2007 WNBA Season: • Appeared in all 34 games (three starts) in her first season in Phoenix
• One of only five Mercury players to appear in every game this season
• Phoenix’s highest-scoring reserve at 5.4 points per game, added 1.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 14.4 minutes
• Shot 34.2 percent from three-point range (26th-WNBA)
• Made three consecutive starters (two career starts entering 2007) in place of the injured Cappie Pondexter (June 20-24)
• Averaged 9.0 points, 2.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in three starts
• Made first start of season, third of career, on June 20 vs. Washington

2006 WNBA Season:
• Played in all 34 games for the Sting for the second time in her three-year career (no starts)
• Enjoyed her best statistical season, averaging 8.9 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists (all career bests)
• Nailed a career-best 64 three-point field goals (3rd-WNBA) on 167 attempts (3rd-WNBA)
• Connected on a personal-best 38.3 percent of three-pointers (11th-WNBA)
• Scored a career-high 18 points at US Airways Center vs. the Mercury on August 3, 2006

2005 WNBA Season:
• Appeared in 27 games (two starts, the only two starts of her career) as a second-year reserve with the Sting
• Averaged 2.4 points and 1.1 rebounds in 8.4 minutes
• First career start came August 12, 2005
• Missed four games with right knee tendinitis

2004 WNBA Season:
• Selected by the Charlotte Sting with the 18th overall pick (second round) of the 2004 WNBA Draft
• Saw action in all 34 games as a rookie with the Sting
• Recorded double figures in scoring in two games
• Led the team in scoring with a then-career-high 15-point effort June 3 at Connecticut

College:
• All-time leading scorer in Big Ten Conference history (male or female) with 2,919 points
• Point total is ninth all-time in NCAA history
• Averaged 21.9 points and 4.2 rebounds in four-year career
• Awarded prestigious NCAA VIII award for 2004 honoring eight student athletes from all sports for their athletic and academic achievements
as well as leadership and community service
• AP All-American First Team (2004, 2003)
• Three-time Kodak All-American (2004, 2003, 2002)
• First player in Penn State history to be a three-time Kodak All-American
• Two-time Big Ten Player of the Year (2004, 2003)
• Holds the Penn State single-season scoring record set in 2002 (872)
• All-Big Ten First Team in each of her four seasons
• Led Big Ten in scoring in each of her first three seasons
• 2004 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year for women’s basketball

International/National Team:
• Spent the 2007-08 offseason playing for Spartak Moscow
• Spent the 2006-07 offseason playing for Kosice in Slovakia
• Member of the 2002 USA World Championship for Young Women Qualifying Team that won a gold medal

Full name is Kelly Anne Mazzante

Daughter of Julia and Louis Mazzante

Older brother Louis played baseball at Old Dominion

Penn State retired her No. 13 jersey on December 14, 2004

Scored the third-most points in Pennsylvania girls’ basketball history

Named the Associated Press Big School Player of the Year as a senior

Hosted a basketball camp for girls in her hometown in the fall of 2005

During the 2004-05 offseason, completed her degree at Penn State in advertising/public relations

Selected by Charlotte in the second round (18th overall) of the 2004 WNBA Draft on April 17, 2004... Selected by the Mercury (fifth overall) in the 2007 Charlotte dispersal draft on Jan. 8, 2007.