Sui Feifei (; born January 29, 1979, in

Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

) is a

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player who was signed with the

Sacramento Monarchs The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009. They played their home games at ARCO Arena. The Mona ...

of the WNBA. She was born and raised in

in the

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, and is 1.84 m (6 ft 1 in.) tall. She was the MVP of the 2004–2005 WCBA season, where she led her team Bayi China Telecom to three consecutive championships. Sui was named the Women's Chinese Basketball Association's most popular player in 2002 and 2003. On February 15, 2005, Sui signed a contract with the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs and was drafted in April of that year, becoming the second Chinese woman basketball player to join the WNBA. As of 2006, she was playing as guard. Her teammate

Miao Lijie Miao Lijie (苗立杰, born June 3, 1981 in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a female Chinese people, Chinese basketball player who was part of the team that won the gold medal at the Women's ABC Championship 2001, 2001 Asian Championship. In 2005, she ...

also signed with the Monarchs.

External links

WNBA bio

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