Jennifer Gillom
Jennifer Gillom ( born June 13, 1964 in Abbeville, Mississippi) is a former American basketball player who played from 1997 to 2003 for the Phoenix Mercury and Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA ) on the position of the center. In its seven seasons lasting WNBA career, she was awarded the fairest player Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award with the. At the international level, she won the gold medal with the U.S. National Team at the Olympic Summer Games 1988. In addition, she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
After her playing career she was from 2009 to 2011 served as head coach of the Minnesota Lynx and Los Angeles Sparks. Since January 2012 she is an assistant coach of the Washington Mystics in the WNBA.
- 2.1 WNBA (since 2008)
- 2.2 National team (since 2010)
Playing career
Professional Basketball ( 1997-2003 )
Gillom was the Phoenix Mercury allocated in the initial allocation Player 1997. Their first game in the Women's National Basketball Association denied it on June 22, 1997 against the Charlotte Sting, in which they scored their first points. The American graduated in 1997 season 28 games - all in the starting lineup - for the Mercury, while they scored an average of 15.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. At the end of the season she was elected team for their outstanding performance in the All- WNBA Second. In addition, the Mercury qualified as the best team in the Western Conference for the playoffs, where they failed at the New York Liberty, despite home advantage in the first round.
Their second season for the Mercury she finished with an average of 20.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, which is why she was elected to the All- WNBA First Team. In addition, she managed the Mercury for the first time a place in the WNBA Finals, where they failed because of the Houston Comets with 1:2 in games. Gillom remained until the 2002 season, part of the squad of Mercury with which it only in the 2000 season once again reached the playoffs this time. In her last season for the franchise in Phoenix Gillom was that ended no season for the Mercury with a points average of less than 12 points, Kim Perrot Sportsmanship awarded the Award as fairest player in the league.
After six seasons in Phoenix in 2003, she finished her career as a player with the Los Angeles Sparks. The Sparks reached this season for the third time in a row the WNBA Finals, where they failed at the Detroit Shock with 1:2 in games.
National
Gillom won in 1988 with the U.S. national team's gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988.
Coaching career
WNBA (since 2008)
Jennifer Gillom returned after the end of her career as a player to Phoenix, where she served the high school basketball team in the Xavier College Preparatory, among others. In 2008 she became an assistant coach of the Minnesota Lynx in the Women's National Basketball Association. In the spring of 2009, Don ornaments resigned the head coach of the Lynx, Gillom took over as coach on an interim basis until end of season. The following year, she was appointed head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks. In her first season for the Sparks after a weak start for the first time it reached the playoffs, where the Sparks failed due to the Seattle Storm. Early July 2011, Gillom was replaced by Joe Bryant as head coach of the Sparks. Since January 2012, Gillom has worked as an assistant coach with the Washington Mystics.
National (since 2010)
In the Basketball World Championship 2010 in the Czech Republic she worked as an assistant coach the U.S. national team, with whom she won the gold medal at the tournament. Early 2012 gave the U.S. Basketball Association announced that Gillom will serve the national and at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London as an assistant coach.