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A Indiana Fever occurs as agency women's basketball team that plays in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Their number 1 year of play around the WNBA was in 2000. A team is the sister team of the Indiana Pacers.

Uniforms: At personal, white by having red, dark blue & yellowness unofficially. Fever logotype text on the chest. On tour, dark blue by using red & yellowness unofficially. State title within red letters trimmed by using white on the chest.

Franchise history
Since their maiden year around 2000, the Indiana Fever will have a convenient begin as a WNBA franchise. In their 1st both seasons, it were coached by women's basketball legends Anne Donovan & Nell Fortner. Lead by center Kara Wolters, their inaugural campaign was the losing of these however it got high expectations when drafting University of Tennessee star Tamika Catchings in 2001. Even so, Catchings was wounded for a entire year & a Fever missed the playoffs eventually once more.

A 2002 year proved to be a jailbreak season for each a Fever & Tamika Catchings. Catchings proved to exist as one of a virtually all versatile players in the WNBA, well winning Rookie of the Year honors when well as making a WNBA All-Star team. A Fever would make their number 1 playoff appearance around franchise history that month.

A seasons as a result a 2002 campaign were seasons of transition for the Fever. A team added Olympian Natalie Williams and Charlotte Sting star Kelly Miller before the 2003 year. Despite lofty expectations, a team failed to produce a playoffs around 2003, leading to the resignation of original coach and GM Nell Fortner. Lead by freshly coach Brian Winters, it did non produce a playoffs around 2004, but around 2005, it earned their number 1 playoff series convert a New York Liberty, the team that experienced defeated the children in the number 1 spherical of the 2002 playoffs.

Players of note
Hall of Famers

Current stars
Tully Bevilaqua Tamika Catchings Deanna Jackson Kelly Miller Kelly Schumacher Natalie Williams

Retired numbers
none

Not to be forgotten
Niele Ivey Nadine Malcolm Nikki McCray Olympia Scott-Richardson Jurgita Streimikyte Alicia Thompson Stephanie White Rita Williams Kara Wolters

Coaches and others
Head Coaches: Anne Donovan (2000) (Hall of Famer) Nell Fortner (2001-2003), now coaches a women's team at Auburn University Brian Winters (2004-Present)

Indiana Fever
Official site from WNBA.com with news, scores, schedule, information about players and coaches, statistics, tickets, merchandise.

Slam Sports - Indiana Fever
Attendance, team statistics, schedule, game logs.

IndyStar.com - Indiana Fever
Local coverage of the WNBA team from the Indianapolis Star.

USA Today - Indiana Fever
Roster, schedule/results, statistics, arena/ticket information.

Washington Post Online: Fever
Roster, schedule/results, statistics.


Regional: North America: United States: Indiana: Recreation and Sports






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