Suzanne Brigit Bird is a professional women's basketball player. A high school star from Christ The King RHS, she went on to become a key part of two national champion University of Connecticut teams, the first player to be picked in the 2002 WNBA Draft and an Olympic gold medalist.A guard for the WNBA's Seattle Storm, Bird has become an All-Star and one of the league's premiere players by playing a disciplined and unselfish game. She honed her skills at Connecticut University, where she won two national championships, and brought home an ESPY in 2002 for Female College Athlete of the Year. She currently plays for the WNBA's Seattle Storm, with whom she won a championship in 2004.
Bird gained renown while playing as the starting point guard for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team from 1998 to 2002, and led them to NCAA titles in 2000 and 2002. While playing for the Huskies, Bird was feared most as a three-point shooter, and also at the free throw line, where she averaged over 90% of her free throws in her sophomore and senior seasons. At the conclusion of her college career, she was named the Naismith Award winner and College Player of the Year in 2002. She started in every game in which she appeared, and the team went 114-4 during that time.
"If I'm playing confidently, there's really, in my eyes... nothing I can't do. And there's sometimes if, I tend to play tentatively, I don't play as well. So I think if anything, for me, in the game of basketball, it's me versus the game."
- Sue Bird
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