Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota
WNBA's Connecticut Sun  – No. 10
Shooting guard
Born	August 12, 1983 (1983-08-12) (age 26) Riga, Latvia
Nationality	Latvian
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg)
WNBA career	2009–present
Overseas career	1997–present
Profile	WNBA Info Page
WNBA Teams
Connecticut Sun (2009-present)
Overseas Teams
Dynamo Moscow CJM Bourges Basket USO Mondeville RTU/Klondaika TTT Rapa WBC Spartak Moscow Region

Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota (born August 12, 1983 in Riga) is a Latvian basketball player. She is a daughter of former VEF Rīga star player Andris Jēkabsons.

Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota played for Dynamo Moscow. She joined the club in 2006/2007 season after Ainārs Zvirgziņš was named head coach of the team. Before that she played for USO Mondeville and CJM Bourges Basket, both which are teams from France.

In 2007 Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota played for Latvia women's national basketball team in EuroBasket Women 2007. It was her second finals and for the second time she was among the EuroBasket top scorers finishing second behind Belgium's Ann Wauters averaging 17.2 points per game. She was also named in the EuroBasket Women 2007 all-tournament team.

At the 2008 Olympics she was fourth among top scorers averaging 15.8 points and also was second with 4.0 assists per game.

In 2009, she was signed as a free agent by the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association. She joined the team at the end of June and played in her first game on July 2 at Indiana.

[edit] Honors

• Named FIBA Europe Young Women’s Player of the Year in 2005 as a result of her remarkable EuroBasket Women performance
• Named EuroBasket Women 2005 2nd team.
• Named EuroBasket Women 2007 1st team.
• EuroCup Women winner with Dynamo Moscow in 2007.
• Named EuroBasket Women 2009 team.

[edit] External links

• Profile at EuroBasket Women 2007 page

Awards
Preceded by Jeļena Prokopčuka	Latvian Women's Sportspersonality of the year 2008	Succeeded by Incumbent

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