DeLisha Milton-Jones

DeLisha Milton-Jones is an American former professional basketball player and college head coach, born in 1974 in Riceboro, Georgia. She played at the University of Florida, where she was a first-team All-American and Southeastern Conference Player of the Year in her senior season, and she began her professional career in 1997 in the American Basketball League. She entered the WNBA in 1999 as the fourth overall pick of the Los Angeles Sparks and played seventeen seasons for the Sparks, Washington Mystics, San Antonio Stars and New York Liberty, winning two WNBA championships in 2001 and 2002 and playing in three All-Star Games. She won Olympic gold with the United States in 2000 and 2008, and is known for an eighty-four-inch wingspan. After retiring in 2016 she coached at Pepperdine, Syracuse and Old Dominion.