Angel McCoughtry

Angel McCoughtry
Information about the player
birthday	September 10, 1986 (33 years and 356 days)
place of birth	Baltimore , Maryland , United States
size	188 cm
position	Forward
college	University of Louisville
WNBA Draft	2009 , 1st pick, Atlanta Dream
Jersey number	35
Clubs as active
2009-2010	Good Angels Kosice
2010-2011	MKB Euroleasing Sopron
2011-2015	Fenerbahçe Istanbul
2015-2016	Mersin BSB
2016-2018	Dynamo Kursk
WNBA clubs as active
2009-2019	Atlanta Dream
since 2020	Las Vegas Aces
1 As of July 29, 2020

Angel McCoughtry (born September 10, 1986 in Baltimore , Maryland , United States ) is a professional basketball player. She has been under contract with the Las Vegas Aces team in the Women's National Basketball Association since 2020, and in Europe she was last active for Dynamo Kursk in Russia in the 2017/18 season .

Career

College (2005 to 2009)

McCoughtry studied at the University of Louisville from 2005 to 2009 , where she graduated with a degree in communications in 2009. While in college, McCoughtry also played for the university's women's basketball team, the Louisville Cardinals . In her freshman season, she was on the field in all 29 games of the season for the Cardinals. She finished her first season with an average of 9.2 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. For this good performance she was appointed to the BIG EAST All-Freshman Team . In her sophomore season, she experienced an explosion in performance, which made her lead the season with an average of 21.5 points and 10.3 rebounds in the internal team ranking. This season McCoughtry set several school records, for example with the 41 points scored against Eastern Illinois University . She is also only the third player from the University of Louisville to break the 1,000-point mark in her sophomore season. McCoughtry was named WBCA / Kodak All-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association after this season, along with various magazine awards . In the Big East Conference she was voted into the All-Big East First Team and Player of the Year . In the summer of 2007, she won the gold medal with the United States national team at the Pan Am Games in Brazil. She led the team with 12.6 points per game. McCoughtry finished her 2007/08 junior season with an average of 23.8 points, 8.9 rebounds and 4.1 steals per game. Angel led the internal ranking in all three categories. McCoughtry was again showered with awards this season. She was named a WBCA / State Farm All-American , and she was re-elected to the All-BIG EAST first team . Her senior season she finished with an average of 23.5 points, 9.3 rebounds and 4.4 steals per game. Probably her biggest success of her final season was reaching the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship final, but where she was beaten by the University of Connecticut Huskies .

WNBA (since 2009)

Because of her outstanding performance for the Cardinals, she was selected first overall in the 2009 WNBA Draft by the Atlanta Dream . In the first season she was on the field in all 34 games, ten of them in the starting five . She achieved an average of 12.8 points and was able to meet the expectations of the draft and was honored as Rookie of the Year after her first season .

From the 2010 season she was mostly in the starting lineup of the Dream and was able to increase her points average to over 20 points per game. The team success also came in Atlanta. In 2010, 2011 and 2013 she played a major role in making the WNBA finals three times. However, these final series were all lost and the Dream could not win a single one of the nine finals.

In the WNBA, McCoughtry was the player with the highest points average in the league in the 2012 and 2013 seasons. It is noteworthy that she achieved her personal highest point average in the 2011 season as second behind Diana Taurasi . In the 2017 season she did not play a game in the WNBA to recover physically. In February 2018, McCoughtry announced that she would be back on the pitch for the Dream in the 2018 season . McCoughtry then had a large part in the fact that the Dream reached the playoffs again in the 2018 season. As the second best team in the league, the team from Atlanta automatically reached the semi-finals due to the WNBA playoff system. Since McCoughtry had injured himself in the final phase of the regular season and could not be on the field in the playoffs, the Dream failed without McCoughtry with 2: 3 wins at the Washington Mystics . In 2019 , she was only briefly on the pitch for her team in the last game of the season due to an injury. For the 2020 season McCoughtry moved to the Las Vegas Aces .

Europe

During the WNBA break, Angel McCoughtry plays like many other WNBA players in Europe. She was on the field for teams from Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey and Russia. Most recently she played for the Russian team of Dynamo Kursk in the 2017/18 season .

National team

McCoughtry also plays successfully with the United States women's national basketball team . She achieved her first major success at the 2010 Women's Basketball World Cup when she won the title with the US team. This title win could be repeated at the 2014 World Cup . McCoughtry was also on the team for the US national team's Olympic victories in London in 2012 and in Rio in 2016 .

Private

McCoughtry lives openly gay in the United States.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NN: Angel McCoughtry portrait. On: Louisville Cardinals website; Syracuse, NY, 2009-2017. Retrieved July 29, 2017 (in English).
2. ^ NN: Prospect Search: Angel McCoughtry. ( Memento of the original of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: Los Angeles Sparks website; Los Angeles 2009-2017. Retrieved July 29, 2017 (in English). 
3. ↑ wnba.com/draft2009/, Angel McCoughtry, Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver Selected as Top Picks in the 2009 WNBA Draft Presented by adidas
4. ^ Trish Bendix: Morning Brew - WNBA star Angel McCoughtry comes out On: After Ellen website; April 3, 2015. Accessed July 29, 2017 (in English).

Web links

• WNBA player profile
• Statistics about the player on basketball-reference.com (engl.)
• FIBA overview of participation in international tournaments
• FIBA Europe overview of participation in European tournaments