STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford guard and Normandy Park, Wash. native Brittany McPhee has signed a training camp contract with the Seattle Storm.
The Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and third team All-American according to USA TODAY, McPhee averaged career highs in points (16.7), rebounds (5.4), assists (2.4) and steals (1.3) in her senior season. She was also named an honorable mention All-American by both The Associated Press and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
A two-time national player of the week, McPhee scored 20+ nine times and was one of 14 Power 5 conference guards in the country to average 16.0 points and 5.0 rebounds. She scored 31 of her career-high 33 in Stanford's 78-65 upset at No. 6 Oregon on Feb. 4, which was the first 30-point road performance for a Stanford player against a top-10 team since 2007.
The senior became Stanford's 39th 1,000-point scorer in its win over No. 25 Arizona State on Jan. 26 and finished her career tied for 29th on the Cardinal's all-time scoring list with 1,250. McPhee became the first Stanford guard to average more than 15 points per game in a season since Candice Wiggins in 2007-08 (20.2).
A human biology major with a 3.72 GPA, McPhee became Stanford's ninth academic All-American when she was named to the 2017-18 CoSIDA Academic All-American Division I second team on March 12. Last season she was honored at the 2017 Final Four as women's basketball's Elite 90 award winner, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest grade point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 90 championships.
With a roster that returned just two starters and lost half of its scoring from a season ago, Stanford played five top-10 teams during the nonconference portion of its schedule and stumbled to a 6-6 mark, its worst heading into league play since 1998-99. Those tough lessons were learned without McPhee, who missed nine games in November and December recovering from a foot injury.
Once McPhee returned and the calendar switched to 2018, the Cardinal regrouped, finished second in the Pac-12 with a 14-3 record, secured the program's 17th consecutive 20-win season and its 11th straight Sweet 16 appearance.
Eleven of McPhee's 26 outings this season were against the AP Top 25 and she averaged 18.6 points and 5.1 rebounds in those games. She was one of 10 players in the country to average 18.0 points and 5.0 rebounds against ranked teams (minimum 10 games).
Since the WNBA's inaugural season (1997), 28 Stanford alumnae have appeared in a regular-season game, four have gone on to earn All-Star nods and seven have won a combined eight WNBA championships.
