Blake Dietrick Explained

Blake Dietrick
League:WNBA
Number:13
Position:Point guard
Height Ft:5
Height In:10
Weight Lb:169
Nationality:American
Birth Date:19 July 1993
Birth Place:Wellesley, Massachusetts
High School:Wellesley
(Wellesley, Massachusetts)
College:Princeton (2011–2015)
Draft League:WNBA
Draft Year:2015
Career Start:2016
Years1:2016
Team1:Seattle Storm
Years2:2016
Team2:San Antonio Stars
Years3:2016–2017
Team3:Bendigo Spirit
Years4:2017–2018
Team4:AO Dafni Agioy Dimitriou
Years5:2018
Team5:Atlanta Dream
Years6:2018-2020
Team6:Gernika KESB
Years7:2019
Team7:Seattle Storm
Years8:2021
Team8:Atlanta Dream
Years9:2021-2022
Team9:Le Mura Lucca
Years10:2022-2023
Years11:2024
Team11:Union Féminine Angers Basket 49
Highlights:
  • Ivy League Player of the Year (2015)
  • 2x First-team All-Ivy (2014, 2015)
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Blake Julia Dietrick (born July 19, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who is a free agent. She played previously for the Atlanta Dream and the Seattle Storm in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Gernika KESB in Spain. She played college basketball at Princeton.

High school and college

Born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Dietrick played basketball for Wellesley High School, where she scored a school record 1,440 career points, leading the team to an 84–9 record during that time. Dietrick was also a three-time All-American in lacrosse, earning first team US Lacrosse honors her sophomore through senior years.[1]

In her final season for Princeton, Dietrick was named Ivy League Player of the Year and chosen as an All-American honorable mention by the Associated Press and Women's Basketball Coaches Association. She also led the Ivy League in assists (4.9/game) while setting her school's single-season assists record (157). Princeton went 30–0 during regular season, won the conference outright, received a bid to the 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament and advanced to the second round.

Professional career

In 2016, she was chosen as a free agent by the Seattle Storm and played in two games. She later signed a 7-day contract with the San Antonio Stars and played in one game. She then went on to play for a year for the Bendigo Spirit of Australia's WNBL. From 2017 to 2018, she was on the Greek AO Dafni Agioy Dimitriou team.

In 2015, she had training camp stints with the Washington Mystics and Los Angeles Sparks but was later waived.

In the 2022–2023 season, she won the Ligue Féminine de Basketball and the EuroCup Women with her team ASVEL Féminin.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

|-| align="left" rowspan=2 | 2016| align="left" | Seattle|2||0||3.0||0.0||0.0||100.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.5||1.0 |-| align="left" | San Antonio|1||0||8.0||50.0||0.0||0.0||3.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||2.0 |-| align="left" | 2017| style="text-align:center;" colspan="13" |Did not play (did not appear in WNBA)|-| align="left" | 2018| align="left" | Atlanta|26||0||7.2||34.3||39.1||66.7||0.5||0.4||0.3||0.0||0.5||1.4 |-| align="left" | 2019| align="left" | Seattle|17||1||6.2||10.0||0.0||66.7||0.6||0.9||0.2||0.1||0.6||0.4 |-| align="left" | 2020| align="left" | Atlanta|22||4||21.0||47.1||44.8||62.5||1.6||3.4||0.8||0.1||1.8||5.9 |-| align="left" | 2021| align="left" | Atlanta|9||0||15.7||29.6||31.3||0.0||1.6||1.2||0.6||0.1||0.6||2.3 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 6 years, 3 teams|77||5||11.8||39.9||38.5||68.2||1.0||1.5||0.4||0.1||0.9||2.6

Playoffs

|-| align="left" | 2018| align="left" | Atlanta|3||0||5.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.3||0.7||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0|-| align="left" | 2019| align="left" | Seattle|1||0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 2 years, 2 teams|4||0||3.8||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.0||0.5||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0

College

Denotes seasons in which Princeton won the Ivy League championship
Year !Team GP !Points FG% !3P% FT% !RPG APG !SPG BPG !PPG - 2011–12† 23 91 47.6 46.3 80.0 1.6 0.3 0.1 0.1 3.96 - 2012–13† Princeton 29 231 39.2 35.6 68.4 3.4 2.8 0.9 0.1 7.97 - 2013–14 Princeton 30 428 46.4 40.0 85.2 5.3 3.4 1.2 0.2 14.26 - 2014–15† 32 483 48.9 40.9 70.3 4.5 4.9 1.2 0.1 15.09 - Career Princeton 114 1233 45.9 39.6 75.9 3.6 3.0 0.9 0.1 10.8
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-03-27. Blake Dietrick Willed Her Way to WNBA, From Princeton to Abroad. 2021-03-05. Nothing But Nylon. en-US.