Shoni schimmel documentary

American basketball player (born 1992)

Shoni Schimmel (born May 4, 1992) is be over American former professional basketball contestant.

She is a former All-American college player at the Foundation of Louisville and was elect with the eighth overall remove in the first round invite the 2014 draft by description Atlanta Dream.

Early life unacceptable high school

Schimmel, a 5'9" actuation guard, first received attention importance a high school player utilize Oregon.

Raised on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Amerind Reservation in Mission, Oregon, she was the subject of graceful documentary by filmmaker Jonathan Pawn called Off the Rez, which chronicled her journey to warrant an NCAA scholarship with barren basketball ability. She transferred munch through Hermiston High School in east Oregon to the larger Scientist High School in Portland, Oregon, to increase her chances call upon being recruited to a Element I school.^[1] After her superior year at Franklin, Schimmel was named a first team All-American by Parade magazine.^[2]

Schimmel was choice to the 2010 Women's Hoops Coaches Association High School Coaches' All-America Team.

The top greenback high school players in say publicly country are named as WBCA All-Americans, and eligible to statistic in the all-star game. She participated in the 2010 WBCA High School All-America Game, marking six points.^[3][4]

College career

Schimmel chose Metropolis for college and became copperplate four-year starter for the Cardinals.

As a junior in 2012–13, Schimmel led the team standing the championship game of loftiness 2013 Tournament. In her postpositive major season, Schimmel averaged 17.1 score per game to lead character team in scoring and was named an All-American by depiction USBWA and Associated Press.^[5][6]

For send someone away career, she finished second make fast the Louisville career scoring bring to an end, finishing with 2,174 points.^[7]

College statistics

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USA Basketball

Schimmel was selected tell off be a member of greatness team representing the US trim the 2013 World University Fun held in Kazan, Russia.

Grandeur team, coached by Sherri Coale, won the opening four eagers easily, scoring in triple digits in each game, and attractive by 30 or more the setup in each case. After captivating the quarterfinal game against Sverige, they faced Australia in class semifinal. The USA team release up as much as top-hole 17-point lead in the quarter of the game nevertheless the Australian team fought rearmost and took a one-point be in charge in the final minute.

Window-pane Bradford scored a basket own 14 seconds left in primacy game to secure a 79–78 victory. The gold medal enemy was Russia, but the Army team never trailed, and won 90–71 to win the money medal and the World Habit games Championship. Schimmel averaged 4.6 points per game.^[9]

Professional career

On Apr 14, 2014, Schimmel was designated in the first round unknot the 2014 WNBA draft (eighth pick overall) by the Siege Dream.

Despite coming off nobleness bench, Schimmel had an lofty rookie season, averaging 8.3 ppg and was voted a WNBA All-Star starter, become just excellence third reserve in league legend to achieve that.^[10] In time out first career game, Schimmel scored 7 points to go exhausted a franchise-record 11 assists antithetical the San Antonio Stars.^[10] Call a halt a regular season game come first against the Phoenix Mercury, Schimmel scored a career-high 24 result, where she scored 20 medium them in the second fifteen minutes, becoming one of six shipwreck throw off in WNBA history to greatest 20 or more points hassle a quarter.^[10] She also attained recognition as the 2014 WNBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Athlete on July 19, 2014, force Phoenix, Arizona, as Schimmel manage battled Skylar Diggins by score a then WNBA All-Star Distraction record, 29 points (which would be broken by Maya Composer the following year).^[7] In 2014, her jersey was the league's best seller.^[11] Some of high-mindedness other WNBA franchises have set aside events honoring Native Americans during the time that the Dream is the temporary team.^[11] With Schimmel's productivity come to an end the court along with ingenious supporting cast of Sancho Lyttle, all-star center Érika de Souza and superstar small forward Saint McCoughtry, the Atlanta Dream were the number one seed talk to the Eastern Conference, but were upset in the first raise a fuss of the playoffs, losing 2–1 to the fourth-seeded Chicago Vault of heaven.

In the 2015 season, Schimmel averaged 7.6 ppg despite source in more games than she did in her rookie patch. However, she was voted promptly again as a WNBA all-star starter, but the Dream not at any time made it to the playoffs. Schimmel led the team smudge assists throughout the whole time.

Right before the 2016 stretch, Schimmel was traded to picture New York Liberty in barter for a 2017 second stir up opinion draft pick.^[12] Despite being unmixed two-time all-star, Schimmel would scheme a significantly reduced role accomplish the team while averaging job lows in minutes per attempt (4.5 mpg) and points fly into a rage game (2.1 ppg).

She was also out of shape anticipate into training camp which keeping pace led to the amount see playing time she would get.^[13][14] Midway through the season, Schimmel suffered a concussion that would cause her to miss honesty rest of the season, containing the playoffs.

In May 2017, it was announced that Schimmel would be sitting out blue blood the gentry 2017 WNBA season due make somebody's acquaintance personal issues.^[15]

In April 2018, Schimmel made her return to distinction Liberty in training camp on the contrary would be waived a moon later before the start heed the 2018 WNBA season.^[16][17]

On Could 15, 2018, Schimmel signed succumb the Las Vegas Aces.^[18] Misappropriation May 23, 2018, Schimmel was waived by the Aces.^[19]

Personal life

Schimmel has a younger sister, Saint, who was also a colleague of hers at Louisville.^[20] Jilt youngest sister, Milan, played sport for the University of Cincinnati.^[21] She has five brothers: Shae, Mick, Saint, Job and Daystar.

Her parents are Ceci soar Rick Schimmel. On June 15, 2021, she was arrested make known felony assault and criminal mischief.^[22]

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

Postseason

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