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USA women's Olympic basketball team
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Guard/forward Seimone Augustus won an Olympic gold medal with Team USA in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was named MVP of the 2011 WNBA Finals after leading the Minnesota Lynx to their first championship.
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Point guard Sue Bird already owns two Olympic gold medals, with Team USA in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008, and she's also won two WNBA championships with the Seattle Storm in 10 seasons.
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Forward Swin Cash, who was just acquired by the Chicago Sky, won an Olympic gold medal with the USA in 2004 and has won three WNBA championships, two with the Detroit Shock and one with the Seattle Storm.
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Forward Tamika Catchings won Olympic gold medals in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. The 11-year Indiana Fever veteran and four-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year was named the league's MVP in 2011.
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Center Tina Charles earned first-team All WNBA honors in her second season with the Connecticut Sun in 2011 after being named WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2010. Charles was also the college national player of the year at UConn in 2009-10.
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Center Sylvia Fowles, the 2011 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Chicago Sky, helped Team USA win the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing after graduating from LSU.
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Forward Asjha Jones, a two-time WNBA All-Star who led the Connecticut Sun to back-to-back WNBA Finals in 2004 and 2005, helped the USA win gold at the 2010 World Championships.
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Forward Angel McCoughtry helped the USA win gold at the 2010 World Championships and the Atlanta Dream reach back-to-back WNBA Finals in 2010-11. The 2009 WNBA Rookie of the Year is also two-time member of the All WNBA Defensive Team and a All WNBA first-team selection in 2011.
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Forward Maya Moore, a two-time national college player of the year and the all-time leading scorer in UConn history, helped Team USA win the 2010 World Championship. The 2011 WNBA Rookie of the Year helped the Minnesota Lynx win their first championship last year.
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Los Angeles Sparks forward and Tennessee alumna Candace Parker helped the USA win gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and followed that up by becoming the first player to earn WNBA MVP and Rookie of the Year honors in the same season.
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Guard/forward Diana Taurasi won Olympic gold medals in 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing. The 2009 MVP, five-time All-Star and seven-time All WNBA first team member helped the Phoenix Mercury win WNBA titles in 2007 and 2009.
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A member of the USA's gold-medal winning World Championship team in 2010, point guard Lindsay Whalen, a two-time All-Star, was a member of the 2011 All WNBA first team and helped the Minnesota Lynx win their first WNBA title last year.
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WOW, no Man/Woman/Beast GRINER?????????
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Stardust Wrote:WOW, no Man/Woman/Beast GRINER?????????

By NCAA rules I don't think she would be allowed to play seeing that she was still in College unless the team consisted of only collegate players....but I could be wrong on that......don't worry though, she will have her chance in the future.
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^ No, that's not accurate. 1. It's an amateur sport and there are college track athletes running with professional track athletes for the USA, 2. She will have graduated by that time, 3. Christian Laetner was the first to do this with the original Dream Team

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