Johannah Leedham-Warner (born 12 May 1987) is a
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player for
Great Britain women's national basketball team
The Great Britain women's national basketball team represents Great Britain in international women's basketball. The current governing body for the Great Britain team was formed by the national basketball organisations of England (Basketball Engl ...
and for French club
ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq
ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a French women's basketball club from Villeneuve-d'Ascq playing in the Ligue Féminine de Basketball since 2000.
Honours
* Ligue Féminine
** Winners (1): 2017
* French Cup
** Runner-up (3): 2003, 2008, 2014
* EuroC ...
.
Early life and college career
She was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire and started playing basketball at the age of 13. Her father encouraged this new interest, putting a net up on the outside of their house. Jo played with the Ellesmere Port Panthers before gaining a place at Cheshire Academy High School, Connecticut (while playing for them she was New England Prep School Player of the Year in 2005), and, subsequently, Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire, where she became the leading all-time scorer in NCAA Division II with 3050 points.
Professional career
In April 2010, Jo was drafted by the WNBA's
Connecticut Sun
The Connecticut Sun are an American professional basketball team based in Uncasville, Connecticut that competes in the Eastern Conference of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
The team was established as the Orlando Miracle in ...
and made her professional debut with Polish club Gorzow.
She has spent the 2011-12 campaign in Australia, playing in the
WNBL for the national champions
Bulleen Boomers under GB head coach
Tom Maher
Tom Maher (born 4 September 1952 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian basketball coach, who is the most successful coach in Women's National Basketball League history, having won nine WNBL titles. He coached Nunawading Spectres to six ti ...
. She is part of the squad for the
2012 Summer Olympics. In February 2013 she signed a rookie contract to play for the
Connecticut Sun
The Connecticut Sun are an American professional basketball team based in Uncasville, Connecticut that competes in the Eastern Conference of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
The team was established as the Orlando Miracle in ...
of the
WNBA but was ultimately waived on 23 May 2013.
In 2013, she signed a two-year deal with
Bourges in France and in 2017 joined
ESBVA.
References
External links
Johannah Leedhamat Eurobasket.com
1987 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
British women's basketball players
College women's basketball players in the United States
Connecticut Sun draft picks
English women's basketball players
Franklin Pierce University alumni
Olympic basketball players of Great Britain
People from Ellesmere Port
Small forwards
Cheshire Academy alumni
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