Carla Thomas (born October 31, 1985) is a former professional basketball player for the
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Sky compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member club of the league's Eastern Conference. The franchise was founded prior to the 20 ...
of the
WNBA. She played a total of 17 games for the Sky in the 2007 season, averaging 2.5 points per game.
In 2015 she was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2019, Thomas was inducted into the Vanderbilt University Athletics Hall of Fame, where she played for four years. A graduate of
Cumberland Valley High School
Cumberland Valley High School (CV) is a public high school founded in 1954. It is located in the Cumberland Valley School District of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In the 2019–2020 school year, according to the National Cente ...
in
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Mechanicsburg is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The borough is eight miles (13 km) west of Harrisburg. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 8,981.
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, Thomas is one of the first women's basketball players to be drafted into the WNBA from the state of
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
.
Over the course of her athletic career she has won numerous individual and team accolades at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels.
Vanderbilt statistics
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Hall of Fame Class Revealed
External links
1985 births
Living people
American women's basketball players
Basketball players from Pennsylvania
Centers (basketball)
Chicago Sky draft picks
Chicago Sky players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)
People from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Power forwards (basketball)
Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball players
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