Currently, she is living happily with he⦠Her production subsequently increased and she was rewarded for her efforts with a Pac-10 All-Defensive honorable mention team selection. She was there for the first ultrasound, getting to hear their baby's heartbeat and learning they would have a boy. Another word for discordant. 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She was later named Pac-10 Player of the Week for her 24-point scoring output against California on March 2. [57] In the semi-finals, Whitcomb scored a career-high 41 points. On January 31, 2009, she scored a then career-high 29 points against Arizona State. [28][37] In 24 games, she averaged 22.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.8 steals per game. Perth sorely missed the shooting prowess of Sami Whitcomb, who sat out the season to be with wife Kate Malpass for the birth of their first child, a beautiful son Nash who was born in mid-November. Kate Malpass: Willetton Tigers: 5.52 Steals per game: Sami Whitcomb: Rockingham Flames: 3.2 Blocks per game: Louella Tomlinson: Willetton Tigers: 3.13 Field goal percentage: Lara Napier: Willetton Tigers: 55.6% 3-pt field goal percentage: Lyndal Gardner: Stirling Senators: 38.3% Free throw percentage: Deanna Smith: Perry Lakes Hawks: 92.2% [23], On February 10, 2021, Whitcomb was acquired by the New York Liberty via sign-and-trade in exchange for the rights to Stephanie Talbot.[25]. [32], For the 2018–19 season, Whitcomb played for French team Basket Lattes. [62] She helped the Lynx record their first 10-game win streak since 1993,[63][64] with the streak finally ending after 14 straight wins culminating in claiming the minor premiership with a first-place finish and a 15–6 record. Her 567 total points was also the second best mark ever set in the WNBL regular season—Penny Taylor had 570 in 2002. Article by: Chris Pike (Chris Pike Basketball – SBL Shootaround) “We didn’t have to force bonding or team activities in the bubble because we are close and friends, and if we want to hang out we will. While Kate isn't due until mid-November, Whitcomb said Kate has a higher chance for an early delivery because she underwent in vitro fertilization. Obviously basketball is important to me and it’s something I love to do, but at the end of the day family comes first,” Whitcomb said. [65][66] For the season, she earned one Player of the Week award,[67] five Team of the Week selections,[68] and All-Star Five honors for the third consecutive season. [33], Whitcomb returned to Basket Lattes for the 2019–20 season. We chat to her about reaching another WNBA Finals with the Seattle Storm but now her decision to return home to Perth to be with pregnant wife Kate Malpass, and why she has to go through four weeks of quarantine just to get home! [77] In September 2018, she was added to the Opals squad for the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, replacing the injured Leilani Mitchell. A lot of them will be excited by that opportunity too so for sure that familiarity and crop of talent we are bringing together should be exciting. Sharpshooter Sami Whitcomb has made the call to sit out the WNBL season to be with wife Kate Malpass ahead of the birth of their first child. “I was going to fly into Singapore and I had booked a separate flight to Perth, but then at the airport they told me I wasn’t allowed to do that even though they had booked it for me. “Kate and I decided that it was more important for me to be back for that so I got on a flat earlier this week and even with that I had tried to fly to Perth, and the route I was going to take I had book in two separate itineraries. [43] In 26 games, she averaged 25.3 points per game. “Then even in the sense of seeing your own teammates all the time, we do hang out a lot together usually when we are in Seattle or on the road and on our off days, but it is different when you are stuck in a place and you can’t get any of your own time either. But the process had stalled by June because of the challenges associated with applying from overseas. Whitcomb was always excited to return to the Lynx for the upcoming season having spent the past two WNBA off-seasons in France with Basket Lattles. Sam Briggs (white pant) and her wife Nicole Holcomb (black skirt) Denise Thomas (right) and her wife Cassidy Lance-M ... Sami Whitcomb, American, and Kate Malpass, Australian Cyesha Goree, American, and Tatsiana Likhtarovich, Belorusian Jacki Gemelos, American-Greek, and Sabrini Cinili, Italian. Whitcombâs big year Whitcombâs big year Whitcombâs big year. But as Sami and Kate sipped coffee while the rest of the city slept, the enormity Whitcombâs recent achievements couldnât be glossed over. “It has been a long time away so I’m excited to be there for that and excited to at least see and hear what’s happening with the WNBL season and what it’s going to look like. In a separate trade with Seattle, the Liberty got guard Sami Whitcomb for the rights to Stephanie Talbot. The support of everyone at the Storm was fully supportive of the decision too. She led the Huskies in scoring (12.8 ppg), steals (2.3 spg), three-pointers made (54) and free-throws made (71), while she was second in rebounding (3.9 rpg) and third in assists (1.2 apg). [73], In May 2017, Whitcomb applied for Australian citizenship. “Across the board all of those local girls, it’s really exciting just to be able to bring them all together and be able to play together in Perth. Since the start of the 2017-18 WNBL season, Whitcomb had won 84 of her 114 matches. [53] She appeared in all 27 games for the Lynx in 2015–16, averaging 19.4 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.8 steals per game. We would literally just play cards or sit by the pool but sometimes everyone wanted their own space too after we were around each other 24 hours a day. She parted ways with the Lynx following the season. She became an Australian citizen in 2018 and made her debut for the Australian Opals. [34] She scored a season-high 30 points. [75] On February 1, 2018, Whitcomb was naturalized at a ceremony in Perth before flying to Italy the next day for the Opals' training camp. [3], As a junior in 2008–09, Whitcomb appeared in all 30 games while starting 29 of them. [30], Whitcomb was set to return to Germany to play for TSV 1880 Wasserburg in the 2014–15 season,[31] but later asked for the termination of her contract citing the need for a break from playing. [27] Wolfenbüttel made the finals in 2012–13 but went bankrupt and couldn't play out the season. It's a bit sad that this is the last Women's SBL Shootaround episode of 2020 but we are going out with a bang with Makailah Dyer joining us as co-host, Sami Whitcomb joining us as a very special guest and then we wrap up the finals weekend of the West Coast Classic.It's a massive final episode of Women's SBL Shootaround this week with regular co-hosts Chris ⦠She qualified after meeting the criteria of living in Australia for at least four years and being a permanent resident for at least 12 months. “We won in 2018 and then we lost Stewy and Sue to injuries, and still battled, and I think gained a lot of great experience for the players that played the following season, but we never felt we got a chance to defend our title. Once that is done she needs to do another two weeks of quarantine in Perth, which she desperately hopes she can do at home with Kate about to give birth within the next month. As her Seattle Storm teammates celebrated sweeping the Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday night in Bradenton, Florida, to win their second championship in the last three years, it was midday Wednesday in Sydney, Australia, where backup guard Sami Whitcomb was joining in via a Zoom call that the WNBA projected on a screen overlooking the [â¦] Whitcomb is one of the best pure shooters in the world and played a key role in Seattle Stormâs WNBA Championship earlier this year, before heading home prior to the Finals to be with Kate. ... W hat an autumn it was for former Husky basketball star Sami Whitcomb, â10. Sami Whitcomb is openly a lesbian and is married to her girlfriend Kate in 2017 since they have been together for a very long time and the couple got married in the United States.Further details about her spouse are not yet disclosed on the media. That chemistry we have is a product of some of us playing together for six years and I’ve been there for four years now. Whitcomb is the daughter of Jan and Sander, and has an older brother, Jason. She led the team with an 81.0 free-throw shooting percentage (17-for-21), was fourth on the squad with 15 three-pointers made, and averaged 4.3 points and 1.6 rebounds per game. You are constantly walking past each other and seeing each other so in that regard it’s quite different,” Whitcomb said. The Seattle Storm will be without one of their top sharpshooters for the WNBA Finals. While Whitcomb hopes to earn another WNBA championship over the coming days and can’t wait to get back underway in the WNBL at the Lynx, ultimately what’s occupying most of her mind right now is looking forward to her and Kate welcoming their son into the world. But with her and wife Kate Malpass expecting their first child any day now, she wanted to be back home to be with her family although the ramifications of COVID-19 have meant that has become a little more complicated than it otherwise would have been. 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