Skylar Diggins-Smith

As of Oct. 9, 2020.

USA Basketball Notes

Gold Medals: 2012 FIBA 3x3 World Championship, 2011 World University Games, 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship, 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship.
Domestic Tournament: 2007 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival (gold).
Owns a 47-2 record in USA Basketball games played.
2017-20 USA National Team:
- Aided the 2019-20 USA National Team to a 11-1 record against six collegiate teams and six international opponents from Nov. 2019-Feb. 2020; averaged 7.3 ppg. and 3.4 apg.
- One of eight players who committed to participate in the USA's 2019-20 expanded training program as announced on July 27, 2019.
- Took part in the USA's training camp in April 2018 in Seattle, and helped the USA earn an 83-46 exhibition victory against China to close out the camp.
- Participated in the 2017 USA National Team training camp in Santa Barbara, California, and the 2018 camp in February in Columbus, South Carolina.
- Named as a finalist for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team on Jan. 25, 2016.
After claiming gold medals as a member of four USA Basketball junior squads, was called up to the USA National Team for its 2013 Oct. mini-camp in Las Vegas.
Was one of 16 finalists for the 2014 USA World Championship Team and helped the USA team earn a 3-0 exhibition record.
Teamed up with Bria Hartley, Chiney Ogwumike and Ann Strother on the 2012 USA Basketball 3x3 World Championship Team and helped the U.S. capture gold with a perfect 9-0 record at the inaugural FIBA 3x3 World Championship in Athens, Greece.
Member of the 2011 USA World University Games Team that finished with a 6-0 record and claimed gold in Shenzhen, China.
Member of the a 2009 USA Basketball Women's U19 World Championship Team that earned an 8-1 mark en route to the gold medal in Bangkok, Thailand; started all eight games played and averaged 11.6 ppg. and 3.0 rpg.
Member of the 2008 USA U18 National Team that went 5-0, won the gold medal at the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship and qualified the U.S. for the 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship; started all five games and averaged a USA second-best 10.8 ppg., a team-high 3.6 apg. and a team-high (tie) 2.0 spg.
Helped the USA White Team to a 5-0 record and gold medal at the 2007 USA Youth Development Festival.

Professional Notes

Drafted: No. 3 by the Tulsa Shock in 2013, which moved to Dallas ahead of the 2016 and rebranded as the Wings; traded to the Phoenix Mercury on Feb. 12, 2020.
All-WNBA first team: 2014.
All-WNBA second team: 2020
WNBA Most Improved Player: 2014.
WNBA All-Rookie Team: 2013.
WNBA All-Star Games: 2014, ,2017.
In 2020 with the Mercury, averaged 17.7 ppg. and 4.2 apg. in helping Phoenix to a 13-9 record and the second round of the WNBA playoffs.
Spent the 2019 season taking care of her newborn and did not compete.
Helped the Tulsa Shock/Dallas Wings advance to the 2015 and 2017 playoffs.
Suffered a torn ACL on June 28, 2015, and was sidelined for the remainder of the season; averaged 17.8 ppg. in nine games prior to the injury.
Named 2014 WNBA Most Improved Player after more than doubling her point production to 20.1 ppg., while also contributing 2.5 rpg. and 5.0 apg.

College Years

During her four years, helped Notre Dame to a 130-20 (.867) record, four NCAA Tournament appearances, including three Final Fours and one Sweet 16, a pair of Big East Conference regular season titles and the 2013 Big East Tournament crown.
Associated Press, WBCA, USBWA, John R. Wooden Award and SI.com All-America first team (2013).
Naismith, Wooden Award, Wade Trophy and Senior C.L.A.S.S. Award finalist (2013).
NCAA All-Final Four (2011, 2012), NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player (2011, 2012, 2013) and All-Regional (2011, 2012, 2013)
Big East Player of the Year (2012, 2013), All-Big East first team (2011, 2012, 2013) and second team (2010), Big East All-Tournament Team (2010, 2011, 2013) and Big East All-Freshman Team.

Personal

Born in her hometown of South Bend, Indiana.
Married former Notre Dame football player Daniel Smith in April 2017.
Daughter of Renee Scott and Tige Diggins and stepdaughter to Maurice Scott; has three brothers, Destyn Diggins, Maurice Scott, Jr. and Tige Diggins, Jr.; and one sister, Haneefah Davis.
Worked at ESPN during the summer of 2012.
Attended Washington High School (Ind.), where she finished her prep career with 2,790 points (25.9 ppg.), the third-highest girls' scoring total in Indiana history.
Gatorade National High School Player of the Year (2009).
Advanced to the state title game all four years, capturing the 2007 Indiana Class 4A crown.
Attended ESPNW retreats in 2010 & 2011 participating in panel discussions on future of women's athletics/mentorship with Lisa Leslie, Summer Sanders and Gretchen Bleier.

Social

Twitter: @SkyDigg4
Instagram: @SkyDigg4
Web: rocnation.com/sports/skylar-diggins

USA Basketball Statistics

TEAM	G/S	MIN/G	FGM-A	PCT	3PM-3A	PCT	FTM-A	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AST	TO	BLK	STL
2020 WNT	5/ 5	18.8	12- 29	.414	7- 16	.438	5- 6	.833	8/ 1.6	36/ 7.2	16	7	1	3
2019 WNT	7/ 0	20.1	18- 41	.439	12- 21	.571	3- 6	.500	17/ 2.4	51/ 7.3	25	7	4	9
2018 WNT	1/ 0	12.0	0- 2	.000	0- 1	.000	3- 4	.750	1/ 1.0	3/ 3.0	1	3	0	2
2014 WCx	3/ 0	15.0	6- 10	.600	0- 1	.000	3- 3	1.000	4/ 1.3	15/ 5.0	4	4	0	3
2011 WUG	6/ 6	24.5	28- 59	.475	6- 17	.353	12- 18	.667	13/ 2.2	74/ 12.3	29	18	3	20
2009 U19	8/ 8	23.1	33- 78	.423	9- 27	.333	18- 21	.857	24/ 3.0	93/ 11.6	15	6	1	9
2008 U18	5/ 5	23.2	22- 44	.500	4- 13	.308	6- 9	.667	16/ 3.2	54/ 10.8	18	9	0	10
2007 YDFW	5/ 2	20.2	12- 42	.286	2- 14	.143	17- 23	.739	25/ 5.0	43/ 8.6	16	11	4	10
Totals	40/26		131-305	.430	40-110	.364	67-90	.744	108/ 2.7	369/ 9.2	124	65	13	66