Edniesha Curry

Edniesha Curry

Portland Trail Blazers
Position	Assistant coach
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	(1979-07-09) July 9, 1979
Nationality	American
Listed height	5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Listed weight	138 lb (63 kg)
Career information
High school	Palmdale (Palmdale, California)
College	Cal State Northridge (1997–1999) Oregon (2000–2002)
WNBA draft	2002: 3rd round, 41st overall pick
Selected by the Charlotte Sting
Playing career	2002–2009
Position	Point guard
Number	1, 22
Coaching career	2018–present
Career history
As player:
2003	Phoenix Mercury
2005	Los Angeles Sparks
As coach:
2015–2017	Maine (women's assistant)
2018–2021	Maine (men's assistant)
2021–present	Portland Trail Blazers (assistant)

Edniesha Nicole Curry (born July 9, 1979) is an American women's basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association.

Early life

Curry was a four-sport athlete at high school, lettering three times in basketball, three times in track, two times in tennis and once in cross country. Curry began to play basketball at her high school—Palmdale High school in Palmdale, CA. When Curry finished high school in Palmdale, she spent the first three college season. The University which Curry studied in was California State University Northridge. At the college, Curry was a two- time all-Big Sky Conference team selection from 1998 to 1999. She currently held the school's record for 3 -point baskets made (168). After that, Curry transferred from California State University Northridge to the University of Oregon in 2000 and then Curry received a Pacific Conference honourable mention in 2002. That was her first season with this team. In the first season, the average point of Curry was 9.8 points per game at Oregon and dished out 104 assists.

In 2002, Curry was drafted by the WNBA's Charlotte Sting. She was a professional basketball player and played professional basketball for the eight years in Europe, Middle East for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and Los Angeles Sparks.

Curry has three brothers, two sisters, and two daughters. Curry's Stepmother was Jenoah Curry.

Playing career

In college, Curry finished her career with Oregon. Curry began playing basketball professionally in 2002, after being drafted in the third round of the WNBA draft by Charlotte Sting. Curry played four seasons in the WNBA. During Curry's European career, she has been an athlete from 2003. She worked as an athlete in Thessaloniki Greece from 2004 to 2005 for Greek All- Star. From 2003 to 2004, she worked in Ra’ananna Israel. In Budapest Hungary, she worked for Fiba Cup Europe from 2005 to 2006. In 2007 and 2008, she worked in Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israel and then she worked in Lezno Poland. From 2008 to 2009, she went to Holon, Israel for the Israeli Cup Sem-Finalist. She played on the international tour of Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece, Israel, Hungary and Poland as well.

Coaching career

Curry was a Global Basketball Development Assistant in Adidas company in 2009 and 2010. During this period, she was in WNBA. Curry was as an International Basketball Development Coach when she was in Israel, China and Vietnam from 2012 to 2015. Curry's first job as a basketball coach was working with coach Michael Abraham with an AAU Boys and Girls Club team.

In July 2015, Curry joined the UMaine women's basketball team as a player development and assistant coach where she worked under Coach Richard Barron until May 2017. She left UMaine to work with the Assistant Coaches' Program and the Atlanta Classical Academy as Women's Athletic Program Manager. In 2018 Curry returned to UMaine to work again with Coach Barron as an assistant coach for the UMaine men's basketball team.

During 2018 when Curry returned to UMaine, "Coach Eddie" was the only woman coach for an NCAA Division I men's basketball team in the United States.

On August 2, 2021, Curry was hired by the Portland Trail Blazers to work as part of their coaching staff during the 2021–22 NBA season.

Awards

When Curry was a junior, she led the Matadors in scoring for the third straight year and the average point of Curry was 15.3 in the tournament. She established career-highs with 10 rebounds at Northern Arizona and 10 assists vs. Portland State. Curry scored 47 points in two games en route to the school's first appearance in the NCAAs. After getting the great grade, she won Big Sky Tournament MVP as a sophomore. What's more, she scored a career-high 40 points at LMU. Curry won the prize in WNBA 2003 Phoenix Mercury, WNBA 2004 Phoenix Mercury Training Camp/ Pre-Season, WNBA 2005 Indiana Fever Training Camp/ Pre-Season and WNBA 2005 Los Angeles Sparks.

In the Cal State University Northridge from 1998 to 2000, she won the Cal State Northridge's all-time leader in three-point baskets with 168. In 1998, Curry won All-Big Sky selection.In the same year, Big Sky Freshman of the Year. At the same year, Curry was picked to the Women's Basketball Journal All-Freshman team. In the next year (1999), Curry won the All-Big Sky selection again.

See also

• List of female NBA coaches