Elizabeth Cambage
Rookie center Liz Cambage of the Tulsa Shock has been named as a replacement player for the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game presented by adidas, league President Laurel J. Richie announced today. Cambage will take the roster spot of Los Angeles Sparks center Candace Parker on the Western Conference roster. Parker, who was voted to the game as a starter by fans, suffered a knee injury at New York on June 26 and is expected to be out of action until August.
The 2011 WNBA All-Star Game presented by adidas will be nationally broadcast on ABC, Saturday, July 23, at 3:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. CT). This will be the first time the San Antonio Silver Stars are hosting the midseason showcase.
The second overall selection in the 2011 WNBA Draft presented by adidas, Cambage is one of a record 11 players, four starters and seven reserves, making their first All-Star appearances, the most since 2000 when nine were selected. The 6-8, 19-year-old native of Australia becomes the fourth member of this year’s rookie class to be selected to an All-Star roster. Cambage joins starter Maya Moore of Minnesota, and a pair of reserves, San Antonio forward Danielle Adams and Chicago guard Courtney Vandersloot, as first-year players appearing in the All-Star Game. This marks the most rookies named to All-Star rosters since 2006, when Seimone Augustus, Cappie Pondexter, Sophia Young, and Candice Dupree were selected.
Having played in 14 games, Cambage ranks second among Shock players in scoring (13.6 ppg) and rebounds (5.3 rpg), with statistics based on games played through Tuesday, July 19. Among all rookies, she ranks first in rebounding and blocks (1.2 bpg), and third in scoring and steals (1.3 spg).
Seattle Head Coach Brian Agler will coach the Western Conference squad by virtue of the Storm having won the 2010 WNBA championship. Atlanta Dream Head Coach Marynell Meadors, who led her club to the Eastern Conference title last season, will lead the Eastern Conference team.
As coach of the West squad, Agler will select a player from his roster to insert into the starting lineup in place of Parker.
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Good story from Tulsa World on Elizabeth Cambage and her interest in fashion:
Elizabeth Cambage might be a smidgen superstitious.
“Thirteen is an unlucky number,” she said, moving down one more to seat 12 on a row inside the empty BOK Center.
“These don’t have much leg room,” she noticed, smiling as she tucked her 6-foot-8 frame into the seat before swinging her feet over to the seat beside her. “If I came to a game, I’d be struggling.”
A couple of hours before, she had been on the court, practicing with her Tulsa Shock teammates. But now, she was in a box seat wearing Australian designer clothes and makeup, fielding questions she hasn’t been used to answering – at least not yet in Tulsa.
Perhaps because she’s the youngest – 19, with a birthday coming up next month – and tallest player on the team, Cambage is an identifiable fashion plate. We first spied her out of uniform while she was sidelined by an injury a couple of weeks before, with ESPN’s cameras frequently panning to her. Looked like she was wearing a smart suit; but it was a sports channel, not the Style network, so quick takes and people in the way made surmising a harder task.
The day we arrived at the BOK to meet her in person to talk about her style, we waited a few minutes on the court. We were told she had her own outfits to model.
And did she ever, the first being a fabulous piece by Australian design duo sass & bide. Created by Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke, sass & bide might ring a bell with “Sex and the City” fans, as Sarah Jessica Parker’s character wore it. So have Beyonce and Madonna.
None of them have probably donned it quite as statuesquely as Cambage, though, her smile brightened with a fuchsia-hued lip color, her hair down, padding toward us in black ballet flats by Barefoot Tess.
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Congrats to Elizabeth Cambage on being drafted second overall in today’s NBA Draft! Here’s a little video footage to help you get to know Liz a bit better.
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