# 2000 Miami Sol season

The 2000 WNBA season was the 1st season for the Miami Sol.

## Transactions
### WNBA expansion draft

| Player | Nationality | Former WNBA Team |
| Kate Starbird | United States | Sacramento Monarchs |
| Stephanie White | United States | Charlotte Sting |
| Debbie Black | United States | Utah Starzz |
| Sharon Manning | United States | Charlotte Sting |
| Lesley Brown | United States | Detroit Shock |
| Yolanda Moore | United States | Orlando Miracle |

### WNBA draft

| Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/Team/Country |
| 2 | 19 | Jameka Jones | United States | Charlotte |
| 3 | 40 | Milena Flores | United States | Stanford |

### Transactions

| Date | Transaction |
| December 15, 1999 | Drafted Kate Starbird, Stephanie White, Debbie Black, Sharon Manning, Lesley Brown and Yolanda Moore in the WNBA expansion draft |
| April 14, 2000 | Traded a 2000 1st Round Pick, 2000 2nd Round Pick and 2000 4th Round Pick to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for Marlies Askamp |
| April 25, 2000 | Drafted Jameka Jones and Milena Flores in the 2000 WNBA Draft |
| April 25, 2000 | Traded a 2001 4th Round Pick to the Phoenix Mercury in exchange for Shantia Owens |
| June 1, 2000 | Signed Sheri Sam |
| June 13, 2000 | Signed Kristen Rasmussen |
| November 7, 2000 | Traded Shantia Owens to the Charlotte Sting in exchange for Tracy Reid |

## Schedule
### Regular season

2000 game log Total: 13–19 (Home: 9–7; Road: 4–12) :
June: 4–10 (Home: 2–6; Road: 2–4)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
June 1
Indiana
L 54-57
Askamp Black (13)
Marlies Askamp (10)
Debbie Black (4)
American Airlines Arena
0–1
2
June 3
@ Charlotte
W 74-63 (OT)
Marlies Askamp (19)
Shantia Owens (11)
Milena Flores (5)
Charlotte Coliseum
1–1
3
June 5
@ Indiana
L 59-80
Jamie Cassidy (13)
Shantia Owens (7)
Debbie Black (5)
Conseco Fieldhouse
1–2
4
June 8
Washington
L 51-73
Sheri Sam (11)
Marlies Askamp (8)
Milena Flores (4)
American Airlines Arena
1–3
5
June 10
Minnesota
L 55-66
Sheri Sam (15)
Marlies Askamp (10)
Debbie Black (3)
American Airlines Arena
1–4
6
June 13
Detroit
W 74-61
Sheri Sam (17)
Marlies Askamp (13)
Debbie Black (6)
American Airlines Arena
2–4
7
June 15
@ Houston
L 53-77
Katrina Colleton (10)
Askamp Sam (5)
Milena Flores (4)
Compaq Center
2–5
8
June 17
Cleveland
W 55-48
Sheri Sam (21)
Owens Rasmussen (5)
Sheri Sam (5)
American Airlines Arena
3–5
9
June 18
@ New York
L 52-58
Katrina Colleton (19)
Marlies Askamp (10)
Debbie Black (4)
Madison Square Garden
3–6
10
June 21
@ Washington
W 57-55
Sheri Sam (18)
Manning Owens (6)
Sheri Sam (5)
MCI Center
4–6
11
June 23
Los Angeles
L 54-68
Sheri Sam (19)
Shantia Owens (8)
Milena Flores (3)
American Airlines Arena
4–7
12
June 24
Phoenix
L 44-67
Milena Flores (8)
Kristen Rasmussen (8)
Milena Flores (2)
American Airlines Arena
4–8
13
June 28
@ Orlando
L 53-61
Milena Flores (9)
Manning Sam (5)
Katrina Colleton (3)
TD Waterhouse Centre
4–9
14
June 30
Orlando
L 63-66
Katrina Colleton (14)
Kristen Rasmussen (9)
Sheri Sam (7)
American Airlines Arena
4–10 :
July: 6–7 (Home: 4–1; Road: 2–6)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
15
July 1
@ Fever
W 54-52
Sheri Sam (22)
Marlies Askamp (9)
Sheri Sam (4)
Conseco Fieldhouse
5–10
16
July 5
@ Charlotte
L 70-76
Sheri Sam (26)
Marlies Askamp (6)
Black Sam (5)
Charlotte Coliseum
5–11
17
July 7
Cleveland
W 49-46
Sharon Manning (13)
Marlies Askamp (8)
Debbie Black (4)
American Airlines Arena
6–11
18
July 8
@ New York
L 51-63
Askamp Manning (8)
Marlies Askamp (8)
Askamp Black Ford Manning Sam (3)
Madison Square Garden
6–12
19
July 10
Seattle
W 59-42
Marlies Askamp (21)
Marlies Askamp (13)
Jameka Jones (2)
American Airlines Arena
7–12
20
July 13
Washington
L 48-60
Colleton Sam (13)
Marlies Askamp (8)
Debbie Black (4)
American Airlines Arena
7–13
21
July 14
@ Detroit
L 50-80
Katrina Colleton (11)
Sharon Manning (9)
Black Sam (2)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
7–14
22
July 19
Portland
W 69-62
Katrina Colleton (19)
Sheri Sam (5)
Milena Flores (3)
American Airlines Arena
8–14
23
July 21
Utah
W 76-65
Sheri Sam (23)
Sheri Sam (9)
Debbie Black (7)
American Airlines Arena
9–14
24
July 22
@ Cleveland
L 47-76
Askamp Cassidy (7)
Sharon Manning (6)
Black Cassidy Flores Manning Webb (2)
Gund Arena
9–15
25
July 26
@ Detroit
L 62-78
Milena Flores (10)
Marlies Askamp (10)
Marlies Askamp (4)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
9–16
26
July 28
@ Lynx
L 44-68
Sheri Sam (8)
Marlies Askamp (7)
Milena Flores (4)
Target Center
9–17
27
July 30
@ Seattle
W 64-51
Sheri Sam (17)
Kristen Rasmussen (9)
Black Colleton (5)
KeyArena
10–17 :
August: 3–2 (Home: 3–0; Road: 0–2)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
28
August 1
@ Portland
L 50-54
Sheri Sam (23)
Marlies Askamp (10)
Black Ford (3)
Rose Garden
10–18
29
August 2
@ Sacramento
L 55-73
Cassidy Flores Sam (8)
Shantia Owens (4)
Umeki Webb (4)
ARCO Arena
10–19
30
August 4
Charlotte
W 60-50
Sheri Sam (21)
Kristen Rasmussen (8)
Sheri Sam (4)
American Airlines Arena
11–19
31
August 6
New York
W 57-41
Sheri Sam (19)
Marlies Askamp (10)
Black Colleton Rasmussen Sam (2)
American Airlines Arena
12–19
32
August 9
Orlando
W 68-64
Sheri Sam (24)
Marlies Askamp (15)
Debbie Black (6)
American Airlines Arena
13–19 :

### Season standings

| Eastern Conference | W | L | PCT | Conf. | GB |
| New York Liberty $^x$ | 20 | 12 | .625 | 14–7 | – |
| Cleveland Rockers $^x$ | 17 | 15 | .531 | 13–8 | 3.0 |
| Orlando Miracle $^x$ | 16 | 16 | .500 | 13–8 | 4.0 |
| Washington Mystics $^x$ | 14 | 18 | .438 | 13–8 | 6.0 |
| Detroit Shock $^o$ | 14 | 18 | .438 | 10–11 | 6.0 |
| Miami Sol $^o$ | 13 | 19 | .406 | 9–12 | 7.0 |
| Indiana Fever $^o$ | 9 | 23 | .281 | 7–14 | 11.0 |
| Charlotte Sting $^o$ | 8 | 24 | .250 | 5–16 | 12.0 |

## Statistics
### Regular Season

| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Sheri Sam | 31 | 27 | 29.2 | .387 | .292 | .670 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 12.8 |
| Katrina Colleton | 32 | 32 | 27.3 | .352 | .238 | .757 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 8.3 |
| Marlies Askamp | 32 | 32 | 27.2 | .407 | .500 | .684 | 7.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 7.8 |
| Debbie Black | 32 | 32 | 25.6 | .380 | .214 | .690 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| Shantia Owens | 31 | 16 | 19.5 | .389 | N/A | .537 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 4.2 |
| Kristen Rasmussen | 25 | 7 | 18.2 | .350 | .286 | .844 | 3.8 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 5.0 |
| Sharon Manning | 24 | 9 | 16.8 | .478 | .500 | .538 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 4.3 |
| Kisha Ford | 28 | 0 | 15.1 | .306 | .250 | .574 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 3.6 |
| Umeki Webb | 13 | 5 | 15.0 | .250 | .250 | .840 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 3.3 |
| Milena Flores | 32 | 0 | 14.8 | .304 | .295 | .619 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 3.5 |
| Jameka Jones | 21 | 0 | 11.1 | .263 | .200 | .722 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 3.3 |
| Tanja Kostic | 5 | 0 | 9.2 | .333 | N/A | .500 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| Jamie Cassidy | 22 | 0 | 8.0 | .364 | .500 | .698 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 3.4 |
$^‡$Waived/Released during the season $^†$Traded during the season $^≠$Acquired during the season