miracle
Playing career 2001–2014
Position Guard / Forward
Career history
2001–2002 Orlando Miracle
2002–2003 Ano Liosia Basketball
2003–2004 S.U. Glyfada Esperides Kyklos
2003–2007 Connecticut Sun
2004–2007 Vilnius
2007–2008 Ros Casares Valencia
2008–2009 CSKA Moscow
2008–2013 Indiana Fever
2009–2010 Galatasaray
2010–2011 Ros Casares Valencia
2011–2012 Nadezhda Orenburg
2012–2013[1] Wisła Can-Pack Kraków
2014 Connecticut Sun
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals
Women's Basketball
Competitor for USA
World University Games
1999 Palma de Mallorca Team Competition

Kathryn Elizabeth "Katie" Douglas (born May 7, 1979) is a retired American professional basketball player. Her primary position is shooting guard, her secondary is small forward. She is known league-wide for her long-range shooting ability. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Douglas is left-handed.

In the WNBA, she has been a multiple time WNBA All-Star and has been a selection to both the All-WNBA Team and WNBA All-Defensive First Team. She won WNBA Championship with the Indiana Fever in 2012.

College years

After attending Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis, Douglas attended Purdue University and graduated in 2001 as a communications major. She helped lead Purdue to a NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1999 and was a two-time Kodak All-America in 2000 and 2001, as well as being named to the 1999 and 2001 NCAA Women's Final Four All-Tournament Team. She shared Big Ten Conference Player of the Year honors in 2000 with Helen Darling, and in 2001 was the unanimous Big Ten Player of the Year and winner of the Silver Basketball from the Chicago Tribune. Douglas also received the 2001 Big Ten Conference Suzy Favor Award, which is given to the conference's female athlete of the year across all sports. Douglas played at Purdue for head coach Carolyn Peck.

USA Basketball

Douglas played on the team presenting the USA at the 1999 World University Games held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The team had a 4–2 record and earned the silver medal. Douglas was the leading scorer on the USA team with 17.6 points per game.[2]

WNBA career

Douglas was selected the 10th overall pick by the Orlando Miracle in the 2001 WNBA Draft. She remained with the franchise even when the Miracle relocated to Uncasville, Connecticut, and was renamed the Connecticut Sun prior to the 2003 season. Following the 2005 WNBA season, Douglas was named to the WNBA All-Defensive First Team. In 2006, she was named Most Valuable Player of the 2006 WNBA All-Star Game.

In 2007 Douglas ranked 5th in the league in steals (65), 7th in scoring (577), and 12th in assists (125). Douglas was again selected for the WNBA All-Defensive First Team.

On February 19, 2008, the Connecticut Sun traded Douglas to the Indiana Fever for Tamika Whitmore and the Fever's first round pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft.[3] She won her first WNBA Championship with the team in 2012. It was her fourth career WNBA Finals appearance, although she was sidelined for the series after sustaining an ankle injury during the Eastern Conference Finals.[4]

On March 24, 2014, Douglas signed with the Connecticut Sun, which she previously played from 2003–2007.[5]

On May 1, 2015, Douglas announced her retirement after 14 seasons in the WNBA.[6]

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high League leader

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2001 Orlando 22 0 20.0 .362 .316 .723 2.3 1.8 1.7 0.3 2.00 7.0
2002 Orlando 32 30 25.9 .449 .367 .866 4.2 1.7 1.5 0.4 1.31 8.5
2003 Connecticut 28 27 30.1 .438 .382 .721 3.8 2.0 1.1 0.4 1.00 12.0
2004 Connecticut 34 34 32.9 .389 .346 .792 3.9 2.6 1.5 0.4 1.53 10.7
2005 Connecticut 32 32 31.2 .413 .282 .774 4.1 2.9 1.5 0.1 1.69 11.0
2006 Connecticut 32 32 31.3 .443 .422 .839 3.8 2.5 1.9 0.1 2.28 16.4
2007 Connecticut 34 34 33.3 .428 .338 .779 4.6 3.7 1.9 0.3 2.79 17.0
2008 Indiana 33 33 34.4 .371 .324 .799 4.1 3.2 1.6 0.3 3.03 15.6
2009 Indiana 31 31 32.4 .410 .349 .861 3.9 2.7 1.8 0.2 2.42 17.6
2010 Indiana 34 34 29.8 .449 .391 .831 3.4 3.3 1.4 0.4 1.97 13.7
2011 Indiana 32 32 29.4 .465 .440 .671 3.9 2.8 1.3 0.3 2.03 13.9
2012 Indiana 32 32 30.9 .413 .423 .844 3.8 2.2 1.5 0.3 1.66 16.5
2013 Indiana 4 4 35.8 .389 .259 1.00 2.8 1.5 1.8 0.5 2.75 15.0
2014 Connecticut 32 32 32.5 .358 .356 .848 3.3 2.2 0.9 0.4 2.22 13.1
Career 14 years, 3 teams 412 387 30.7 .415 .367 .805 3.8 2.6 1.5 0.3 2.05 13.5

Postseason

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2003 Connecticut 4 4 31.5 .333 .250 .857 2.5 3.0 0.8 0.2 0.25 7.3
2004 Connecticut 8 8 33.5 .348 .297 .926 4.0 2.8 1.2 0.0 2.00 10.3
2005 Connecticut 8 8 34.8 .463 .395 .655 4.6 2.3 1.4 0.1 1.00 12.0
2006 Connecticut 4 4 31.3 .400 .296 .800 3.8 2.5 1.0 0.2 2.75 12.0
2007 Connecticut 3 3 38.0 .346 .286 .889 5.3 3.3 3.3 0.0 5.00 17.3
2008 Indiana 3 3 31.0 .318 .125 .700 2.3 2.3 1.3 0.7 3.33 7.3
2009 Indiana 10 10 36.1 .362 .310 .814 3.5 4.0 1.4 0.6 1.90 15.5
2010 Indiana 3 3 31.7 .458 .333 .833 3.0 3.3 1.3 0.3 1.00 11.7
2011 Indiana 6 6 33.5 .426 .436 .840 5.0 2.7 0.8 0.2 2.17 19.7
2012 Indiana 7 6 24.6 .455 .355 .750 2.0 1.3 1.0 0.0 1.57 13.3
Career 10 years, 2 teams 56 55 32.7 .395 .331 .803 3.7 2.8 1.3 0.2 1.91 13.0

Personal information

Douglas lost both her parents to cancer – father in 1997 and her mother less than three years later in 2000. She was awarded the first-ever Jim V Foundation Comeback of the Year Award in 2001 for her perseverance after a string of tragic, personal losses.[7]

One week after the 2005 WNBA Finals loss to the Sacramento Monarchs, Douglas married Vasilis Giapalakis in Athens, Greece. Giapalakis is a sports agent who represents male and female basketball players. Douglas, who played for a Lithuanian basketball team in the WNBA offseason, met Giapalakis when she was playing for a Greek club. They have since divorced. She will remarry in July 2015.

Douglas played for Ros Casares Valencia in Spain during the 2007–08 WNBA off-season.[8] She played for CSKA in Russia during the 2008–09 WNBA off-season.[9]

During the 2009–10 WNBA offseason, Douglas played in the EuroLeague for Galatasaray, a club based in Turkey.[10]

Katie Douglas' agent Jim Tanner of Tandem Sports and Entertainment told Indianapolis Star that The Sun guaranteed the free agent a maximum contract — $107,500 for the first year and $109,500 for the second and Fever declined to do so.

Awards and achievements

References

  1. ↑ "TINA CHARLES joins Wisła Can-Pack!". Wisła Can-Pack. 5 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "Nineteenth World University Games -- 1999". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Woods, David (2008-02-18). "Fever to acquire Indy native Douglas | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star". IndyStar.com. Retrieved 2011-12-22.
  4. ↑ Voepel, Mechelle (October 21, 2012). "Turning disappointment into a title". ESPN. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Sun Sign Katie Douglas To Free Agent Contract
  6. ↑ Katie Douglas Announces Retirement
  7. ↑ "2010 V Foundation Comeback Award Finalists Announced". The V Foundation,. August 11, 2011. Retrieved 25 Oct 2013.
  8. ↑ "Offseason 2007–08: Overseas Roster". Wnba.com. 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2011-12-22.
  9. ↑ "Offseason 2008–09: Overseas Roster". Wnba.com. 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2011-12-22.
  10. ↑ "Katie Douglas Galatasaray'da". Galatasaray.org. Retrieved 2011-12-22.

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