Rhonda Banchero Explained

Rhonda Smith-Banchero
Height Ft:	6
Height In:	3
Weight Lbs:	185
Birth Date:	May 1, 1973
Birth Place:	Seattle, Washington
Nationality:	American
High School:	Franklin (Seattle, Washington)
College:	Washington (1991–1995)
Career Position:	Center
Career Start:	1995
Career End:	2001
Draft League:	WNBA
Draft Year:	2000
Draft Round:	3
Draft Pick:	46
Draft Team:	Sacramento Monarchs
Years1:	1996–1998
Team1:	Seattle Reign
Years2:	1998
Team2:	Portland Power
Years3:	2000
Team3:	Sacramento Monarchs
Highlights:	3x All Pac-12 (1993–1995)

Rhonda Smith-Banchero (; born May 1, 1973) is an American former basketball player. She played college basketball for the Washington Huskies^{[1] [2]} where she graduated as the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,948 points and was inducted to the Husky Hall of Fame in 2004. She went on to play professionally for several seasons, including for the Sacramento Monarchs in the WNBA.^[3]

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

|-| align="left" | 2000| align="left" | Sacramento|9||0||2.3||28.6||0.0||50.0||0.3||0.1||0.0||0.0||0.2||0.7 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team|9||0||2.3||28.6||0.0||50.0||0.3||0.1||0.0||0.0||0.2||0.7

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1991–92| style="text-align:left;" | Washington|27||-||-||47.4||0.0||55.7||4.0||0.2||0.8||0.2||-||7.5|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1992–93| style="text-align:left;" | Washington|27||-||-||56.3||0.0||57.1||6.9||0.3||1.3||0.4||-||17.9 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1993–94| style="text-align:left;" | Washington|29||-||-||54.7||0.0||56.9||7.8||0.7||1.5||0.2||-||18.4 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1994–95| style="text-align:left;" | Washington|33||-||-||51.4||40.0||65.9||8.5||1.0||1.5||0.3||-||17.7 |-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|116||-||-||53.0||33.3||59.7||6.9||0.6||1.3||0.3||-||15.5 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.^[4]

Personal life

Smith-Banchero is the mother of Paolo Banchero.^[5]

External links

• WNBA statistics at Basketball Reference
• Washington Huskies profile

Notes and References

1. News: Terry Mosher . Huskies' Smith no powderpuff . 2 December 2023 . . 15 March 1995 . C1–C2 . Newspapers.com.
2. News: Theresa Smith . You can always count on mom . 2 December 2023 . . 8 March 1994 . C1, C5 . Newspapers.com.
3. News: Jon Marmor . Rhonda Smith, ’95, lives her dream of playing pro basketball in Seattle . 30 November 2021 . University of Washington Magazine . 1 March 1998.
4. Web site: Rhonda Banchero College Stats. Sports-Reference. April 11, 2024.
5. News: Dan Raley . S-I Chooses Seattle's Paolo Banchero to Its All-American Team . 30 November 2021 . . 1 April 2020.