Coretta Brown

Position:
Guard
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Statesboro, Ga.

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Selected by San Antonio with the 11th pick of the 2003 WNBA Draft ... On May 1, traded to the Indiana Fever as part of a four-player deal ... Holds UNC’s career record for three-pointers with 251, third in ACC history ... Her career three-point percentage of .380 is the best in school history and ranks 12th in ACC history ... Ranks third in school history and 12th in ACC history with 517 career assists

2002-03 Season Notes: Named to the 2003 All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team, earning that honor for the second year in a row ... Also named to the ACC All-Tournament first team for the second consecutive year ... One of 20 finalists for the Naismith Player of the Year Award ... A second-team All-America selection by the Senior CLASS Award and one of 10 finalists for the award, given to the nation’s top senior player ... Honorable mention All-America by the Associated Press ... One of 12 finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, given to the nation’s best point guard ... Two-time ACC Player of the Week ... Named to the all-tournament team at the Rainbow Wahine Classic ... Preseason All-ACC selection ... Recipient of team awards for Best All-Around and Best Offense ... Led Carolina in scoring with 14.5 points per game ... Averaged 15.2 points in ACC games, fifth in the league ... Scored in double figures in 27 of 34 games and scored 20 or more points seven times ... Led the ACC in three-pointers per game (2.6) and three-point percentage (.395) ... Her average of 2.6 threes per game ranked 30th in the nation and her total of 88 three-pointers was the 13th-highest ... Led UNC and ranked third in the ACC in assists (4.3 per game) ... Shot 83.3 percent from the foul line, the second-best percentage in school history ... Scored a then-season-high 23 points and played all 40 minutes in the win at Georgia Tech on Jan. 2 ... On Jan. 6, named ACC Player of the Week for the first time in her career. In UNC’s three wins of the previous week, she averaged 16.3 points. Against ACC teams (Georgia Tech and NC State) she scored 20.0 points per game and shot 65 percent from the field ... At FSU on Jan. 12, she equalled her career high with 28 points while playing in front of a crowd of 30 or so friends and family members who had chartered a bus down from her hometown of Statesboro, Ga. ... At Maryland on Jan. 27, banked in a jumper with no time remaining to give UNC an 83-82 win. The shot was No. 10 on ESPN SportsCenter’s Plays of the Day ... Did not commit a turnover in the Western Michigan or Maryland games ... Against Georgia Tech on Feb. 2, led the team with 17 points, shooting 4-for-6 from the field and 6-for-6 from the free throw line, with all of her foul shots coming in the final 3:37 of play ... At NC State on Feb. 7, tied for the team lead in scoring with 14 points including a three-pointer with 2:47 to play that cut the NC State lead from seven to four ... At Wake Forest on Feb. 9, led UNC with 22 points and hit a three-pointer with 6:44 remaining in the first half to reach the 1,500-point mark for her career ... Against Florida State on Feb. 13, scored 22 for the second consecutive game and was 7-for-12 from the field, 4-for-7 from three-point range and 4-for-5 from the line) ... Against Clemson on Feb. 16, led UNC in scoring with 19 points, including four three-pointers ... Named ACC Player of the Week on Feb. 17 (she shared the honor with Maryland’s Renneika Razor) after averaging 20.5 points in a pair of conference wins ... Did not start against Coastal Carolina, snapping a streak if 90 consecutive starts ... Against Maryland on Feb. 27, in her final appearance at Carmichael Auditorium, led UNC in scoring with 17 points ... Against Clemson in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals, scored 20 points and moved into 12th place on UNC’s career scoring list with 1,622 points. With four three-pointers, she moved into first place on UNC’s career chart with a total of 238 and also grabbed a season-high seven rebounds ... Against Virginia in the ACC Tournament semifinals, played just 25 minutes and sat out much of the second half after picking up her fourth foul with 16:25 to play ... Against Duke in the ACC Tournament Championship, led UNC with 18 points on 6-for-18 shooting ... For the ACC Tournament, averaged 18.3 points per game, second-highest in the league, and 6.3 rebounds ... Led UNC with 20 points in the first-round NCAA Tournament win over Austin Peay ... Was six-for-six from the foul line against Austin Peay and hit the last 13 free throws of her career, 29 of the last 33

2001-02 Season Notes: Named to the All-ACC and All-ACC Tournament first teams ... Also was a preseason All-ACC selection ... With 99 three-pointers, set school and Atlantic Coast Conference single-season records ... Named to the Winthrop Lady Eagle Classic All-Tournament team ... Ranked among the ACC leaders in three-pointers made (first), three-point percentage (first), scoring (third), assist-turnover ration (fifth), field goal percentage (ninth) and assists (ninth) ... The only player to start every game during the season ... Hit a career-high six three-pointers and totaled a season-best 26 points to lead UNC to a win at Clemson on Jan. 13 ... Was 8-for-11 from the field, 4-for-6 from three-point range, for 22 points in a 79-64 win over Virginia on Jan. 27 ... Against Villanova, registered the third double-double of her career with 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds ... Scored 23 points (15 in the first half), including four three-pointers, and added seven assists against NC State on Feb. 10 ... Tied her career high with six three-pointers against Clemson on Feb. 14 and led the team with 18 points ... Hit for a career-high 28 points on 9-for-16 shooting in the first-round NCAA game against Harvard ... Scored 20 or more points 11 times, the third-highest total in the ACC

2000-01 Season Notes: Started all 29 games of her sophomore season at point guard and led the team in minutes played, averaging 38.7 per game ... Earned second-team All-ACC honors ... Led the ACC in assists (6.7 per game) and assist-turnover ratio (1.71) ... Ranked third in the ACC in three-point percentage (37.0) and fourth in the ACC in three-pointers per game (1.8) ... Scoring average of 15.9 points per game ranked second on the team and fifth in the conference ... Total of 193 assists for the year ranks second on UNC's single-season list ... Set a school single-game record with 16 assists against North Carolina A&T on Nov. 21. The previous record was 15, set by Nikki Teasley against Georgia Tech in 1999 ... Scored 20 or more points eight times, including a career-high 27 on two occasions ... Scored in double-digits in all but four games ... Twice flirted with a triple-double, totaling 23 points, nine rebounds and nine assists against Syracuse and 17 points, eight rebounds and 16 assists against North Carolina A&T ... Tallied three double-doubles, two on double-figure points and assists (17 points, 16 assists vs. N.C. A&T; 11 points, 11 assists vs. Virginia on Feb. 11) and one with double-figure points and rebounds (17 points, 10 rebounds vs. Winthrop) ... Against NC State on Jan. 14, led the team to an overtime victory with 22 points, including the final five points of regulation and six points in the extra period ... Played the entirety of nine games, including all 50 minutes in a double-overtime win over Clemson ... Also played 40 minutes in an overtime loss to Duke

1999-2000 Season Notes: Started 10 games as a freshman, including four ACC contests ... One of three UNC players to appear in all 33 games ... Scored a career-high 13 points in 16 minutes of play against Notre Dame on Dec. 4 ... Was 5-for-6 from the field in that game, 2-for-2 from three-point range ... Averaged 16.5 minutes per game for the season, but played 30 or more minutes in five games ... Was 5-for-7 from the field in the first two ACC Tournament games ... Averaged 4.1 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists for the season

At Southeast Bulloch High: Coached by Milton Williams ... Georgia's Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior, when she averaged 24.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists ... Over her career, averaged 24.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.7 assists ...A three-time All-State selection ... Played in the WBCA High School All-America Game on April 3, 1999, in Hartford, Conn. ... Selected her team's MVP all four years ... Two-time Street & Smith's All-America selection ... Named Northland Cable Player of the Decade ... Region champion in the high jump ... Voted homecoming queen

Personal: Born Coretta Renay Brown on Oct. 21, 1980, in Statesboro, Ga. ... The daughter of Clinton and Mary Alice Brown ... Has three older sisters: Clintina, Cassandra and Kalesha ... Major is African-American studies and minor is English