Jantel Lavender

Women’s Basketball
Representing United States
U18 and U19
	2006 U18 Colorado Springs	Team Competition
	2007 U19 Bratislava	Team Competition
World University Games
	2009 Belgrade	Team Competition

Jantel Lavender (born November 12, 1988) is a professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)and Fenerbahçe Women's Basketball, Istanbul.

College statistics

Source^[1]

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Year	Team	GP	Points	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2007–08	Ohio State	31	547	51.3	20.0	66.1	9.9	1.2	0.4	1.0	17.6
2008–09	Ohio State	35	728	54.1	-	75.5	10.7	1.8	0.4	1.2	20.8
2009–10	Ohio State	36	769	51.4	40.0	77.6	10.3	1.6	0.5	1.5	21.4
2010–11	Ohio State	34	774	54.8	-	80.2	10.9	2.4	0.4	1.8	22.8
Career	Ohio State	136	2818	53.0	23.1	75.6	10.5	1.8	0.4	1.4	20.7

USA Basketball

Lavender was a member of the USA Women's U18 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The event was held in July 2006, when the USA team defeated Canada to win the championship. Lavender averaged 4.8 points per game.^[2] Lavender was a member of the USA Women's U19 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA U19 World Championship in Bratislava, Slovakia. The event was held in July and August 2007, when the USA team defeated Sweden to win the championship. Lavender scored 16 points in the preliminary round game against Lithuania, then scored 28 points in a win over Spain. She scored 25 points in the win over the Czech Republic. Over the course of the tournament, she averaged 16.0 points per game, second only to Maya Moore with 16.3 per game. Lavender led the team in rebounding, averaging 8.1 per game.^[3] Lavender was named a member of the team representing the USA at the 2009 World University Games held in Belgrade, Serbia. The team won all seven games to earn the gold medal. She recorded a double-double, with 16 points and 12 rebounds against France. In the gold medal game against previously undefeated Russia, Lavender had 14 points.^[4]

WNBA career

Lavender was selected in the first round of the 2011 WNBA Draft (5th overall) by the Los Angeles Sparks.^[5] Lavender had a breakout season in 2015, averaging a career-high 14.5 points per game and 8.3 rebounds per game as the Sparks's starting center. That same year she was voted a WNBA all-star for the first time in her career. In the 2016 season, Lavender was given the sixth women role on the team's roster, with Candace Parker occupying the starting center position. Off the bench, Lavender was still effective for the Sparks, she had averaged 9.6 points per game and scored a career-high 25 points in an overtime regular season win against the Connecticut Sun.^[6] Her season performance would earn her the WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year Award.^[7] The Sparks finished 26-8, advancing all the way to the WNBA Finals and defeated the Minnesota Lynx 3 games to 2, as they won their first championship since 2002 as well as Lavender winning her first championship.

Overseas career

In the 2010-11 off-season, Lavender played in Turkey for Beşiktaş JK. In the 2011-12 off-season, Lavender played in Poland for CCC Polkowice. In the 2012-13 off-season, Lavender played in Italy for PF Schio. From 2013-15, Lavender played two off-seasons in Poland once again for WBC Wisła Kraków. In the 2015-16 off-season, Lavender played for Fenerbahçe Istanbul in Turkey.^[8] As of August 2016, Lavender had re-signed with Fenerbahçe Istanbul for the 2016-17 off-season.^[9]

WNBA statistics

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

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2011	Los Angeles	33	3	14.8	.500	.000	.733	3.1	0.5	0.1	0.3	0.8	6.6
2012	Los Angeles	34	1	14.4	.506	.000	.844	3.9	0.5	0.2	0.5	1.1	5.6
2013	Los Angeles	34	3	16.8	.507	.000	.865	4.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	1.0	7.2
2014	Los Angeles	34	27	28.3	.527	.200	.794	6.3	1.5	0.5	0.7	1.9	11.9
2015	Los Angeles	34	34	33.8	.525	.333	.882	8.3	1.8	0.4	1.2	2.1	14.5
2016	Los Angeles	34	0	19.4	.538	.000	.683	3.6	1.3	0.2	0.5	1.1	9.6
Career	6 years, 1 team	203	68	21.3	.520	.267	.806	5.0	1.0	0.4	0.6	1.4	9.2

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2012	Los Angeles	4	0	10.0	.750	.000	.500	2.3	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.7	1.8
2013	Los Angeles	3	0	11.6	.714	.000	.500	2.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.7
2014	Los Angeles	2	2	20.4	.429	.000	.000	4.5	1.5	0.5	0.0	0.5	6.0
2015	Los Angeles	3	3	34.5	.577	1.000	.600	6.7	1.0	0.6	0.3	1.6	11.3
2016	Los Angeles	9	0	15.6	.607	.000	.000	2.3	1.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	7.6
Career	5 years, 1 team	21	5	17.1	.589	.333	.556	3.1	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.5	6.3

References

↑ "Women's Basketball Player stats". NCAA. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
↑ "Sixth Women's Fiba Americas U18 Championship For Women -- 2006". USA Basketball. November 29, 2010. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
↑ "Seventh FIBA Women's U19 World Championship -- 2007". USA Basketball. February 20, 2014. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
↑ "TWENTY-FIFTH WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES -- 2009". USA Basketball. Retrieved 17 Oct 2013.
↑ http://www.wnba.com draft2011/draft_board.html 2011 WNBA Draft board
↑ http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/20160928/womens-basketball--ex-ohio-state-star-jantel-lavender-is-wnba-sixth-woman-of-year
↑ http://www.wnba.com/news/sparks-jantel-lavender-named-2016-wnba-sixth-woman-year/
↑ New ransfers for women basketball section
↑ http://www.womensbasketball247.com/2016/08/2016-2017-wnba-overseas-signings/

External links

Ohio State Buckeyes bio

Los Angeles Sparks current roster

0 Beard 3 Parker 7 Gruda 10 Belyakova 12 Gray 17 Carson 20 Toliver 21 Wauters 23 Dabović 28 Dubljević 30 Ogwumike 42 Lavender Head coach B. Agler Assistant coaches T. Edwards A. Stocks

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Los Angeles Sparks 2016 WNBA Champions

0 Alana Beard 3 Candace Parker (Finals MVP) 7 Sandrine Gruda 10 Evgeniya Belyakova 12 Chelsea Gray 17 Essence Carson 20 Kristi Toliver 21 Ann Wauters 23 Ana Dabović 28 Jelena Dubljević 30 Nneka Ogwumike 42 Jantel Lavender Head Coach: Brian Agler Assistant Coaches: Tonya Edwards Amber Stocks

Fenerbahçe 2015–16 squad

4 Olcay 5 Gökçe 6 Nacickaitė 7 Birsel (C) 8 Melisa 9 Melis 10 Hülya 11 Verameyenka 12 Tuğçe 13 Hollingsworth 14 Lavender 22 Kobryn 25 Coleman 30 Quigley Coach: George Dikeoulakos

Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year

1983: Coenen
1984: Browne
1985: Browne
1986: Hall
1987: Hall
1988: Edwards
1989: Cline
1990: Price
1991: Holmes
1992: Joseph
1993: Foster
1994: Shudlick
1995: Lovelace
1996: K. Smith
1997: Berggren
1998: T. Smith
1999: White
2000: Darling & Douglas
2001: Douglas
2002: Whalen
2003: Mazzante
2004: Mazzante
2005: Davenport
2006: Davenport
2007: Davenport
2008: Anderson & Lavender
2009: Lavender
2010: Lavender
2011: Keane & Lavender
2012: Prahalis
2013: Lucas
2014: Hooper & Lucas
2015: Mitchell & Zahui B.
2016: Banham

2011 WNBA Draft

First round	Maya Moore Liz Cambage Courtney Vandersloot Amber Harris Jantel Lavender Danielle Robinson Kayla Pedersen Ta'Shia Phillips Jeanette Pohlen Alex Montgomery Victoria Dunlap Jasmine Thomas

Second round	Jessica Breland Felicia Chester Carolyn Swords Sydney Colson Angie Bjorklund Rachel Jarry Brittany Spears Danielle Adams Italee Lucas Angel Robinson Karima Christmas Ify Ibekwe

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