Rita Williams (born January 14, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was the 13th pick in the 1998 WNBA draft, selected by the Washington Mystics. She attended Mitchell College, and played college basketball for the University of Connecticut.
WNBA career During the 2000 expansion draft on December 15, 1999, Williams was selected by the Indiana Fever.
In the 2000 WNBA season, Williams had the third most steals per game average (2.38). In the 2001 WNBA season, Williams became the first WNBA All-Star in Indiana Fever history.
Career statistics
WNBA Regular season
| align=left | | align=left | Washington |bgcolor=#d3d3d3|30°||18||23.7||.323||.218||.633||2.3||2.3||2.1||0.1||2.3||4.4 |- | align=left | | align=left | Washington |31||0||10.1||.500||.559||.639||1.2||1.0||0.7||0.0||0.8||3.4 |- | align=left | | align=left | Indiana |bgcolor=#d3d3d3|32°||29||31.7||.409||.374||.731||3.0||3.2||2.4||0.1||2.2||11.0 |- | align=left | | align=left | Indiana |bgcolor=#d3d3d3|32°||29||32.6||.392||.376||.838||3.3||3.6||2.3||0.3||3.1||11.9 |- | rowspan=2 align=left | | align=left | Indiana |20||1||24.2||.289||.254||.735||1.9||2.2||1.1||0.1||1.5||6.0 |- | align=left | Houston |9||0||9.4||.455||.333||.700||0.7||0.8||1.2||0.0||1.1||2.1 |- | align=left | | align=left | Seattle |32||0||11.9||.373||.256||.733||0.7||1.3||0.4||0.0||0.8||2.4 |- class="sortbottom" | rowspan=2 align=left| Career | align=left | 6 years, 4 teams | 186 || 77 || 21.7 || .380 || .339 || .742 || 2.0 || 2.2 || 1.5 || 0.1 || 1.8 || 6.4 |- class="sortbottom" | align=center| All-Star | 1 || 0 || 9.0 || .000 || .000 || — || 0.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
Playoffs
|style="text-align:left;"|2002 |style="text-align:left;"|Houston | 3 || 0 || 23.0 || .320 || .286 ||—|| 2.0 || 2.3 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 6.7 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:left;"| Career |align=left| 1 year, 1 team | 3 || 0 || 23.0 || .320 || .286 ||—|| 2.0 || 2.3 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 6.7
College
| style="text-align:left;" | 1995–96 | style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut |30||—||—||.381||.211||.519||1.6||0.8||1.1||0.0||—||2.6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1996–97 | style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut |34||—||—||.354||.200||.552||3.7||3.3||3.1||0.2||—||7.2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | 1997–98 | style="text-align:left;" | Connecticut |37||—||—||.408||.353||.673||3.3||4.0||2.9||0.1||—||10.2 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career |101||—||—||.384||.301||.601||2.9||2.8||2.5||0.1||—||6.9
Personal life Williams earned a degree in sociology from University of Connecticut.
See also List of WNBA All-Stars List of Connecticut Huskies in the WNBA draft
References
External links WNBA.com All-Star 2001: Ask the All-Stars: Rita Williams