Rehema Stephens Explained

Rehema Stephens
Position:Guard
Birth Date:28 December 1969
High School:Oakland Tech
(Oakland, California)
College:UCLA
Draft League:WNBA
Draft Year:1998
Draft Round:3
Draft Pick:25
Draft Team:Los Angeles Sparks
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Rehema Stephens (born December 28, 1969) is a former professional basketball player for the Sacramento Monarchs.

She played basketball at Oakland Technical High School, making all-league in 1985, 1987, and 1988. In 1986-87 she was named first team All-State and third team Parade All American. In college, she played one season for the University of Colorado and three seasons for the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA she led the Pac-10 Conference in scoring in her first and second seasons; in her second season she was the fifth-highest scorer in the country. She reached 1,000 points faster than any other Lady Bruin and is still the school's second-highest career scorer in women's basketball.[1]

She graduated from UCLA with a degree in psychology, then turned pro. She played basketball in Australia and Greece before joining the Monarchs. Retiring from basketball after one season, she has since worked as a teacher, Realtor, radio host and author.[2]

Career statistics

WNBA career statistics

Regular Season

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1998| style="text-align:left;" | Sacramento|8||0||10.1||26.8||16.7||50.0||1.3||0.5||0.3||0.1||1.4||3.3 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team|8||0||10.1||26.8||16.7||50.0||1.3||0.5||0.3||0.1||1.4||3.3

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1989–90| style="text-align:left;" | UCLA|29||-||-||39.9||20.0||70.1||6.4||1.4||1.6||0.2||-||20.1 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 1990–91| style="text-align:left;" | UCLA|28||-||-||44.2||39.2||70.3||8.0||2.3||2.0||0.4||-||25.3|-| style="text-align:left;" | 1991–92| style="text-align:left;" | UCLA|30||-||-||39.7||19.1||82.0||7.7||1.8||1.5||0.6||-||19.8|-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|87||-||-||41.3||30.2||73.9||7.4||1.9||1.7||0.4||-||21.7 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Stephens Earns Share of Attention : Bruins: She downplays showboat label, but her intense play leads UCLA.. Thomas. Pete. March 26, 1992. Los Angeles Times. 19 February 2016.
  2. News: Rehema Stephens ’87. Oakland Tech Centennial. 19 February 2016.
  3. Web site: Rehema Stephens College Stats. Sports-Reference. April 11, 2024.