2003 WNBA draft

2003 meeting of WNBA teams to select players August 2023 2003 WNBA draft Basketball April 24, 2003 WNBA Miami Sol Portland Fire (both teams folded in 2002) LaToya ThomasCleveland Rockers 2002 2004 The 2003 WNBA draft, both the dispersal draft and the annual WNBA draft, took place on April 24, 2003. The dispersal draft involved players from the rosters of the Portland Fire and Miami Sol teams which had both folded after the 2002 season. For that reason, Miami's picks obtained in trades were lost.PLUS: W.N.B.A.; Dispersal Draft Scatters 2 Rosters https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/sports/plus-wnba-dispersal-draft-scatters-2-rosters.html The New York Times April 25, 2003 May 21, 2025 Former Sol and Fire players not selected in the dispersal draft became unrestricted free agents.Detroit adds Riley with top pick https://www.espn.com/wnba/news/2003/0424/1544361.html ESPN April 25, 2003 May 23, 2025 The order of selection was determined by teams' 2002 regular season records, going from worst to first. Along with the folding of the Fire and the Sol, two teams moved to new cities. The Utah Starzz moved from Salt Lake City, Utah, to San Antonio, Texas, changing their name to the San Antonio Silver Stars, and the Orlando Miracle moved from Orlando, Florida, to Uncasville, Connecticut, to become the Connecticut Sun. The Sun became the first franchise not to be based in a city that also was home to an NBA franchise. The draft itself also changed. Instead of the previous four-round format, the 2003 draft shrank to its current format of only three rounds. Key y y y y y y Draft Round 1 Pick Player Position Nationality Team School / club team 1 LaToya Thomas F Cleveland Rockers Mississippi State 2 Chantelle Anderson C Sacramento Monarchs Vanderbilt 3Cheryl Ford * C Detroit Shock Louisiana Tech 4Plenette Pierson + F Phoenix Mercury Texas Tech 5Kara Lawson + G Detroit Shock (from Connecticut, traded to Sacramento) Tennessee 6 Gwen Jackson F Indiana Fever Tennessee 7 Aiysha Smith C Washington Mystics LSU 8 Jung Sun-min C Seattle Storm Gwangju Sinsegye Coolcats (South Korea) 9 Jocelyn Penn F Charlotte Sting South Carolina 10 Molly Creamer # G New York Liberty Bucknell 11 Coretta Brown G San Antonio Silver Stars North Carolina 12 Allison Curtin # G Houston Comets (traded to Detroit) Tulsa Round 2 Pick Player Position Nationality Team School / club team 13 Courtney Coleman F Connecticut Sun (from Detroit) Ohio State 14 Teresa Edwards ^ ! G Minnesota Lynx Georgia 15 Jennifer Butler # C Cleveland Rockers Massachusetts 16 Petra Ujhelyi F/C Phoenix Mercury (traded to Detroit) South Carolina 17 Erin Thorn G New York Liberty (from Sacramento) BYU 18 Jordan Adams C Minnesota Lynx (from Miami) New Mexico 19 Lori Nero # F/C Houston Comets (from Connecticut) Louisville 20 DeTrina White F Indiana Fever LSU 21 Zuzana Žirková G Washington Mystics Gambrinus Sika Brno (Czech Republic) 22 Suzy Batkovic C Seattle Storm Valenciennes (France) 23 Dana Cherry # G Charlotte Sting Arkansas 24 Sonja Mallory C New York Liberty Georgia Tech 25 Ke-Ke Tardy # F San Antonio Silver Stars LSU 26 K. B. Sharp G New York Liberty (from Houston) Cincinnati 27 Schuye LaRue # F Los Angeles Sparks Virginia Round 3 Pick Player Position Nationality Team School / club team 28 Syreeta Bromfield # F Detroit Shock Michigan State 29 Carla Bennett # C Minnesota Lynx Drake 30 Shaquala Williams G Cleveland Rockers Oregon 31 Telisha Quarles # G Phoenix Mercury (traded to Detroit) Virginia 32 Trish Juhline # G Washington Mystics (from Sacramento) Villanova 33 Marion Jones G Phoenix Mercury (from Miami) North Carolina 34 Lindsey Wilson # G Connecticut Sun Iowa State 35 Ashley McElhiney # G Indiana Fever Vanderbilt 36 Tamara Bowie # F Washington Mystics Ball State 37 Chrissy Floyd # G Seattle Storm Clemson 38 Constance Jinks # G Houston Comets (from Charlotte) UNLV 39 Nicole Kaczmarski # G New York Liberty UCLA 40 Brooke Armistead # G San Antonio Silver Stars Austin Peay 41 Oxana Rakhmatulina # G Houston Comets CSKA Samara (Russia) 42 Mary Jo Noon # C Los Angeles Sparks Purdue See also List of first overall WNBA draft picks References http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html All-Time WNBA Draft List June 4, 2008 WNBA https://web.archive.org/web/20080509153954/http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html May 9, 2008 dead Draft 2003