MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Last night in the Chicago Sky's 93-85 loss to the Minnesota Lynx, Gonzaga alum Courtney Vandersloot broke her own year-old WNBA single season assists record. The ninth-year WNBA veteran had five assists in the first quarter to tie her mark of 258 and finished the game with 10; her total this season is 263 with four games to go in the regular season.

"If it wasn't for [my teammates], I would be getting zero assists," Vandersloot told the Sky. "So, you know, I'm lucky to have a lot of threats on this team. People just make baskets. It's my job to give it to them; they just do the rest."
 
In WNBA history, 200 assists in a single season has only be achieved 17 times. Vandersloot has led the WNBA in assists and has recorded at least 200 assists each of the last three seasons. Currently, she averages 9.1 assists per game, 3.1 assists better than the next closest player. She's recorded double-figure assists in 10 games this season with at least eight assists in 23 games on the year.
 
In the 2011 WNBA Draft, she became the first Bulldog player in school history to be drafted in the first round of the WNBA, as she was the third overall pick, taken by the Chicago Sky.
 
Vandersloot, the three-time West Coast Conference Player of the Year, was also named to the Associated Press All-America Team second team and State Farm Coaches' All-America Basketball team, USBWA All-America, the Nancy Lieberman Award winner as the top point guard in the nation, and is the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award winner.