Susan King Borchardt (born Susan King on July 27, 1981) is an American professional

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player. She was born in

Richfield, Minnesota Richfield is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling. An inner ring suburb of Minneapolis, it is bordered by Minneapolis to the north, Min ...

and grew up in a family of collegiate basketball players. Her father, Gary King, played at the

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. Her brother, Stephen, played at

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. From 1994 to 2000, she attended the Academy of Holy Angels, a

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coeducational

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, where she became the first and only 7th grader in school history to play on the varsity girls' basketball team. From 2000 to 2005, she played the

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position on the women's team at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. During her freshman season, she injured the anterior cruciate ligament ( ACL) in her right knee, and missed the final 21 games of the year. While recuperating, she met her future husband,

Curtis Borchardt Curtis Alan Borchardt (born September 13, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player. He is a 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) tall center. Amateur career Borchardt played high school basketball in Sammamish, Washington (then Redmond), fo ...

, then a sophomore on Stanford's men's basketball team, who had just suffered a

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in his right foot and missed the final 14 games of his season. Eventually, they married in August 2003. After graduating, Curtis joined the

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of the

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(NBA) while Susan spent her senior year at Stanford. After graduating with a degree in

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, she was selected by the Minnesota Lynx during the 2005 WNBA draft. She saw limited time with the Lynx, playing in only three games during the regular season before being waived by the team.

Career statistics

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WNBA

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References

External links

Stanford basketball profile

WNBA Player Profile

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