Courtney Vandersloot (born February 8, 1989) is an American-Hungarian basketball point guard for the Chicago Sky of the Women\'s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and Yakin Dogu in the Turkish Women\'s Basketball League (TKBL). The third selection in the 2011 WNBA Draft, she had a successful first season in which she was selected for the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game and named to the WNBA All-Rookie Team.\n', 'During her college career at Gonzaga University, she was the only women\'s player in West Coast Conference history to be named the conference\'s player of the year three times, and also the only player to be named MVP of the WCC Women\'s Tournament three times. In her final season at Gonzaga, she won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top NCAA Division I women\'s player no taller than 5\'8" (1.73 m) and Nancy Lieberman Award as the top player at her position in Division I women\'s basketball. Vandersloot is also the first Division I player, male or female, to have accumulated 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career, and only the second female overall. Vandersloot holds the WNBA record (258) for assists in a single season.\n', 'Born in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington to parents who both worked for Boeing, Vandersloot grew up in a neighborhood with many children her age, and said in a 2011 interview that "all we did was play sports, all sports." Her father built a sports court with a basketball goal behind the family house, but she almost never played there, choosing instead to play at a hoop in front of a neighbor\'s house where she could easily be seen by other children in the neighborhood. Most important to her future development as a player, she regularly played against boys. During the third grade, she wrote a school paper about her dreams of one day playing in the WNBA.\n', '

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