NEW YORK – For the second time in her career, former Zag Courtney Vandersloot picked up All-WNBA Second Team honors, as announced by the WNBA.
 
This season, the eight-year veteran set WNBA records for assists per game (8.6) and total assists (258) while averaging a career-high 12.5 points per game for the Chicago Sky. Vandersloot finished the season averaging 1.5 assists more per game than the next closest player (Sue Bird, 7.1 apg.), and she recorded double-figure assists on 10 occasions including a career-high 15 assists twice.
 
Vandersloot finished the 2018 season with eight double-doubles and became just the seventh player in WNBA history to record a triple-double with 13 points, 10 rebounds and a career-best 15 assists against the Dallas Wings on July 20.
 
The Kent, Wash. native was joined on the All-WNBA Second Team by Candace Parker (Sparks), Skylar Diggins-Smith (Wings), Maya Moore (Minnesota Lynx) and Brittney Griner (Phoenix Mercury).
 
Vandersloot became the first Bulldog in program history to be drafted in the first round of the 2011 WNBA Draft as she was the third overall pick, taken by the Chicago Sky.
 
During her Gonzaga career from 2007-11, Vandersloot was a three-time West Coast Conference Player of the Year, and she was also named to the Associated Press All-America Team second-team, the State Farm Coaches' All-America Basketball team and was USBWA All-America. She was also the Nancy Lieberman Award winner as the top point guard in the nation as well as the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award Winner.