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DeMya Walker

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DeMya Walker
Free agent
PositionForward
Personal information
Born (1977-11-28) November 28, 1977 (age 47)
Mount Holly, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High schoolRancocas Valley
(Mount Holly, New Jersey)
CollegeVirginia (1995–1999)
WNBA draft1999: undrafted
Playing career1999–present
Career history
2000–2002Portland Fire
2003–2009Sacramento Monarchs
2010–2011Connecticut Sun
2011Washington Mystics
2012–2013New York Liberty
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Medals
Women's Basketball
Representing the  United States
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Winnipeg Team Competition

DeMya Chakheia Walker (born November 28, 1977) is a professional basketball player from the United States.

High school

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Walker was born and grew up in Mount Holly, New Jersey, where she attended Rancocas Valley Regional High School and she set school records for career rebounds (851), rebound average per game (14.2 rpg), most rebounds in a game (29), most points in a season (675), and most career points (1,546).[1]

In her senior year, she was named to the 1995 All-American first team by Street & Smith's New Jersey High School "Female Athlete of the Year", and Parade Magazine All-America Second Team as a high school senior.

University of Virginia

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Walker attended the University of Virginia and played on the women's basketball team (known as The Cavaliers) from 1995 to 1999.

By the time she graduated, she became Virginia's all-time leader in field goal percentage, as well as 332 career blocked shots[2] which at the time was ranked 12th in the NCAA record books. She averaged 13.0 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game during her career.

Her 1,583 points ranks her ninth in school history.

She was named the "Cavalier of the Year", and was an Honorable Mention All-America selection in her senior year (1998-99 season) after leading the team in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocked shots.

She is also a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

USA Basketball

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Walker was selected to play with the USA team at the 1999 Pan American Games. The team finished with a record of 4–3, but won the bronze medal with an 85–59 victory over Brazil. Walker averaged 1.6 points per game.[3]

WNBA career

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Despite her impressive career in college, Walker was not selected by any of the WNBA teams during the 1999 WNBA draft, mainly due to the influx of former players from the just-disbanded American Basketball League (ABL), a rival professional women's league. Several of the ABL's star players were selected in that year's draft.

However, prior to the start of the 1999 WNBA season, Walker was assigned to the Minnesota Lynx for its pre-season training camp, but was cut from the team final roster shortly afterwards. Walker spent that summer playing overseas on a professional women's league team in Italy.

In 2000, she signed a free agent contract with the Portland Fire, and played with them for three seasons until the team was disbanded due to financial difficulties.

On April 24, 2003, the WNBA held a Dispersal draft, where various former players from the newly-defunct Portland Fire and Miami Sol teams were chosen by the existing WNBA teams. Walker was selected by the Sacramento Monarchs as the fifth overall pick in the 2003 WNBA Dispersal Draft.

Walker played the 2003–08 seasons with the Monarchs, and even helped the team win the 2005 WNBA Finals by defeating the Connecticut Sun, three games to one.

When the Monarchs folded prior to the 2010 WNBA season, Walker was selected by the Connecticut Sun in a dispersal draft.

Career statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career best ° League leader

WNBA

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Regular season

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2000 Portland 30 1 10.4 39.8 0.0 46.8 1.6 0.6 0.6 0.2 1.2 3.1
2001 Portland 21 0 14.1 44.0 66.7 57.5 2.8 0.5 0.3 0.6 1.7 5.4
2002 Portland 31 29 27.4 48.4 16.7 62.1 5.0 1.6 0.8 1.1 2.9 10.9
2003 Sacramento 34 21 21.8 45.9 13.3 58.0 4.4 1.4 0.7 0.7 2.0 9.0
2004 Sacramento 34 34 26.0 41.6 0.0 60.2 4.2 2.5 0.8 0.4 2.5 8.4
2005 Sacramento 22 19 27.2 53.4 100.0 64.5 5.3 2.2 1.3 0.6 3.1 14.1
2006 Sacramento 23 8 18.9 43.6 0.0 65.5 4.0 1.4 0.7 0.3 1.6 9.3
2007 Sacramento 5 5 21.0 40.5 0.0 71.4 5.0 1.2 0.6 0.6 3.0 8.8
2008 Sacramento 7 0 7.4 45.5 0.0 50.0 0.9 0.1 0.7 0.0 1.4 1.6
2009 Sacramento 34 30 24.1 47.6 0.0 72.6 4.6 1.9 0.8 0.5 2.7 8.6
2010 Connecticut 31 2 11.0 41.9 0.0 82.6 2.1 0.8 0.5 0.2 1.3 4.1
2011 Connecticut 10 0 8.0 42.1 0.0 72.7 1.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.1 2.4
Washington 20 5 20.5 39.2 0.0 73.7 4.0 1.2 0.4 0.4 1.7 6.3
2012 New York 33 8 15.9 39.4 0.0 59.3 2.8 1.0 0.5 0.5 1.9 3.0
Career 13 years, 5 teams 335 162 19.2 45.1 14.0 63.5 3.6 1.3 0.7 0.5 2.0 7.1

Playoffs

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2003 Sacramento 6 6 28.3 43.6 0.0 55.0 4.5 1.7 0.2 0.5 3.5 9.8
2004 Sacramento 6 6 28.8 55.6 0.0 64.7 3.3 2.3 1.0 1.3 3.0 11.8
2005 Sacramento 6 0 27.5 50.0 0.0 75.0 3.0 3.5 0.5 0.0 2.8 10.2
2006 Sacramento 9 9 24.4 44.1 0.0 56.5 4.1 2.6 0.7 0.6 2.2 10.6
2008 Sacramento 3 0 15.7 50.0 0.0 80.0 4.7 0.3 0.7 0.0 2.0 6.7
2012 New York 2 0 9.5 0.0 0.0 50.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0 0.5
Career 6 years, 2 teams 32 21 24.8 47.6 0.0 62.0 3.8 2.2 0.6 0.5 2.6 9.6

College

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
1995–96 Virginia 33 - - 52.2 0.0 52.1 6.3 0.6 0.9 2.1 - 7.6
1996–97 Virginia 31 - - 59.8 0.0 72.7 7.5 1.4 1.5 2.7 - 13.7
1997–98 Virginia 29 - - 55.2 14.3 63.2 8.4 1.9 2.0 3.3 - 16.3
1998–99 Virginia 29 - - 54.9 28.6 66.0 4.6 2.8 1.9 2.9 - 15.0
Career 122 - - 55.7 21.7 64.9 6.7 1.6 1.6 2.7 - 13.0
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[4]

Personal

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  • Two months after the Monarchs won the title she announced her pregnancy.
  • In April 2006, after going through an intense four days of labor, Walker gave a Caesarean section birth to her first child, a daughter named Zachara. She went on maternity leave and missed the first 11 games of the 2006 WNBA season, before returning to the Monarchs' player roster.
  • Earned her degree from Virginia in Government.
  • After playing days are over wants to be an attorney in mergers & acquisitions.

References

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  1. ^ Staff. "Monarchs' Newton and Walker have work to do", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 2005. Accessed March 1, 2011. "Walker, who is from Mount Holly, Burlington County, starred at Rancocas Valley High School in the early 1990s and then at Virginia."
  2. ^ "The Ultimate Virginia Basketball Players: A roundup of the best to ever take the floor for the Cavaliers". Virginia Magazine (Winter 2007). Retrieved December 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "Thirteenth Pan American Games -- 1999". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  4. ^ "DeMya Walker College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
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