![]() Quinn coaching the Seattle Storm, June 2023 | |
Seattle Storm | |
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Position | Head coach |
League | WNBA |
Personal information | |
Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | January 3, 1985
Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Listed weight | 178 lb (81 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Bishop Montgomery (Torrance, California) |
College | UCLA (2003–2007) |
WNBA draft | 2007: 1st round, 4th overall pick |
Selected by the Minnesota Lynx | |
Playing career | 2007–2018 |
Position | Point guard / shooting guard |
Number | 45 |
Coaching career | 2019–present |
Career history | |
As player: | |
2007–2008 | Minnesota Lynx |
2009–2011 | Los Angeles Sparks |
2012 | Washington Mystics |
2013–2014 | Seattle Storm |
2015–2016 | Phoenix Mercury |
2016–2018 | Seattle Storm |
As coach: | |
2019 | Seattle Storm (assistant) |
2020–2021 | Seattle Storm (associate HC) |
2021–present | Seattle Storm |
Career highlights and awards | |
As player:
As associate head coach: As head coach | |
Stats at WNBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Noelle Quinn (born January 3, 1985) is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).[1] Quinn played in the WNBA for Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks, Washington Mystics, Phoenix Mercury, and the Storm. She won the WNBA Championship with the Storm in 2018. She also played for Botaş SK in the Turkish Women's Basketball League.[2]
High school
[edit]Born in Los Angeles, California, Quinn played for Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance, California, where she was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2003 WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored eleven points.[3] She led the Lady Knights to four California state championships, three regional championships, and three division championships.[4]
College career
[edit]Quinn attended UCLA and graduated in 2007. She was the first Bruin — men's or women's player — to total 1,700 points, 700 rebounds, and 400 assists in her collegiate career.[5] Quinn was twice named honorable mention All-American, earned first-team All-Pac-10 player honors three times, and was twice named a Pac-10 All-Tournament honoree.[5] She was named Pac-10 Player of the Week eight times (a conference record).[5] In 2006, she led the team to its first Pac-10 Tournament title and recorded 22 points in the championship game.[5]
Quinn was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame in 2020.[5]
College statistics
[edit]Source[6]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2003–04 | UCLA | 27 | 430 | 42.3 | 26.1 | 71.6 | 7.7 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 15.9 |
2004–05 | UCLA | 16 | 270 | 41.7 | 30.0 | 75.0 | 7.1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 16.9 |
2005–06 | UCLA | 32 | 580 | 47.4 | 37.3 | 74.4 | 8.2 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 18.1 |
2006–07 | UCLA | 32 | 549 | 40.8 | 38.1 | 80.5 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 17.2 |
Career | UCLA | 107 | 1829 | 43.2 | 33.8 | 75.6 | 7.4 | 4.2 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 17.1 |
Professional career
[edit]Quinn was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx in the first round of the 2007 WNBA draft.[7] As a rookie she got off to a slow start before stepping into the point guard role when Lindsey Harding was injured in July, 2007. Quinn finished strong, setting a franchise record with 14 assists on August 19, the season finale. She finished the season averaging 2.8 points and 4.4 assists per game. Her 148 assists for the 2007 season, tied a club record that was held by Teresa Edwards.
During a 12-year WNBA career, Quinn played for the Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks, Washington Mystics, Phoenix Mercury, and Seattle Storm. She was a 6'0" combo guard who averaged 4.8 points per game and 2.3 assists per game for her career.[7] With the Storm, she won the 2018 WNBA Championship.[8]
WNBA career statistics
[edit]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 |
† | Denotes seasons in which Quinn won a WNBA championship |
Regular season
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | Minnesota | 34 | 19 | 19.7 | .298 | .184 | .625 | 2.6 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 2.8 |
2008 | Minnesota | 32 | 25 | 16.7 | .398 | .313 | .667 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 3.6 |
2009 | Los Angeles | 34 | 9 | 27.3 | .471 | .312 | .811 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 8.4 |
2010 | Los Angeles | 34 | 34 | 32.5 | .443 | .402 | .776 | 4.0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 10.2 |
2011 | Los Angeles | 33 | 23 | 20.6 | .390 | .397 | .818 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 5.1 |
2012 | Washington | 30 | 18 | 22.2 | .396 | .403 | .731 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 6.5 |
2013 | Seattle | 34 | 15 | 25.6 | .354 | .232 | .842 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
2014 | Seattle | 32 | 5 | 15.1 | .380 | .258 | .880 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 3.8 |
2015 | Phoenix | 34 | 1 | 18.6 | .422 | .324 | .792 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 4.1 |
2016 | Phoenix | 13 | 0 | 9.9 | .241 | .100 | .857 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.6 |
2016 | Seattle | 20 | 0 | 13.9 | .288 | .083 | 1.000 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.8 |
2017 | Seattle | 32 | 4 | 15.8 | .403 | .385 | .952 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.7 |
2018† | Seattle | 20 | 1 | 9.1 | .302 | .235 | .000 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
Career | 12 years, 5 teams | 382 | 154 | 20.1 | .396 | .322 | .797 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 4.8 |
Playoffs
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Los Angeles | 6 | 4 | 26.3 | .263 | .100 | 1.000 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 4.8 |
2010 | Los Angeles | 2 | 2 | 34.0 | .368 | .500 | 1.000 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 9.5 |
2013 | Seattle | 2 | 0 | 26.5 | .429 | .333 | .000 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 3.5 |
2015 | Phoenix | 4 | 0 | 20.3 | .778 | 1.000 | .000 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 4.3 |
2016 | Seattle | 1 | 0 | 11.0 | .333 | .000 | .000 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
2017 | Seattle | 1 | 0 | 12.0 | 1.000 | .000 | .000 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
2018† | Seattle | 2 | 0 | 4.0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Career | 7 years, 3 teams | 18 | 6 | 21.7 | .372 | .348 | 1.000 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 4.2 |
International career
[edit]Quinn became a naturalized Bulgarian citizen in 2007 and played with the Bulgaria women's national basketball team.[9]
Coaching career
[edit]Beginning in 2016, Quinn coached the girls basketball team at her high school alma mater, Bishop Montgomery High School, for four seasons. In her first season, the Lady Knights won a California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section championship.[4]
In February 2019, after retiring from the WNBA, Quinn was hired as an assistant coach by her last team, the Seattle Storm.[10]
For the 2020 season, Storm head coach Dan Hughes was forced to sit out the season for medical reasons. Gary Kloppenburg became head coach for the season, and Quinn was promoted to associate head coach, where she concentrated on the offense, while Kloppenburg focused on the defense.[11] Seattle won the 2020 WNBA championship.
On May 30, 2021, Quinn was named Storm head coach upon Hughes' retirement from the WNBA.[12]
Coaching record
[edit]WNBA
[edit]Regular season | G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win–loss % |
Playoffs | PG | Playoff games | PW | Playoff wins | PL | Playoff losses | PW–L % | Playoff win–loss % |
Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Finish | PG | PW | PL | PW–L% | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SEA | 2021 | 26 | 16 | 10 | .615 | 3rd in West | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | Lost in Second round |
SEA | 2022 | 36 | 22 | 14 | .611 | 2nd in West | 6 | 3 | 3 | .500 | Lost in Conf. Semi-Finals |
SEA | 2023 | 40 | 11 | 29 | .275 | 5th in West | – | – | – | – | Missed Playoffs |
Career | 102 | 49 | 53 | .480 | 7 | 3 | 4 | .429 |
Personal
[edit]On September 23, 2009, Quinn returned to her college basketball court at Pauley Pavilion to play game one of the WNBA Conference finals between Phoenix Mercury and her Los Angeles Sparks, which the Sparks lost 94–103.[13]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Dan Hughes To Miss 2020 Storm Season In Florida". Seattle Storm. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ "Noelle Quinn Botaş'ta(Turkish)". Haberler.com.
- ^ "WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved 29 Jun 2014.
- ^ a b David Yapkowitz. "Seattle Storm's Noelle Quinn talks to High Post Hoops about coaching transition". HighPostHoops.com.
- ^ a b c d e "Hall of Fame: Noelle Quinn". UCLA. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "Women's Basketball Player stats". NCAA. Retrieved 25 Sep 2015.
- ^ a b "Noelle Quinn". wnba.com.
- ^ "Noelle Quinn, a legend at Bishop Montgomery and WNBA". Los Angeles Times. December 16, 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ Allen, Percy (May 31, 2021). "Noelle Quinn knows the history, and the honor, to be a Black female head coach taking over the Storm". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Percy Allen. "Veteran Storm guard Noelle Quinn calls it quits and joins Seattle's coaching staff". SeattleTimes.com.
- ^ Percy Allen. "As the Storm dominates the WNBA, coach Dan Hughes can only watch from afar". SeattleTimes.com.
- ^ "Dan Hughes announces retirement from the WNBA".
- ^ Bruin Alumnae Return To Pauley Pavilion For LA Sparks Playoff Game Wednesday Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, UCLABruins.com, September 22, 2009