Shannon ‘Pee Wee’ Johnson (San Antonio 2004-06)

WNBA	ABL	USA Basketball	Overseas	College	High School	Personal
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NO: 14
POS: Guard
HGT: 5-7
DOB: August 18, 1974
SCHOOL: South Carolina ‘96

WNBA TRANSACTIONS

May 3, 1999	Signed by the WNBA and allocated to the Orlando Miracle; following the 2002 season, the Mohegan Sun purchased the Miracle, relocated the team and renamed it the Connecticut Sun.
January 28, 2004	Traded to San Antonio.
April 21, 2006	Signed a contract with San Antonio
March 6, 2007	Signed as an unrestricted free agent with Detroit.
March 7, 2008	Signed as a free agent with Houston.
February 23, 2009	Signed as a free agent with Seattle.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Three-time All-WNBA second team (1999, 2000 and 2002)
Four-time All-Star (1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003)
Finished among the top 5 in the league for assists five times (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008).
In 2003, averaged 12.4 ppg and 5.8 apg (4th in the W) in guiding the Sun to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Sun posted an 18-16 record on the season, marking the most victories in the team’s five-year history.
Averaged double-digit scoring in each of her first five years in the league, including a career-best 16.1 ppg to go with 5.3 apg in 2002.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS

YEAR	TM	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	PCT	3P	3PA	PCT	FT	FTA	PCT	ORB	DRB	TRB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS/AVG
1999	ORL	32	32	1147	151	338	.447	40	110	.364	105	153	.686	44	106	150/4.7	141	54	12	121	79	447/14.0
2000	ORL	32	32	1126	122	309	.395	30	90	.333	107	144	.743	53	102	155/4.8	169	58	7	102	83	381/11.9
2001	ORL	26	22	785	90	245	.367	38	104	.365	84	111	.757	15	62	77/3.0	68	34	6	54	66	302/11.6
2002	ORL	31	31	1110	157	389	.404	21	77	.273	164	214	.766	49	80	129/4.2	163	51	7	98	78	499/16.1
2003	CON	34	34	1107	138	319	.433	19	73	.260	125	171	.731	39	95	134/3.9	196	44	3	107	77	420/12.4
2004	SAS	31	30	954	89	234	.380	27	76	.355	82	107	.766	14	68	82/2.6	136	48	4	99	69	287/9.3
2005	SAS	34	33	1104	88	241	.365	28	90	.311	113	136	.831	17	74	91/2.7	158	46	5	113	78	317/9.3
2006	SAS	32	32	875	104	256	.406	32	91	.352	78	97	.804	31	64	95/3.0	117	60	5	75	78	318/9.9
2007	DET	33	8	559	57	166	.343	29	70	.414	50	61	.820	18	43	61/1.8	56	20	2	40	68	193/5.8
2008	HOU	33	32	1014	80	211	.379	31	97	.320	62	83	.747	31	76	107/3.2	168	52	9	79	84	253/7.7
2009	SEA	34	6	618	36	107	.336	18	61	.295	47	55	.855	14	48	62/1.8	52	27	7	52	56	137/4.0
Career		352	292	10399	1112	2815	.395	313	939	.333	1017	1332	.764	325	818	1143/3.2	1424	494	67	940	816	3554/10.1

WNBA POSTSEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Helped four teams to the WNBA playoffs, including in 2007 when Detroit advanced to the WNBA Finals after defeating New York (2-1) in the conference semis and Indiana (2-1) in the Eastern Conference Finals, before falling to Phoenix (3-2) in the best-of-five Finals.

WNBA POSTSEASON STATISTICS

YEAR	TM	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	PCT	3P	3PA	PCT	FT	FTA	PCT	ORB	DRB	TRB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTSAVG
2000	ORL	3	3	119	6	27	.222	2	13	.154	4	8	.500	4	17	21/7.0	14	5	2	7	9	18/6.0
2003	CON	4	4	131	13	29	.448	5	10	.500	14	18	.778	3	9	12/3.0	19	7	1	11	11	45/11.3
2007	DET	11	1	186	19	53	.358	9	26	.346	10	13	.769	8	17	25/2.3	28	5	2	13	13	57/5.2
2009	SEA	3	0	39	3	9	.333	1	5	.200	0	0		0	5	5/1.7	3	3	0	6	8	7/2.3
Career		21	8	475	41	118	.347	17	54	.315	28	39	.718	15	48	63/3.0	64	20	5	37	41	127/6.0

ABL REGULAR SEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Began her professional career with the ABL Columbus Quest.
Posted four rebounds and two assists in 15 minutes of action during the 1998 ABL All-Star Game and was named 1998 All-ABL honorable mention.
With Johnson on the roster, the Quest posted an overall record of 78-20 (.796) in its two-plus years of existence.

ABL REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS

YEAR	G/S	FGM-FGA	PCT	3PM-3PA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AST	BLK	STL
1998-99	14/-	66- 160	.413	23- 61	.377	56- 72	.778	82/ 5.9	211/ 15.1	55	5	24
1997-98	44/ 44	153- 357	.429	44- 127	.346	134- 169	.793	210/ 4.8	484/ 11.0	215	13	87
1996-97	40/ 40	140- 271	.517	69- 144	.479	60- 74	.811	157/ 3.9	409/ 10.2	151	6	69
TOTALS	98/ 84	359- 788	.456	136- 332	.410	250- 315	.794	449/ 4.6	1104/ 11.3	421	24	180

ABL POSTSEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Helped lead the Quest capture the 1997 and 1998 ABL titles.

USA BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS

Providing a spark off the bench at the 2004 Olympics, Johnson averaged 6.1 ppg. and just under two assists a contest. She scored 21 points against host Greece in the medal quarterfinals, but it was her play against Australia that will be remembered. In a game that had been tight, she scored the final four points of the third quarter to give the Americans a 52-50 edge going into the fourth quarter and then topped that with six more in the fourth quarter. In scoring 10 of her 12 points in the final 10:31 of the contest, Johnson helped assure the third consecutive gold medal for the United States at the Olympic Games (8-0).
Prior to the Olympics, helped the USA to a 3-0 exhibition record.
Helped the 2004 USA National Team to a 13-0 record as the USA defeated teams from Cuba, Europe, Japan and a squad of collegiate all-stars.
Member of the 2002 USA World Championship Team, where she averaged 16.0 ppg in the three medal round games in route to gold and a 9-0 record; named to the five-member 2002 All-FIBA World Championship Team.
Prior to the 2002 Worlds, helped lead the USA to a 4-0 record at the Opals World Challenge against Australia, Brazil and France, and was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Defensive Player.
Recorded nine points, four assists, two steals and two rebounds in the 2002 USA National Team’s 100-59 exhibition game victory over the WBCA All-Stars.
First played for the USA National Team in 1998 against host Australia in the Opals Goldmark Cup (2-3 record) and followed that up with a spot on the 1999 USA National Team that went 4-1 on its Winter European Tour.
Participated in the 1999 and 2002 USA National Team spring training camps, and during the 1999 camp she helped the USA claim a 111-59 exhibition win over Germany in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Named as an alternate for the 1998 USA World Championship and 2000 U.S. Olympic teams.
Johnson also helped USA Basketball teams capture gold medals at the 1997 World University Games, 1996 R. William Jones Cup and 1993 U.S. Olympic Festival, in addition to earning a bronze medal at the 1995 Jones Cup.

USA BASKETBALL STATISTICS

TEAM	G/S	FGM-FGA	PCT	3PM-3PA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AT	BK	ST
2004 OLY	8/0	18-46	.391	4-11	.364	9- 9	1.000	20/ 2.5	49/ 6.1	15	1	11
2004 OLYx	3/3	3-10	.300	2- 5	.400	1- 2	.500	6/ 2.0	9/ 3.0	3	0	1
2004 WNT	12/11	32- 64	.500	5- 14	.357	16- 21	.762	20/ 1.7	85/ 7.1	55	2	20
2002 WC	9/0	29- 61	.475	5- 18	.278	19- 24	.792	15/ 1.7	82/ 9.1	18	1	13
2002 WCx (OWC)	4/2	12- 31	.387	6- 14	.429	7- 10	.700	11/ 2.8	37/ 9.3	13	2	9
2002 WNT v WBCA	1/0	4- 6	.667	1- 1	1.000	0- 0	.—	2/ 2.0	9/ 9.0	4	0	2
1999 WNT v GER	1/0	1- 4	.250	0- 2	.000	0- 0	.—	3/ 3.0	2/ 2.0	5	0	3
1999 WNT ET	5/0	9- 22	.409	3- 9	.333	8- 10	.800	5/ 1.0	29/ 5.8	8	3	7
1998 WNT GC	5/0	7- 14	.500	1- 2	.500	10- 13	.769	9/ 1.8	25/ 5.0	5	0	5
1997 WUG	6/0	4- 8	.500	0- 3	.000	6- 8	.750	8/ 1.3	14/ 2.3	15	0	10
1996 JCUP	9/0	16- 27	.593	4- 8	.500	7- 13	.538	18/ 2.0	43/ 4.8	18	0	18
1995 JCUP	7/2	10- 19	.526	1- 6	.167	9- 11	.818	7/ 1.0	30/ 4.3	9	1	6
1993 USOFS	4/4	9- 20	.450	2- 3	.667	5- 8	.625	15/ 3.8	25/ 6.3	12	2	4
Totals	77/25	161- 343	.469	37- 101	.366	102- 136	.750	143/ 1.9	461/ 6.0	191	12	112

JCUP=R. William Jones Cup
OLY=Olympic Games
OLYx=pre-Olympic exhibition games
OWC= (Australia) Opals World Challenge
USOFS=U.S. Olympic Festival South Team
WC=World Championship
WNT=USA Basketball Women’s Senior National Team
WUG=World University Games

OVERSEAS HIGHLIGHTS

Played her final two EuroCup seasons for Ibiza (Spain) and averaged 8.2 ppg and 1.5 apg in 2008-09 and posted 18.5 ppg, 5.7 rpg and 2.6 in her final campaign in 2009-10 as her team fell to WBC Dynamo in the Sweet 16.
Averaged team-highs of 19.9 ppg and 4.0 apg for Sweet 16 finisher Umana Reyer Venezia (Italy) in nine EuroCup games in 2007-08.
Averaged 12.0 ppg and 4.7 apg for Wisla Can-Pack (Poland) during the 2004-05 EuroLeague campaign. Wisla fell to WBC Dynamo in the Sweet 16.
Competed the 2003-04 season for WBC Moscow Dynamo (Russia), and averaged 16.4 ppg and 4.3 apg as Dynamo capped the year with a third-place finish in the EuroCup.
Played two seasons (2001-02 and 2002-03) for Ros Casares (Spain). In 2001-02 she led Ros Casares in scoring (14.0 ppg), assists (2.5 apg) and steals (3.1 spg), and ranked second in rebounds (5.8 rpg) in 12 EuroLeague games.
Also competed professionally in Turkey for Fenerbahce in 1999-2000.

COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS

During her four years, South Carolina compiled a 59-50 record (.541),
Upon completion of her eligibility, Johnson held South Carolina career records for free throws made (478) and free throws attempted (680), also ranked on USC career charts second in points (2,230) and 3-point field goal percentage (.382), third in steals (260) and fifth in assists (467); also scored a South Carolina record 50 points in a single game versus Appalachian State (1/31/96).
As a senior, ranked second among 1996 NCAA Division I leaders in scoring (24.7 ppg) and fourth in 3-point field goals made (2.9 3pt FGM.) and ranked 10th among 1995 NCAA Division I leaders in scoring (23.9 ppg) as a junior.
Named to the 1996 College Sports Magazine and Women’s Basketball News Service All-American second team, AP All-America third team ad WBCA All-America honorable mention.
A South Carolina Hall of Fame Inductee
Listed on the 1994, 1995 and 1996 All-SEC first teams.
Selected as the 1995 South Carolina Female Amateur Athlete of the Year and 1999 South Carolina Female Professional Athlete of the Year.

COLLEGE STATISTICS

YEAR	G	FGM-FGA	PCT	3PM-3PA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AST	STL
1996	28	238- 544	.438	82- 202	.406	133- 179	.743	167/ 6.0	691/ 24.7	113	74
1995	27	214- 497	.431	64- 182	.352	154- 227	.678	172/ 6.4	646/ 23.9	138	57
1994	27	231- 506	.457	44- 111	.396	128- 187	.684	160/ 5.9	634/ 23.5	133	64
1993	27	89- 212	.420	18- 50	.360	63- 87	.724	98/ 3.6	259/ 9.6	83	65
Totals	109	772-1759	.439	208- 545	.382	478- 680	.703	597/ 5.5	2230/20.5	467	260

HIGH SCHOOL

Graduated from Hartsville High School in 1992.
Won state championships in 1990 and 1992.

PERSONAL

Born in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Daughter of Robert Brockington and Jo-Ann Bennett, the second oldest of six children, and has three sisters, Stacey, Shaquetta and Shaquanda Bennett and two brothers, Shaquan and Savion Bennett.
Earned her nickname “Pee-Wee” in the sixth grade because she was the shortest player on her volleyball team.
Graduated from South Carolina with a degree in retailing.
Has spent time coaching at the collegiate level.
Resigned after five years as head coach at Coker College for Nike’s W.I.N (Women In Nike) program in April 2020.