LaMurriel Page (born September 18, 1975) is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a forward and center in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for eleven seasons. Page played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was drafted in the first round of the 1998 WNBA draft. She played professionally for the Washington Mystics and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. Currently, she is an assistant women's basketball coach at Miami Hurricanes.
Miami Hurricanes | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||||
League | SEC | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Louin, Mississippi | September 18, 1975||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 160 lb (73 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Bay Springs (Bay Springs, Mississippi) | ||||||||||||||
College | Florida (1994–1998) | ||||||||||||||
WNBA draft | 1998: 1st round, 3rd overall pick | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Washington Mystics | |||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1998–2009 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
Number | 10, 00 | ||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 2010–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
As player: | |||||||||||||||
1998–2005 | Washington Mystics | ||||||||||||||
2006–2008 | Los Angeles Sparks | ||||||||||||||
As coach: | |||||||||||||||
2010–2017 | Florida (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2018–2020 | Central Michigan (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2020–2022 | Georgia Tech (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2022–2024 | Mississippi State (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2024–present | Miami (FL) (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
Career WNBA statistics | |||||||||||||||
Points | 2,154 (6.1 ppg) | ||||||||||||||
Rebounds | 1,603 (4.5 rpg) | ||||||||||||||
Assists | 412 (1.2 apg) | ||||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||||
Medals
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Early years
editMurriel Page was born in Louin, Mississippi in 1975. She attended Bay Springs High School in Bay Springs, Mississippi, where she led her Bay Springs high school basketball team to two state championships.[1]
College career
editPage accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she played for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team. At the end of her Gators career, Page was ranked second all-time in points (1,915), rebounds (1,251), field goal percentage (.550), and free throws made (334). She graduated from the University of Florida with her bachelor's degree in 1998, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2009.[2][3]
Florida statistics
editSource[4]
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 |
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1994–95 | Florida | 33 | 349 | 61.4% | 0.0% | 52.2% | 7.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 10.6 |
1995–96 | Florida | 30 | 432 | 48.6% | 0.0% | 62.9% | 9.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 14.4 |
1996–97 | Florida | 33 | 522 | 54.3% | 0.0% | 59.9% | 10.3 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 15.8 |
1997–98 | Florida | 32 | 612 | 57.1% | 16.7% | 67.3% | 12.6 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 19.1 |
TOTALS | Florida | 128 | 1915 | 55.0% | 16.7% | 61.5% | 9.8 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 15.0 |
USA Basketball
editPage competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1997 Jones Cup Team that won the silver medal in Taipei. Several of the games were close, with the USA team winning four games by six points or fewer, including an overtime game in the semifinal match against Japan. The gold medal game against South Korea was also close, but the USA fell 76–71 to claim the silver medal for the event. Page was the leading scorer for the team, averaging 14.7 points per game.[5]
Professional career
editPage was selected third overall in the first round of the 1998 WNBA draft by the Washington Mystics, where she played for eight seasons. In March 2006, Page was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks along with Temeka Johnson in exchange for Nikki Teasley. During the 2008–2009 WNBA off-season, she played in Spain with Mallorca.[6] During the 2007–08 off-season she played with San Jose, also in Spain.[7]
College coach
editFollowing her retirement from professional basketball, Page worked as an assistant coach for the Florida Gators women's basketball team under head coach Amanda Butler beginning with the 2010–11 season until 2016–17.[8] Page then served as an assistant coach at Central Michigan from 2017 to 2020 before joining the Georgia Tech staff in July 2020. In 2022 she joined Sam Purcell's staff at Mississippi State.
WNBA career statistics
editGP | 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 best | ° | League leader |
Regular season
editYear | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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1998 | Washington | 30 | 30 | 31.8 | .479 | .000 | .631 | 6.9 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 8.3 |
1999 | Washington | 32 | 26 | 28.6 | .574° | .000 | .683 | 6.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 8.8 |
2000 | Washington | 32 | 32 | 32.7 | .590° | .000 | .565 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 9.8 |
2001 | Washington | 32 | 32 | 30.9 | .433 | .235 | .583 | 5.5 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 7.0 |
2002 | Washington | 32 | 15 | 23.4 | .451 | .500 | .566 | 4.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 6.5 |
2003 | Washington | 34 | 34 | 25.0 | .377 | .417 | .750 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 6.3 |
2004 | Washington | 33 | 19 | 24.5 | .463 | .000 | .550 | 4.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 5.6 |
2005 | Washington | 34 | 4 | 17.3 | .395 | .273 | 1.000 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 3.2 |
2006 | Los Angeles | 34 | 4 | 20.3 | .471 | .000 | .761 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 4.9 |
2007 | Los Angeles | 34 | 8 | 18.4 | .418 | .200 | .792 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 4.8 |
2008 | Los Angeles | 27 | 1 | 9.0 | .327 | .250 | .667 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.6 |
Career | 11 years, 2 teams | 354 | 205 | 23.9 | .464 | .259 | .651 | 4.5 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 6.1 |
Playoffs
editYear | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2000 | Washington | 2 | 2 | 34.5 | .444 | .000 | .750 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 5.5 |
2002 | Washington | 5 | 0 | 22.6 | .630 | .000 | .933 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 9.6 |
2004 | Washington | 3 | 3 | 30.0 | .313 | .000 | .500 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 3.7 |
2006 | Los Angeles | 5 | 1 | 23.6 | .310 | .500 | .818 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 5.6 |
2008 | Los Angeles | 5 | 0 | 3.0 | .000 | .000 | .500 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Career | 5 years, 2 teams | 20 | 6 | 20.3 | .422 | .500 | .824 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 5.0 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Dana Gelin, "Murriel page, Florida," Sports Illustrated (March 1998). Retrieved November 3, 2011.
- ^ F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
- ^ "Eight 2009 Honorees Inducted Into UF Athletic Hall of Fame Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine," GatorZone.com (April 17, 2009). Retrieved July 22, 2011.
- ^ "Florida Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-09-10.
- ^ "1997 Women's R. William Jones Cup". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "WNBA.com: Offseason 2008–09: Overseas Roster". www.wnba.com. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
- ^ "WNBA.com: Offseason 2007–08: Overseas Roster". www.wnba.com. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
- ^ GatorZone.com, Women's Basketball, Coaching & Support Staff, Murriel Page Archived 2011-09-02 at the Wayback Machine.
External links
edit- Murriel Page – Official WNBA player profile