Tamara Kim "Tammy" Sutton-Brown (born January 27, 1978) is a Canadian retired professional

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player. Her primary position was center. Throughout her playing career, Sutton-Brown played for the

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and

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of the

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(WNBA). She had also played in

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and

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. Sutton-Brown has won a

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(

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) and is a two-time WNBA All-Star.

School years

Born in

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, Sutton-Brown was rated Canada's top female at Armadale public school basketball prospect by the ''

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''.

College years

Sutton-Brown attended

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, where she majored in women's studies. As a senior, she was nicknamed

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from the

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movie "

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" due to her coming of age at Rutgers. She owns a career field goal percentage of 57.6 which ranks third in the Rutgers career records.

WNBA career

Sutton-Brown was selected 18th overall in the second round of the 2001 WNBA draft by the

. In her rookie season, Sutton-Brown experienced her first WNBA Finals appearance as the Sting advanced all the way to the WNBA Finals but were defeated in a 2-game sweep by the

Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Sparks (LA Sparks) are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Sparks compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The team was foun ...

. Sutton-Brown had a breakout year in her second season, averaging 11.9 ppg, 6.0 rpg and 1.1 bpg. Her season performance got her selected into the 2002 WNBA All-Star Game, becoming the first Canadian WNBA player to be voted as an all-star. Sutton-Brown finished the 2004 season ranked second in the WNBA in blocks (a career-high 2.0 bpg). She became the Sting's all-time leader in blocks in 2004 with 196 career blocked shots, and as of 2006 only the 10th player to achieve 200 blocks. After the 2006 season ended, the Sting ceased operations and most of the remaining players were entered in a

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that followed the Sting's demise. Since she was an

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at the end of the 2006 season, she was exempt from entering the

. However, on March 22, 2007, she signed with the

. She would play alongside superstar forward

Tamika Catchings Tamika Devonne Catchings (born July 21, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Catchings has won a WNBA champio ...

. During the 2007 season with the Fever, Sutton-Brown was selected into the

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and had averaged a career-high in scoring with 12 ppg. In the 2009 season, Sutton-Brown experienced her second WNBA Finals appearance as the Fever advanced all the way to the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history, but fell short to the

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in five games. During her final season in the WNBA, Sutton-Brown became the fifth player in league history to accumulate 3,000 points, 2,000 rebounds and 400 blocks in their career. Later on in the season, Sutton-Brown won her first WNBA championship with the Fever in

when they defeated the

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3-1 in the finals. Following the championship victory, Sutton-Brown became a free agent and eventually retired from the WNBA after 12 seasons. As of her retirement, Sutton-Brown ranks 22nd in career rebounds and 5th in career blocks.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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Postseason

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Overseas career

Sutton-Brown's first season overseas was in

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where she played for the Kumho Life Falcons in 2001–02 off-season. In the 2002–03 off-season, Sutton-Brown played for

VBM-SGAU Samara CSKA Samara is a Russian women's basketball team from Samara, Russia Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located ...

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. In the 2003–04 off-season, Sutton-Brown returned to Korea to play for the Kumho Life Falcons and won a championship with the team. In the 2004–05 off-season, Sutton-Brown played for

USK Prague USK Praha, ( cs, Univerzitní Sportovní Klub Praha, University Sports Club Prague), formerly known as Slavia VŠ Praha ( cs, Slavia Vysoké Školy Praha), is a Czech Republic, Czech professional basketball Club (organization), club that was fo ...

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and spent the rest of the off-season playing for VBM-SGAU Samara and

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

. Sutton-Brown played for Fenerbahçe since the start of the 2006–07 off-season for 5 years where she won five championships. *

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(5) : 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 *Turkish Cup (3): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 *Turkish President Cup (2): 2006–07, 2009–10 * EuroLeague Women **Quarter-Final (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 *

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**Runners-up (1): 2004–05 **Fourth (1): 2003–04 *

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**WKBL champion (1): 2003–04

International clubs

* USK Prague *

* Kumho Life Falcons * Fenerbahçe Istanbul

International career

Sutton-Brown played for the

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in the

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. She averaged 10.3 ppg and 7.3 rpg in 6 games with the team throughout the Olympics.

Philanthropy

During her playing career, Sutton-Brown had started up ''The Tammy Sutton-Brown Foundation'', a charitable organization that specializes in the needs of less fortunate women and the self-awareness of female children.

Life after basketball

Since her retirement from professional basketball, Sutton-Brown launched ''TSquared'', a marketing company that partners up professional athletes with various brands. She also became an author and is working on a series of children’s books.

References

External links

*
Unofficial Rutgers ResumePlayer Profile at ''fenerbahce.org''
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