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Sandy Brondello

Sandy Brondello
Sandy Brondello at 2015 All-Star Game cropped.png
Phoenix Mercury
Position Head coach
League WNBA
Personal information
Born (1968-08-20) 20 August 1968 (age 48)
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Nationality Australian
Career information
WNBA draft 1998 / Round: 4 / Pick: 34th overall
Selected by the Detroit Shock
Playing career 1992–2004
Position Shooting guard
Number 6
Coaching career 2005–present
Career history
As player:
19981999 Detroit Shock
20012002 Miami Sol
2003 Seattle Storm
As coach:
20052009 San Antonio Silver Stars (assistant)
2010 San Antonio Silver Stars
20112013 Los Angeles Sparks (assistant)
2014–present Phoenix Mercury
Career highlights and awards

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Stats at WNBA.com

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Sandra Anne "Sandy" Brondello (born 20 August 1968) is an Australian women's basketball coach, and the current coach of the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA. Brondello played in Australia, Germany and the WNBA before retiring to become a coach. The 1.70 m (5'7") Brondello is one of Australia's all-time best shooting guards. She played on Australia's "Opals" national team at four Summer Olympics, and won three medals (one bronze, two silvers). She attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 1986-1987, and was inducted to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.

Brondello grew up in Mackay, Queensland, where her parents had a sugar cane farm. At the age of 9, she started to play basketball in a grass court her father built in the backyard Brondello's career began in Australia's Women's National Basketball League, where she was named the Australian Basketball Player of the Year in 1992. Brondello played for 10 seasons in the WNBL, reaching the playoffs on three occasions and being named Most Valuable Player in 1995 as a member of the Brisbane Blazers. She also played between 1992 and 2002 in Germany for BTV Wuppertal, winning ten national championships and the 1995–96 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup.

Brondello started her WNBA career in 1998 by being selected in the fourth round (34th overall) by the newly formed Detroit Shock, becoming an All-Star in the first WNBA All-Star Game in 1999. She was selected by the Indiana Fever in late 1999's expansion draft, but never played a game for them, being traded to the Miami Sol along with a first-round pick for Stephanie McCarty. After sitting out of the 2002 season due to a foot injury playing for Wuppertal during the WNBA offseason, Brondello signed as a free agent with the Seattle Storm in 2003, joining fellow Australians Lauren Jackson and Tully Bevilaqua. Brondello was one of the top three-point shooters in league history, her .410 percentage ranking fourth all-time.


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