Michelle Edwards

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michelle Edwards
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	Mar 6, 1966(1966-03-06)
Age	58
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

Michelle Edwards Biography

Michelle Edwards is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on March 6, 1966 in Boston, United States. Edwards was the leading scorer for her team in her sophomore, junior and senior years, scoring a total of 1821 points. She has the third highest scoring total among all Iowa players, and her 235 steals is also third best. She had 431 career assists, which is the second best in school history.

Edwards played with the USA team at the 1991 Pan American Games. The team finished with a record of 4–2, but managed to win the bronze medal. The USA team lost a three-point game to Brazil, then responded with wins over Argentina and Cuba, earning a spot in the medal round. The next game was a rematch against Cuba, and this time the team from Cuba won a five-point game. The USA beat Canada easily to win the bronze. Edwards averaged 4.7 points per game.

Allocated to the Cleveland Rockers in the 1997 WNBA draft, the 5’9″ guard out of the University of Iowa played for Cleveland and the Seattle Storm during her career. She also coached at Rutgers University.

Edwards played high school basketball for Cathedral High in Boston, where she would score over 2000 points in her high school career, the first girl in Massachusetts history to reach that level. Her career earned her a spot in the high school Hall of Fame

In Edward’s senior year, Iowa agreed to play in the Burger King/Orange Bowl Classic, held in Miami, Florida on 28–30 December 1987. The opening game was against Auburn, ranked among the top ten teams in the nation. Iowa won the game 73–69, which set up a game the next day against Virginia, also ranked in the top ten. The Hawkeyes beat Virginia 75–59, which set up a game the following day against Texas. The Longhorns were ranked first in the country, had Clarissa Davis, who had won national Player of the Year honors the previous year, and would go on to win National Player of the Year and Wade Trophy honors in 1989. Texas also had Beverly Williams, a Kodak Al_American. Coach Stringer was very concerned about how to convince her team that they could defeat Texas. She spent the whole night working on a pre-game speech, which would include references to a woman who swam the English Channel with no arms, and Glenn Cunningham (athlete), who set records for the mile run after he had been told that a childhood burn incident would not let him walk again. She talked about faith and a woman who was able to lift a car to save a child. She closed by pointing to the black blackboard, and declared it was green. The entire team was caught up in her passion and agreed that it really was green. After the team prayer, the team headed to the court, and defeated the number one team in the country. The following week, Iowa was ranked number one in the country 75–65.

Michelle Edwards Net Worth

Michelle Edwards is one of the richest Basketball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michelle Edwards 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michelle Edwards (born March 6, 1966) is an American retired professional women’s basketball player. She was a member of the United States women’s national basketball team, that claimed the bronze medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. Edwards was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014.

Stringer had taken over a program at Iowa that had produced losing records for the prior three years. In Stringer’s first season 1983–84, the record improved to 17–10. Edwards was one of the first recruits, and joined Stringer in her second year at Iowa. The team would go 20–8 in her freshman year, and improved that record each of the four years Edwards was at Iowa. The team finished second in the Big Ten in her freshman and sophomore years, then in a tie for first place as a junior, and sole possession of first place in her senior year.

1997–2000: Cleveland Rockers 2000–2001: Seattle Storm

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Michelle Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michelle Edwards celebrates birthday on March 6 of every year.