Itoro Umoh-Coleman
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February 21, 1977 Washington, D.C. |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 140 lb (64 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Hephzibah (Hephzibah, Georgia) | ||||||||||||
| College | Clemson (1995–1999) | ||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 1999 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2003–2003 | ||||||||||||
| Position | Guard | ||||||||||||
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| 2003 | Houston Comets | ||||||||||||
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Itoro Umoh-Coleman (born Itoro Umoh on February 21, 1977) is an American athlete and former WNBA basketball player. She played for the Clemson Tigers in college and served as head basketball coach for that team. In 2002, Umoh-Coleman was selected for the Atlantic Coast Conference '50-year all-star women's basketball team,' as well as '25th Anniversary Tournament' team.
Born in Washington, D.C., Umoh-Coleman grew up in Hephzibah, Georgia. She attended Hephzibah High School and played for the Lady Rebels under coach Wendell Lofton. She graduated in 1995.
During her sports playing career at Clemson University from 1995–1999, Umoh led the Lady Clemson Tigers to two ACC Championships. While at Clemson, she played both point guard and shooting guard. During her 1995-1996 freshman year at Clemson, in which the university won the ACC Championship, Umoh led the team in assists and steals. At Clemson, she was a 3-time All-ACC player.
She scored her 900th career point in 1998 during a Clemson-Wake Forest game in which coach Jim Davis won his 100th game.
During her 1999 senior ACC tournament, Umoh was awarded the MVP award in a rare unanimous vote. That same year, she was an honorable mention for the All-American team and Defensive All-American.
Umoh-Coleman represented the United States during the 1999 Pan American Games, with the team winning a bronze medal.
She graduated with a degree in communications from Clemson in 2000. She was in the movie Jawanna Man, starring Vivica A. Fox.
In 1999 Umoh was in the preseason camps of the Minnesota Lynx and Washington Mystics but did not make either team. In 2002, after attending WNBA league camp tryouts, she was assigned to the Indiana Fever training camp, but failed to make the team.
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