Murriel Page facts for kids
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| Born | September 18, 1975 Louin, Mississippi |
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
| High school | Bay Springs (Bay Springs, Mississippi) |
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| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 160 lb (73 kg) | |||||||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||||||
| College | Florida (1994–1998) | |||||||||||||
| NBA Draft | 1998 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd overall | |||||||||||||
| Selected by the Washington Mystics | ||||||||||||||
| Pro career | 1998–2009 | |||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2010–present | |||||||||||||
| League | SEC | |||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||
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| 1998–2005 | Washington Mystics | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Los Angeles Sparks | |||||||||||||
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| 2010–2017 | Florida (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Central Michigan (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Georgia Tech (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2022-present | Mississippi State (assistant) | |||||||||||||
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| Career WNBA statistics | ||||||||||||||
| Points | 2,154 (6.1 ppg) | |||||||||||||
| Rebounds | 1,603 (4.5 rpg) | |||||||||||||
| Assists | 412 (1.2 apg) | |||||||||||||
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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 Mississippi State.
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Early years
Murriel 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.
College career
Page 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.
Florida statistics
Source
| Legend | |||||
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Page 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.
Professional career
Page 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. During the 2007–08 off-season she played with San Jose, also in Spain.
College coach
Following 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. 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
| Legend | |||||||
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| GP | 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 high | ° | League leader | ||||
Regular season
| Year | 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
| Year | 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
- List of Florida Gators in the WNBA
- List of University of Florida alumni
- List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
