Sancho Lyttle

Sancho Lyttle

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No. 20 – Atlanta Dream
Position	Power forward / Center
League	WNBA
Personal information
Born	(1983-09-20) September 20, 1983 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Nationality	Spanish
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
College	Clarendon College (2001–2003) Houston (2003–2005)
WNBA draft	2005 / Round: 1 / Pick: 5th overall
Selected by the Houston Comets
Playing career	2005–present
Career history
2005–2008	Houston Comets
2006–2009	CB Puig d'en Valls
2009–present	Atlanta Dream
2009–2011	CB Avenida
2011–2012	Ros Casares Valencia
2012–present	Galatasaray
Career highlights and awards
2× WNBA All-Star (2009, 2010) FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year (2013)
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals Representing Spain World Championships 2014 Turkey National team 2010 Czech Republic National team EuroBasket 2013 France National team

Sancho Lyttle (born September 20, 1983) is a Spanish professional basketball player born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Early life

Sancho Lyttle was born to Evelyn Little and Burt Cain. Members of her family spell their surname 'Lyttle' or 'Little'. Sancho has a younger brother, Xavier Little. Sancho attended St. Vincent Girls' High School where she played net ball and ran various Track and Field events. She never played basketball until prompted to do so after her move to the United States. She and three other girls from her country were requested by her Junior College and current assistant coach for the University of Houston Women's team Wade Scott who offered to teach them how to play the game of basketball.

College years

Sancho Lyttle played collegiate basketball at Clarendon College before transferring to the University of Houston from 2003–2005 where she currently holds the record for single season rebound average (2004–2005), offensive rebounds (04-05) and most rebounds in a single season (04-05). She also holds the career record for highest rebounding average.

Post-collegiate career

When the Houston Comets folded in 2008, she was selected first in the dispersal draft by the Atlanta Dream.

She played for Ibiza in Spain during the 2008–09 WNBA off-season. From 2009 to 2011, she played with CB Avenida and won the EuroLeague Women 2010–11. She currently plays for Galatasaray Medical Park and is also a member of the Spanish women's national basketball team.

She currently plays the power forward position for the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA. Throughout her career, she has scored 1,505 points, collected 1,041 rebounds, and has 200 assists, 242 steals, and 96 blocks through six seasons. She was the fifth overall draft pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft out of Houston.

In 2010 she had career highs in points and rebounds with 27 and 20, respectively.

Awards and achievements

• 2009, 2010 WNBA All-Star
• Bronze medal in 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women
• Named to the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women All-Tournament Team
• Gold medal in EuroBasket Women 2013
• FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year (2013)
• 2014—FIBA World Championship All-Star Five
• Silver medal in 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women

Notes

• First WNBA player from St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Did not play basketball until she was 17 years old
• Is one of only six players to ever record a slam dunk in a collegiate basketball game while with the University of Houston.
• Was hospitalized for a number of days in 2010 after being knocked unconscious for a little over a minute by an incidental elbow during a game. Recovered and played 13 days later.

References

Preceded by Céline Dumerc

FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year 2013

Succeeded by Alba Torrens