Candice Wiggins #11 Guard

Background

2011: Bounced back from an injury-shortened 2010 campaign to play in all 34 contests of her fourth WNBA season... Registered 5.9 ppg, 1.9 rpg and 1.5 apg while playing 17.1 mpg; she shot 38.6% from the field and a career-best 39.5% (49-for-124) from three-point distance, but slipped 62.5% from the FT line... Totaled seven double-digit scoring nights... Shot 31.6% (24-for-76) over the final 15 contests, following an 11-game run at 50.8% (33-for-65)... Snared seven rebounds Aug. 12 at Chicago, one shy of her career best (June 20, 2008 at Detroit)... had two blocks Aug. 14 vs. Tulsa... Her five treys Aug. 4 vs. San Antonio match a career high; she ranked 14th in three-point accuracy... Scored 16 points (the sole time she led Minnesota) while handing out a season-best five assists (logging a season-high 26:23) July 29 vs. Seattle... Dished out four assists July 26 vs. Los Angeles; she had 42 ast/18 TOs over the last 26 games (2.33-to-1), with Minnesota going 22-4... Chipped in a season-high 18 points June 30 at Tulsa, and added five rebounds June 26 vs. Indiana. 2010: Saw her third season in the WNBA limited to eight games (seven starts) due to injury... Sidelined for the first six games while recovering from arthroscopic surgery to repair a small meniscal tear in her right knee on Apr. 27... Left the June 22 game at New York in the 4th quarter after suffering a ruptured left Achilles tendon; she underwent season-ending surgery on June 25... Averaged 13.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.1 apg and 1.75 spg in her eight appearances, with Minnesota going 4-4... Shot 40.5% from the floor, 45.7% (21-for-46) from beyond the arc and 96.7% (29-for-30) from the line... Saw her franchise-record FT streak ended at 44 on June 22 at New York; Lindsay Whalen had set the previous mark (41) earlier in the season... Tied her career high with five treys (including the 100th of her career) June 19 at Tulsa; it was also the second time she was the Lynx' leading scorer... Posted season highs with six rebounds and three steals June 18 vs. Tulsa, while also surpassing the 1000-point mark for her career... The 22-point night June 4 at Tulsa was her 14th career 20+ effort; she dealt a season-high four assists June 10 at Phoenix... 2009: Finished her second WNBA season by being the only Lynx player to start all 34 games; she'd come off the bench in 29 of her 30 appearances a year ago... Averaged 13.1 ppg (20th in the league), 2.9 rpg and 2.6 apg while playing a team-high 29.9 mpg; she shot 37.5% from the floor and 32.1% from three-point distance... Ranked 8th in the WNBA in FT accuracy (89.3%) and 8th in FT attempts (150); her percentage is the fourth-highest figure in franchise history... Went to the line 56 times in her final nine contests (33 in the previous 12 games); however, her three-point marksmanship dropped to 20.7% (6-for-29) over the last eight... Tallied a team-high 19 points (in a career-high 41:24) Sept. 1 at San Antonio, one of 10 times she led... The Aug. 23 outing at New York stopped a run of seven straight double-digit scoring nights; she averaged 13.8 ppg after Aug. 1 (15 games), after falling to 9.8 ppg (33.7%) in nine July contests... Pulled in a season-high seven rebounds Aug. 23 at New York, and dished out a seasonhigh six assists Aug. 15 at Chicago... Scored a game-high 21 points Aug. 22 at Connecticut, one of six 20+ nights; she tallied a team-high 23 points Aug. 13 vs. Indiana... Held to a season-low four points (in a season-low 16:01) July 28 vs. Los Angeles, and committed a career-high six TOs July 19 at Seattle... Led Minnesota with 23 points June 30 at Atlanta (third straight 20+ outing) while swiping a career-high six steals... Named the WNBA's Western Conference Player of the Week for June 22-28... Snared six rebounds June 27 vs. Phoenix, and collected a season-high 25 points June 23 vs. New York... 2008: Concluded her first season in Minnesota by being named the WNBA's Sixth Woman of the Year and earning a berth on the All-Rookie Team, having recorded the league's highest scoring average ever for a player off the bench... Named the Hanns-G 'Go Beyond' Rookie of the Month for June... Ranked 15th (2nd among rookies) in scoring at 15.7 ppg, 7th in steals (1.80 spg) and 20th in assists (a team-best 3.0 apg)... Also collected 3.2 rpg in 27.5 mpg, while shooting 40.3% from the field, 30.6% from three-point distance and 81.7% from the FT line (good for 20th); she went to the line 197 times overall (4th in the league)... Appeared in 30 games, missing two (July 25-27) due to a lower back contusion and the season's final two (Sept. 12-14) after suffering a torn lateral meniscus in her right knee Sept. 9 vs. Indiana... Scored 20+ points seven times, eclipsing Chamique Holdsclaw's single-season WNBA mark for 20-point games off the bench (six in 2006); she reached double figures 27 times overall... Was Minnesota's top scorer seven times, and led in assists on 10 occasions... Registered the second point/assist double-double in franchise history May 31 vs. Phoenix; her 12 assists are the second-highest total ever by a Lynx player as well as the WNBA's second-best single-game effort in 2008... Pumped in a season-best 27 points July 17 at Houston, tying the second-highest point total by a non-starter in WNBA history... Made her lone start of the year June 28 at San Antonio; her six steals in that contest were one short of Svetlana Abrosimova's single-game club record... Contributed a season-high eight rebounds June 20 at Detroit, and scored a game-high 26 points June 14 at New York... Attempted a season-high 17 free throws June 21 vs. Houston, one of eight games she went to the line 10+ times... Logged a season-high 37:21 before fouling out June 20 at Detroit, one of her league-leading five DQs... Scored all of her 22 points June 3 at Atlanta in the 2nd half, including 15 in the 4th quarter; she also tallied 15 points in the final period of the July 19 victory at San Antonio.

Playoffs
2011: Captured her first career WNBA Championship… Averaged 4.0 points in 16.0 minutes per game, coming off the bench in all eight contests… Scored 10 points off the bench in the deciding game three of the WNBA Finals, draining three three-pointers… Played 28 minutes off the bench in game one of the Western Conference Finals, scoring 14 points and draining four three-pointers.

International
2011: Participated in the USA Basketball Women's National Team May Training Camp in Las Vegas... 2010: Added to 2010-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team roster... 2008: Helped Team USA garner the silver medal at the Good Luck Beijing Tournament in April 2008, averaging 5.3 ppg in six contests... Chosen as USA Basketball's 2007 Female Athlete of the Year on Jan. 3, 2008... 2007: Earned gold medals at both the FIBA U21 World Championships in Moscow (June 29-July 8) and the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 20-24)... Averaged 13.1 ppg (43.8%) and 2.4 rpg in eight contests at the U21 Worlds, highlighted by a 27-point effort in the semifinal win over Russia on July 7... Added 6.0 ppg and a team-high 2.0 apg in five Pan Am Games contests... Made her first appearance with the Senior National Team in the two-game exhibition set vs. Australia in September 2007, and was an alternate on the gold-medal-winning 2007 FIBA Americas Championship squad... 2005: Chosen to the all-tournament team at the 2005 FIBA U19 World Championships in Tunis, Tunisia, scoring 15.8 ppg (57.1%) in eight games.

Overseas
2010-11: Did not play overseas this offseason... 2009-10: Completed the winter season in Greece by helping Athinaikos claim three championships: FIBA EuroCup, Greek Cup and Greek A1 League... Named the 2009-10 EuroCup Player of the Year by Eurobasket.com after tallying 15.1 points, 3.87 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.13 steals per game in 16 contests... Part of Athinaikos' 26-0 record in Greek play... 2008-09: Spent 2009 winter in Spain, playing for Ros Casares of the Liga Femenina... Averaged 8.3 ppg in 22 games, and helped the Valencia-based squad capture the Spanish League title.

College
Named State Farm Wade Trophy winner (National Player of the Year) on April 5, 2008... Named 2007-08 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award winner... Named a Kodak/WBCA All-American (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), just the seventh player in Division I history to earn the honor four times... First-team Associated Press All-American (2008)... Second-team Associated Press All-American (2005, 2006, 2007)... Pac-10 Player of the Year (2005, 2006, 2008), first Pac-10 freshman to earn the Player of the Year honor (2005)... Wade Trophy finalist (2006, 2007, 2008), John Wooden Award finalist (2007, 2008), and Naismith Award finalist (2008)... Pac-10 Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2005, 2007, 2008)... Stanford's alltime leader in points per game (19.2 ppg), total points (2,629), career 3-pointers made (295), career free throws made (556), and career steals (281)... Pac-10's all-time leader in total points and career 3-pointers made. Passed Los Angeles Sparks star Lisa Leslie (2,414 career points, USC) as the Pac-10's all-time leading scorer on March 2, 2008... 2007-08: Led the Cardinal to their first appearance in the NCAA Championship game since 1992... Set new Stanford single-season records in points (787), and free throws made (184)... Became the first player to record two 40-point efforts in a single NCAA Tournament... Scored in double figures 37 times, 20 or more points 18 times, and 30 or more points five times... 2006-07: Started 28 of the 29 games she appeared in, averaging 30.6 minutes... Team leader in scoring (16.9 ppg) and 3-pointers (82) while ranking second in assists (96)... Scored in double figures 25 times... Led team in scoring 11 times... 2005-06: Became 26th player in school history to score 1,000 points during the season... Did so in the second-fastest pace (54 games)... Led Stanford and ranked fifth in the nation with 21.8 points per game... Averaged 26.0 ppg in the NCAA Tournament... Scored in double-figures in all 34 games... 2004-05: Named USBWA Co-Freshman of the Year... Led team with 17.5 points per game... Led club with 85 steals... Averaged 19.3 points per game during NCAA Tournament.