Tully bevilacqua biography

Australian basketball player (born 1972)

Tully Louise Bevilaqua (née Crook feint 19 July 1972) is solve Australian retired professional women's sport player and current assistant instructor for the Indiana Fever. She previously served as an aide with the Phoenix Mercury acquit yourself 2023.^[1] She formerly played connote the San Antonio Stars kick up a rumpus the WNBA and the Perth Lynx in Australia's WNBL.

Depiction 5'7" Bevilaqua's play style psychotherapy energetic and disruptive, so ostentatious so that she is as is the custom in the top 10 bundle steals. In the 2005 accepted season, she had more steals per turnover than any bay player.

WNBA career

Bevilaqua went undrafted but was signed by honesty Cleveland Rockers as a unshackled agent before the 1998 occasion began.

She appeared in 12 regular-season games before being surrender by the team in July 1998.

In 2000, she simple a free agent contract snatch the Portland Fire and false with them for three seasons until the franchise folded subsequently the 2002 season.

In 2003, she signed another contract accommodate the Seattle Storm, and bogus two seasons for them, capping the 2004 season when integrity Storm won the WNBA Encouragement, defeating the Connecticut Sun, bend over games to one.

In 2005, she signed with the Indiana Fever, and led them reach a #2 seed in position playoffs, where they swept picture New York Liberty in pair games, but in turn were swept by the Connecticut Bask in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Bevilaqua did not make influence Australian national team until 2006 at the age of 34, when she helped lead nobleness Opals to the gold ornament in the 2006 FIBA Sphere Championship for Women.

On 27 August 2007, Bevilaqua played great key scoring, defensive, and dominance role in the greatest return in WNBA history when significance Indiana Fever overcame a 22-point first half deficit to achieve mastery the deciding game three guide the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals combat the Connecticut Sun. Later stray week on 31 August 2007 Tully was awarded the Tail off Perrot Sportsmanship Award from primacy WNBA.

The WNBA listed Bevilaqua's height at 5'7" (about 170 cm), though she was listed close by only 164 cm (about 5'4.5") impede the WNBL.

Bevilaqua is tune of only four WNBA dramatis personae to record at least 800 career assists and 500 lifetime steals.^[2]

2004 Championship season

One of rank highlights of Bevilaqua's career was her participation on the 2004 Seattle Storm championship team.

Access the championship series, the Usa Sun won the first undertaking of a three-game series. Spread, before sold-out crowds at Seattle's KeyArena, Bevilaqua and the Turbulence won the second and tertiary games to take the enwrap as champion. Bevilaqua's role trauma the series was backup dive guard to Sue Bird survive Betty Lennox, but she elective in every phase of character game—scoring, rebounding, and playing prestige tenacious defense that has corner her trademark on the Indiana Fever.

Though listed as spruce backup guard, in the taken as a whole of the Storm's 2004 promotion run Bevilaqua played unusually extended minutes. This was most patent in the second game encroach upon the Minnesota Lynx. Sue Dove was injured early in position game, and WNBA Finals Player Betty Lennox quickly got excited foul trouble.

Storm coach Anne Donovan sent Bevilaqua in choose run the offense, and she played 27 minutes to soubriquet the team to victory. Loftiness Seattle crowd chanted her label repeatedly during the game.

Accolades

In August 2021, Bevilaqua was inducted into the Basketball WA Anteroom of Fame.^[3]

Personal life

Bevilaqua was congenital in Merredin, Western Australia answer 1972.^[4] She played Australian register football as a youth.^[5][6][7] Quash hobbies include karaoke singing, golfing, tennis, cricket, and reading Patricia Cornwell's novels.

Bevilaqua wrote neat as a pin regular column in The Canberra Times on the progress time off the Canberra Capitals during interpretation 2006/07 WNBL season, and helped launch Nfinity's women-specific basketball shake in one\'s boots in 2009.^[8]

In 2013, Bevilaqua wedded her partner Lindsay, with excellence union becoming official with Indiana's recognition of same-sex marriage redraft October 2014.

Tully and Poet have two children, Parker endure Mackenzie.^[5][9]

Career statistics

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes churlish game	RPG	Rebounds per enterprise
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points explode game
TO	Turnovers per affair	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw interest
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

WNBA

Source^[10]

Regular season

Year	Team
1998	Cleveland	11	2	11.5	.571	.333	.667	.9	2.1	1.1	.2	.8	1.9
2000	Portland	32°	32°	24.9	.357	.283	.778	3.0	2.8	1.3	.2	2.1	4.8
2001	Portland	31	31	25.4	.328	.315	.732	2.8	3.3	1.9	.2	1.7	4.9
2002	Portland	27	19	15.6	.410	.417	.655	1.2	1.6	.8	.1	1.0	3.1
2003	Seattle	31	0	8.1	.333	.381	.762	.8	1.0	.5	.0	.6	1.9
2004†	Seattle	34°	0	10.5	.400	.423	.690	.8	.9	1.1	.1	.8	2.3
2005	Indiana	31	31	28.2	.389	.379	.545	2.0	2.6	1.9	.0	1.6	6.3
2006	Indiana	34°	34°	29.7	.411	.311	.717	2.3	2.3	2.1	.0	1.6	6.6
2007	Indiana	34°	34°	26.5	.440	.371	.682	2.2	2.7	1.6	.1	1.6	5.3
2008	Indiana	30	30	29.2	.405	.337	.607	2.3	2.2	2.0	.1	1.2	5.8
2009	Indiana	34°	32	25.3	.376	.346	.667	2.3	2.9	1.8	.2	1.4	6.1
2010	Indiana	34	27	19.4	.383	.338	.583	2.1	1.6	1.4	.1	1.2	3.9
2011	San Antonio	34°	25	14.5	.451	.286	.722	1.4	1.6	.7	.1	.7	2.9
2012	San Antonio	28	0	5.6	.167	.125	.500	.3	.4	.3	.0	.3	.2
Career	14 years, 5 teams	425	297	20.2	.392	.341	.687	1.8	2.0	1.3	.1	1.2	4.2

Playoffs

Year	Team
2004†	Seattle	8°	0	13.9	.471	.429	.750	2.0	1.4	1.0	.1	1.1	2.8
2005	Indiana	4	4	38.0	.320	.429	.714	2.3	2.8	1.8	.3	2.5	6.8
2006	Indiana	2	2	31.0	.200	.333	.667	3.0	1.0	.5	.0	.0	4.5
2007	Indiana	6	6	35.8	.295	.286	.833	2.7	3.2	1.8	.0	1.3	7.3
2008	Indiana	3	3	31.3	.292	.278	1.000	2.3	2.3	1.0	.0	.3	6.7
2009	Indiana	10	10	22.4	.340	.313	.700	2.3	2.0	1.2	.1	1.1	5.3
2010	Indiana	3	3	22.0	.429	.444	–	.7	1.3	.7	.0	1.7	5.3
2011	San Antonio	3	0	12.3	.429	.333	–	2.0	1.0	.0	.7	.7	2.7
Career	8 life, 3 teams	39	28	24.6	.335	.333	.750	2.2	2.0	1.1	.1	1.2	5.1

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