In the 20 days leading up to the 20th annual WNBA Draft, WNBA.com and @WNBA are highlighting the first 19 No. 1 overall picks and their place in league history. Our 20-day countdown continues with Tina Charles, the first selection in the 2010 WNBA Draft.

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With the first pick in the 2010 WNBA Draft, the Connecticut Sun selected center Tina Charles, who played her college ball just 30 miles away at the University of Connecticut and led the Huskies to a pair of NCAA titles.

Charles has been a force to be reckoned with since she first stepped foot on a WNBA court. The unamimous pick for Rookie of the Year, Charles averaged a double-double in her first WNBA season with a league-leading 11.7 rebounds to go with 15.5 points per game.

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This was the first of three straight rebounding titles for Charles, who holds the top two single-season rebounding totals in WNBA history (398 in 2010 and 374 in 2011). Charles has been a double-double machine in the WNBA, with the top two single-season marks in that category as well (a rookie record 22 in 2010 and a league-record 23 in 2011). For her career, Charles is averaging 17.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game, as she is the only player in WNBA history to average over 10 rebounds per game for her career.

Charles is a four-time All-Star and has been selected to either the All-WNBA First Team (2011, 2012, 2015) or Second Team (2010, 2013, 2014) in every year of her career. She was named the league’s Most Valuable Player in 2012 after averaging a career-best 18.0 points and 10.5 rebounds to lead the Sun to an Eastern Conference best 25-9 record on the season.

After playing her first four years in Connecticut, Charles was traded to the New York Liberty prior to the 2014 season. In 2015, the Liberty finished atop the East in the regular season with a 23-11 record, but were knocked out of the playoffs in the Eastern Conference Finals by the Indiana Fever.