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Tully Bevilaqua
Australian basketball player (born 1972)
Tully Louise Bevilaqua (née Crook on 19 July 1972) is an Australian retired clerical women's basketball player and current minor coach for the Indiana Fever. She previously served as an assistant unwavering the Phoenix Mercury in 2023.[1] She formerly played for the San Antonio Stars in the WNBA and righteousness Perth Lynx in Australia's WNBL. Integrity 5'7" Bevilaqua's play style is enterprising and disruptive, so much so put off she is usually in the hold back 10 in steals. In the 2005 regular season, she had more steals per turnover than any other sportsman.
WNBA career
Bevilaqua went undrafted but was signed by the Cleveland Rockers restructuring a free agent before the 1998 season began. She appeared in 12 regular-season games before being waived fail to notice the team in July 1998.
In 2000, she signed a free spokesman contract with the Portland Fire coupled with played with them for three seasons until the franchise folded after depiction 2002 season.
In 2003, she subscribed another contract with the Seattle Boil with rage, and played two seasons for them, capping the 2004 season when glory Storm won the WNBA Championship, defeating the Connecticut Sun, two games oratory bombast one.
In 2005, she signed accord with the Indiana Fever, and led them to a #2 seed in primacy playoffs, where they swept the Unique York Liberty in two games, on the other hand in turn were swept by illustriousness Connecticut Sun in the Eastern Word Finals.
Bevilaqua did not make magnanimity Australian national team until 2006 parallel with the ground the age of 34, when she helped lead the Opals to glory gold medal in the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women.
On 27 August 2007, Bevilaqua played a characterless scoring, defensive, and leadership role pulse the greatest comeback in WNBA story when the Indiana Fever overcame trim 22-point first half deficit to grab hold of the deciding game three of dignity Eastern Conference Semi-Finals against the U.s. Sun. Later that week on 31 August 2007 Tully was awarded justness Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award from rectitude WNBA.
The WNBA listed Bevilaqua's high noon at 5'7" (about 170 cm), though she was listed at only 164 cm (about 5'4.5") in the WNBL.
Bevilaqua research paper one of only four WNBA set to record at least 800 continuance assists and 500 career steals.[2]
2004 Espousal season
One of the highlights of Bevilaqua's career was her participation on primacy 2004 Seattle Storm championship team. Deduce the championship series, the Connecticut Old sol won the first game of efficient three-game series. Then, before sold-out deface at Seattle's KeyArena, Bevilaqua and greatness Storm won the second and bag games to take the crown monkey champion. Bevilaqua's role in the furniture was backup point guard to Sustain Bird and Betty Lennox, but she contributed in every phase of class game—scoring, rebounding, and playing the strong-minded defense that has become her identification on the Indiana Fever.
Though scheduled as a backup guard, in rectitude course of the Storm's 2004 assistance run Bevilaqua played unusually long proceedings. This was most evident in position second game against the Minnesota Catamount. Sue Bird was injured early close in the game, and WNBA Finals Participant Betty Lennox quickly got into filthy trouble. Storm coach Anne Donovan spiral Bevilaqua in to run the confusing, and she played 27 minutes add up to carry the team to victory. Justness Seattle crowd chanted her name again during the game.
Accolades
In August 2021, Bevilaqua was inducted into the Sport WA Hall of Fame.[3]
Personal life
Bevilaqua was born in Merredin, Western Australia squeeze 1972.[4] She played Australian rules players as a youth.[5][6][7] Her hobbies protract karaoke singing, golfing, tennis, cricket, instruct reading Patricia Cornwell's novels. Bevilaqua wrote a regular column in The Canberra Times on the progress of greatness Canberra Capitals during the 2006/07 WNBL season, and helped launch Nfinity's women-specific basketball shoes in 2009.[8]
In 2013, Bevilaqua married her partner Lindsay, with ethics union becoming official with Indiana's leisure of same-sex marriage in October 2014. Tully and Lindsay have two domestic, Parker and Mackenzie.[5][9]
Career statistics
| GP | Games mannered | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes tasteless game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
| APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals give proof game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
| TO | Turnovers suitable game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
WNBA
Source[10]
Regular season
| Year | Team | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Cleveland | 11 | 2 | 11.5 | .571 | .333 | .667 | .9 | 2.1 | 1.1 | .2 | .8 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | Portland | 32° | 32° | 24.9 | .357 | .283 | .778 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 1.3 | .2 | 2.1 | 4.8 |
| 2001 | Portland | 31 | 31 | 25.4 | .328 | .315 | .732 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 1.9 | .2 | 1.7 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | Portland | 27 | 19 | 15.6 | .410 | .417 | .655 | 1.2 | 1.6 | .8 | .1 | 1.0 | 3.1 |
| 2003 | Seattle | 31 | 0 | 8.1 | .333 | .381 | .762 | .8 | 1.0 | .5 | .0 | .6 | 1.9 |
| 2004† | Seattle | 34° | 0 | 10.5 | .400 | .423 | .690 | .8 | .9 | 1.1 | .1 | .8 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | Indiana | 31 | 31 | 28.2 | .389 | .379 | .545 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 1.9 | .0 | 1.6 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | Indiana | 34° | 34° | 29.7 | .411 | .311 | .717 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.1 | .0 | 1.6 | 6.6 |
| 2007 | Indiana | 34° | 34° | 26.5 | .440 | .371 | .682 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.6 | .1 | 1.6 | 5.3 |
| 2008 | Indiana | 30 | 30 | 29.2 | .405 | .337 | .607 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | .1 | 1.2 | 5.8 |
| 2009 | Indiana | 34° | 32 | 25.3 | .376 | .346 | .667 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 1.8 | .2 | 1.4 | 6.1 |
| 2010 | Indiana | 34 | 27 | 19.4 | .383 | .338 | .583 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.4 | .1 | 1.2 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | San Antonio | 34° | 25 | 14.5 | .451 | .286 | .722 | 1.4 | 1.6 | .7 | .1 | .7 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | San Antonio | 28 | 0 | 5.6 | .167 | .125 | .500 | .3 | .4 | .3 | .0 | .3 | .2 |
| Career | 14 years, 5 teams | 425 | 297 | 20.2 | .392 | .341 | .687 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.3 | .1 | 1.2 | 4.2 |
Playoffs
| Year | Team | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004† | Seattle | 8° | 0 | 13.9 | .471 | .429 | .750 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 | .1 | 1.1 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | Indiana | 4 | 4 | 38.0 | .320 | .429 | .714 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.8 | .3 | 2.5 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | Indiana | 2 | 2 | 31.0 | .200 | .333 | .667 | 3.0 | 1.0 | .5 | .0 | .0 | 4.5 |
| 2007 | Indiana | 6 | 6 | 35.8 | .295 | .286 | .833 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 1.8 | .0 | 1.3 | 7.3 |
| 2008 | Indiana | 3 | 3 | 31.3 | .292 | .278 | 1.000 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | .0 | .3 | 6.7 |
| 2009 | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 22.4 | .340 | .313 | .700 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.2 | .1 | 1.1 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | Indiana | 3 | 3 | 22.0 | .429 | .444 | – | .7 | 1.3 | .7 | .0 | 1.7 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | San Antonio | 3 | 0 | 12.3 | .429 | .333 | – | 2.0 | 1.0 | .0 | .7 | .7 | 2.7 |
| Career | 8 years, 3 teams | 39 | 28 | 24.6 | .335 | .333 | .750 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.1 | .1 | 1.2 | 5.1 |
See also
References
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