AishaSheppard

Career Highlights

• 2022 WNBA Champion

2022 (Las Vegas)

• Won WNBA Championship (1)
• Scored a career-high 6 points at Phoenix on May 6

WNBA POSTSEASON CAREER

2022 (Las Vegas—2-0 vs. Phoenix, 1st Round; 3-1 s. Seattle, WNBA Semifinals; 3-1 vs. Connecticut, WNBA Finals)

• Played in 4 of 10 games

AISHA SHEPPARD IN THE NEWS

• For Virginia Tech grad, Aisha Sheppard, winning WNBA title is “unbelievable” (September 25, 2022)
• Aces’ Aisha Sheppard makes beer angel after WNBA title win (September 19, 2022)
• Ex-Hokie Aisha Sheppard ‘super, super happy’ to be WNBA rookie (August 13, 2022)

• Uncut releases new video highlighting Aisha Sheppard  (Nov. 11, 2021)

OVERSEAS CAREER

2022-23 [Clarinos Tenerife—Spain (LF Endesa)]

• Team finished 16th out of 16 teams in the regular season
• Led the team in scoring, field goal percentage, three-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage while finishing 2nd in rebounding, steals and free throw percentage
• Scored in double figures on 20 occasions, including 20 or more points 9 times, and a career-high 29 vs. Leganes on January 14
• Grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds, and added 23 points for her first career double-double, vs. Valencia on December 17
• Handed out a career-high 4 assists on 2 occasions
• Picked up a career-high 4 steals vs. Barca CBS on December 12

COLLEGE

Graduate Student (Virginia Tech, 2021-22)

• Set the program record for career points
• Set the conference record for most career made three-pointers
• Named to the All-ACC Second Team
• Named to the ACC All-Tournament Second Team
• Broke her own program record for made threes in a season

Senior (Virginia Tech, 2020-21)

• Named an AP Honorable Mention All-American
• Named to the All-ACC First Team
• Scored 20 or more points on 9 occasions
• Scored 28 points, including 18 in the overtime period of the program’s highest AP ranked win, over No. 2 NC State on Jan. 28
• Broke her own program record for made threes in a season

Junior (Virginia Tech, 2019-20)

• Named to the All-ACC Second Team
• Set the program record for made threes in a season

Sophomore (Virginia Tech, 2018-19)

• Finished third on the team in made threes

Freshman (Virginia Tech, 2017-18)

• Led the team with 76 three-pointers, a freshman record at Virginia Tech
• Knocked down seven triples on the road against eventual national champion, Notre Dame, tying the program record for most in an ACC contest, en route to a season-high 21 points.

HIGH SCHOOL

• The Gatorade Player of the Year for Washington, D.C.,
• Lettered at St. John’s Catholic for coach Jonathan Scribner
• Recognized as the MVP at the She’s Got Game and Art Turner Tournaments
• Named a USA Today High School All-American, First Team WCAC, All-USA Washington D.C. First Team, All-Metro Player of the Year, and Second Team D.C. All-Tournament
• Was an ESPN HoopGurlz 5-star recruit

PERSONAL

• The daughter of Darlene Sheppard
• Has three siblings
• Owns a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism
• Studied agricultural and life sciences in grad school