2005 WNBA draft

2005 WNBA draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date(s)	April 16, 2005
Location	Secaucus, New Jersey
Network(s)	ESPN2
Overview
League	WNBA
First selection	Janel McCarville Charlotte Sting
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The WNBA Draft is an annual draft held by the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) through which WNBA teams can select new players from a talent pool of college and professional women's basketball players. The 2005 edition was the ninth in the WNBA's history.

2005 WNBA draft

• On April 16, 2005, the WNBA draft took place at the NBA Entertainment Studios in Secaucus, New Jersey.
• The first round of the draft was televised on ESPN2.

Key

!	Denotes player who has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
^	Denotes player who has been inducted to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
^+	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game
^#	Denotes player who never played in the WNBA regular season or playoffs
Bold	Denotes player who won Rookie of the Year

Draft

Round 1

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Janel McCarville	C	United States	Charlotte Sting	Minnesota
2	Tan White	G	United States	Indiana Fever	Mississippi State
3	Sandora Irvin	F	United States	Phoenix Mercury	TCU
4	Kendra Wecker	F	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Kansas State
5	Sancho Lyttle ^+	C	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Houston Comets	Houston
6	Temeka Johnson	G	United States	Washington Mystics	LSU
7	Kara Braxton ^+	F	United States	Detroit Shock	Georgia
8	Katie Feenstra (traded to San Antonio)	C	United States	Connecticut Sun	Liberty
9	Kristin Haynie[a]	G	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	Michigan State
10	Loree Moore	G	United States	New York Liberty	Tennessee
11	Kristen Mann	F	United States	Minnesota Lynx	UC Santa Barbara
12	Tanisha Wright	G	United States	Seattle Storm	Penn State
13	Dionnah Jackson ^#	F	United States	Detroit Shock (from Los Angeles via Washington)	Oklahoma

1. Haynie became the first person to play in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship game (with Michigan State) and the WNBA Finals (with the Sacramento Monarchs) in the same calendar year.^{[citation needed]}

Round 2

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
14	Shyra Ely	F	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Tennessee
15	Roneeka Hodges	G	United States	Houston Comets	Florida State
16	Yolanda Paige	G	United States	Indiana Fever	West Virginia
17	Jacqueline Batteast	F	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Charlotte)	Notre Dame
18	Angelina Williams	F	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Illinois
19	Erica Taylor ^#	G	United States	Washington Mystics	Louisiana Tech
20	Nikita Bell ^#	F/G	United States	Detroit Shock	North Carolina
21	Erin Phillips	G	Australia	Connecticut Sun	Adelaide Lightning (Australia)
22	Chelsea Newton	G	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	Rutgers
23	Tabitha Pool ^#	F	United States	New York Liberty	Michigan
24	Jessica Moore	C	United States	Charlotte Sting	Connecticut
25	Ashley Battle	F	United States	Seattle Storm	Connecticut
26	DeeDee Wheeler ^#	G	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Arizona

Round 3

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
27	Cathrine Kraayeveld	F	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Oregon
28	Jenni Dant ^#	G	United States	Houston Comets	DePaul
29	Ashley Earley ^#	G/F	United States	Indiana Fever	Vanderbilt
30	Anne O'Neil ^#	G	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	Iowa State
31	Jamie Carey	G	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Texas
32	Tashia Morehead ^#	F	United States	Washington Mystics	Florida
33	Jenni Lingor ^#	G	United States	Detroit Shock	Southwest Missouri State
34	Megan Mahoney	F	United States	Connecticut Sun	Kansas State
35	Cisti Greenwalt	C	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	Texas Tech
36	Rebecca Richman ^#	C	United States	New York Liberty	Rutgers
37	Monique Bivins ^#	G	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Alabama
38	Steffanie Blackmon ^#	F	United States	Seattle Storm	Baylor
39	Heather Schreiber ^#	F	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Texas

See also

• List of first overall WNBA draft picks

References

• "All-Time WNBA draft history". WNBA. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2008.