Candice Wiggins

Position:  Guard
Height: 5-11 / 180 cms.
Weight: 150 lbs. / 68 kgs.
WNBA Team: n/a
School: Stanford University '08

NOTE: As of January 22, 2008

USA Basketball Notes:

Gold Medals: 2007 FIBA U21 World Championship, 2007 PAn American Games, 2005 FIBA U19 World Championship, 2005 International Sports Invitational, 2004 FIBA Americas U18 Championship.

Bronze Medal: 2003 USA Youth Development Festival.

Honors: 2007 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year, July 2007 U.S. Olympic Committee Female Athlete of the Month, 2005 FIBA U19 World Championship All-Tournament Team.

• Listed as an alternate to the 2007 USA FIBA Americas Championship Team, traveled to Chile and trained with the squad prior to the tournament.
• Named to the 2007-08 USA Basketball Women's National Team on Sept. 7, 2007, and averaged 10.0 ppg. in aiding the USA to a 2-0 exhibition slate against the Australia National Team.
  
• Did double duty in 2007 for USA Basketball. Began training camp on June 12 with the USA U21 World Championship Team that earned a perfect 8-0 slate and the gold medal during the FIBA U21 World Championship in Moscow Region, Russia, also helped the USA U21 squad earn a 3-0 exhibition record against the French U21 National Team; returned from the U21 World on July 9 and joined the USA Pan American Games Team that concluded its gold medal run on July 24 with a 5-0 mark in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• For her efforts in aiding the U.S. to a pair of gold medals during July, was named the U.S. Olympic Committee's Female Athlete of the Month.
• Started seven of the USA's eight games at the U21 Worlds and averaged a team second best 13.1 ppg.
• Scored 31 points in the USA's closest contest, a 90-88 opening victory over eventual U21 silver medalist Australia, also tossed in a team-high 27 points against host Russia in the USA's semifinal victory.
• Started two of the three U21 exhibition contests and averaged 12.3 ppg. and 2.7 apg. during the team's training in Antibes, France.
• Started all five games at the ‘07 Pan Ams and averaged 6.0 ppg. and 2.0 apg.
• Member of the 2005 USA U19 World Championship Team that upended its competition by an average of 46.3 ppg. to claim the gold medal with an unblemished 8-0 record in Tunis, Tunisia.
• Named to the 2005 FIBA U19 World Championship All-Tournament Team, averaged 15.8 ppg., 2.1 apg. and 2.0 spg.
• Finished the U19 Worlds ranked among the 12-team field sixth for scoring and 3-point field goal percentage (.429), second for 3-point field goals made per game (2.25), seventh for field goal percentage (.571), tied for ninth for steals and 12th for assists.
• Scored in double digits seven times and three times had 20+ scoring games, including a USA U19 World Championship
  single game record of 28 points versus the Congo and 21 points each against Puerto Rico and Serbia & Montenegro.
• Posted a 5-1 record in exhibition play, including earning a 4-0 slate and the gold medal against U19 squads from Australia, China and Russia at the 2005 International Sports Invitational in San Diego. The team also went 1-1 against Hungary's U19 squad in a two-game exhibition series in Budapest, Hungary.
• Scored in double digits in four of the USA's six pre-U19 Worlds contests, including three games with 13 points apiece.
• Member of the 2004 USA U18 National Team that captured the gold medal at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Puerto Rico, rolled up a 5-0 record and qualified the U.S. for the 2005 FIBA U19 World Championship.
• Started all five games and averaged a team third best 15.2 ppg., while nabbing a USA high 4.0 spg.; scored in double digits four times, including 23 points in the gold medal game against Puerto Rico.
• Member of the 2003 USA Youth Development Festival West Team that finished with a 2-3 record and the bronze medal.
• Ranked fifth among Festival participants in scoring (15.4 ppg.) and ranked sixth in steals (10).

College Notes

• Currently (as of 1/7/08) averaging team highs of 18.2 ppg. and 2.9 apg., while adding 4.7 rpg. in leading the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal to a 12-3 mark.
• In 2006-07 helped lead the Cardinal to a 29-5 record, the Pac-10 regular season and tournament crowns and the NCAA Tournament second round; started 28 of 29 games played and averaged a team-best 16.9 ppg., while adding 4.1 apg., 3.3 apg. and 1.5 spg.
• Aided Stanford as a sophomore to a 26-8 slate, the Pac-10 regular season title and the 2006 NCAA Elite Eight; started all 34 games and averaged team-highs of 21.8 ppg., 3.5 apg. and 2.0 spg., while adding 4.8 rpg.
• As a freshman for the Stanford Cardinal in 2004-05, led the team to a 32-3 record and an NCAA Elite Eight appearance while averaging 17.5 ppg., 5.4 rpg., 2.8 apg. and 2.4 spg.
• Listed on the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Associated Press All-America second teams.
• Was a finalist for the 2006 and 2007 Wade Trophy and the 2007 Wooden Award.
• Named a 2005, 2006 and 2007 Kodak/WBCA All-America and Kodak/WBCA All-Region 8.
• Named the 2005 U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Co-Freshman of the Year and to the 2007 USBWA All-America Team.
• Named to the 2007 All-Pacific-10 Conference Team.
• Earned 2007 Pac-10 Tournament MVP and All-Tournament Team honors, averaged 21.7 ppg. in Stanford's three games.
• Named the 2006 Pac-10 Player of the Year.
• In 2005 became first freshman in Pac-10 history to earn the league's Player of the Year award, also nabbed the 2005
  Pac-10 Freshman of the Year honor.
• Earned the 2005 Pac-10 Tournament MVP award.
• Named the Bay Area's Most Dynamic Amateur Athlete of 2005 by KNTV-11 (NBC).
• As a sophoore became the 26th player in school history to score 1,000 points and was the second fastest Cardinal to do so (54 games).
• Finished the 2006-07 season ranked fifth among all NCAA Division I leaders for 3-point field goal percentage (44.1) and sixth for 3-pointers made per game (2.8); tied for the third-best single-game output of 3-point field goals made with eight versus USC (3/4/07) and had the ninth-best 3-point field goal percentage game with 88.9 (8-9 3pt FGs) in the same game.
• Posted career highs of 37 points versus Oregon (1/7/06), 16 rebounds versus UCLA (2/20/05), eight assists versus California (1/14/06) and eight 3-point field goals made versus USC (1/7/06).
• Ranked in 2005-06 fifth among all NCAA Division I leaders for scoring (21.8 ppg.).
  

Personal Notes:

• Born on Valentine's Day 1987 in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Daughter of Angela and the late Alan Wiggins, has one brother, Alan (21) and one sister, Cassandra (24).
• Father played for the San Diego Padres, brother recently completed his four-year collegiate basketball career at the University of San Francisco.
• Has post-basketball ambitions of writing or commentating.
• Favorite takeout food: P.F. Chang's: Mongolian beef and shrimp dumplings.
• If I could be a standout athlete in any sport it would be: volleyball.
• When I was five I wanted to be: an Olympian.
• If I could live in any city in the world it would be: New York.
• Favorite magazine: People, Cosmo.
• Always in my fridge: juice.
• One piece of clothing I can't live without: my sorority sweatshirt.
• Favorite non-basketball Olympian: Ogonna Nnamani (volleyball, USA).
• When not playing hoops: I can be found doing community service.
• Most people don't know: that I'm a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and I was born in Baltimore.