Stacy Clinesmith Explained

Stacy Clinesmith
Position:Assistant coach
Team:Gonzaga Bulldogs
Height Ft:5
Height In:5
Weight Lb:148
Birth Date:22 April 1978
Birth Place:Spokane, Washington
Nationality:American
High School:Mead (Spokane, Washington)
College:UC Santa Barbara (1996–2000)
Draft League:WNBA
Draft Year:2000
Draft Round:2
Draft Pick:30
Draft Team:Sacramento Monarchs
Career Start:2000
Career End:2002
Career Number:24, 21
Career Position:Point guard / shooting guard
Coach Start:2008
Years1:2000–2001
Team1:Sacramento Monarchs
Years2:2002
Team2:Detroit Shock
Cyears1:2008–2009
Cteam1:Oregon State (DBO)
Cyears2:2010–2011
Cteam2:Central Washington (assistant)
Cyears3:2011–2014
Cteam3:Santa Clara (assistant)
Cyears4:2014–present
Cteam4:Gonzaga (assistant)
Highlights:
  • 3x First-team All-Big West (1998–2000)
  • Big West All-Freshman Team (1997)
  • Washington High School Player of the Year (1996)
  • 2x USA Today All-American

Stacy Marie Clinesmith (born April 22, 1978 in Spokane, Washington)[1] is a former professional basketball player in the WNBA and current college assistant coach for Gonzaga University.[2]

College

Clinesmith attended University of California, Santa Barbara and played basketball for four seasons there. She helped the team win four Big West Conference women's basketball tournaments and won the Big West Tournament Most Valuable Player in 2000. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

|-| align="left" | 2000| align="left" | Sacramento|26||2||11.0||35.1||29.3||82.4||1.2||1.9||0.5||0.0||1.0||2.5 |-| align="left" | 2001| align="left" | Sacramento|16||0||4.7||28.6||20.0||0.0||0.2||0.9||0.1||0.0||0.4||0.6|-| align="left" | 2002| align="left" | Detroit|12||0||8.8||38.1||40.0||83.3||0.4||1.4||0.1||0.1||0.5||2.3 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 3 years, 2 teams|54||2||8.6||34.8||30.3||82.6||0.7||1.5||0.3||0.0||0.7||1.9

Playoffs

|-| align="left" | 2000| align="left" | Sacramento|2||0||1.5||100.0||100.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.5 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team|2||0||1.5||100.0||100.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.5

College

Source[3] [4] [5]

WNBA career

Clinesmith was picked in the second round, 30th overall by the Sacramento Monarchs in the 2000 WNBA Draft. Clinesmith only appeared in 56 career WNBA games for both the Monarchs and Detroit Shock.[6]

After WNBA

After leaving the WNBA, Clinesmith was Director of Sports, USA in 2004, which she oversaw all of basketball operations in Spokane, Washington. From 2005–2007, Clinesmith was Director of the Sports Performance Extreme Enhancement Development (SPEED) program at Whitworth Physical Therapy in Spokane. She was also the owner and manager of Clinesmith Basketball, where she developed, organized and instructed basketball camps for Spokane area middle and high school girls basketball players.[7]

Coaching career

Clinesmith received her first coaching job as Director of Basketball Operations for the Oregon State Beavers women's basketball program during the 2008–2009 season.[8] Clinesmith received her first assistant coaching job at Central Washington Wildcats women's basketball program during the 2010–2011 season. Clinesmith was promoted to interim head coach for the CWU Wildcats in March 2011, but she left to become assistant coach for the Santa Clara Broncos in June of that year.[9] [10] Clinesmith remained as assistant coach for the Broncos until the end of the 2013–2014 season. In May 2014, Clinesmith was hired as an assistant coach for the Gonzaga Bulldogs women's basketball program.[11]

Personal life

Clinesmith has/had hobbies in other sports, such as mountain biking and wakeboarding.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stacy Clinesmith WNBA Stats . Sports Reference LLC . 1 September 2021.
  2. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/may/03/gonzaga-hires-stacy-clinesmith-as-womens/ Gonzaga hies Stacy Clinesmith as women's basketball assistant coach – Spokesman.com – May 3, 2014
  3. Web site: NCAA Statistics. web1.ncaa.org. 2021-06-25.
  4. Web site: FINAL 1998 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICS REPORT. 25 June 2021. NCAA.org.
  5. Web site: FINAL 1997 DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STATISTICS REPORT. 25 June 2021. NCAA.org.
  6. Web site: Stacy Clinesmith. December 13, 2015. December 22, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222105027/http://origin.wnba.com/playerfile/stacy_clinesmith/index.html. dead.
  7. Web site: Former WNBA Guard Stacy Clinesmith Added To Women's Basketball Staff. December 13, 2015.
  8. Web site: Former WNBA Guard Stacy Clinesmith Added To Women's Basketball Staff. December 13, 2015.
  9. Web site: Stacy Clinesmith: Interim Women's Basketball Head Coach. December 13, 2015.
  10. Web site: Stacy Clinesmith. December 13, 2015.
  11. Web site: GoZags.com- Stacy Clinesmith. December 7, 2021.