However, they have not welcomed any children to date. She was born on Tuesday, September 05, , in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father is a real estate developer. She has a brother named Gene and a sister named Lizzie. Her sister, Lizzie was born deaf and blind and was also unable to speak and has cerebral palsy and autism.
Her brother played college football as a tight end, first at Duke, then at Middle Tennessee. She had a great problem with her height since her childhood. Her mother is 6 ft. Also, she was humiliated in her class because she was already 6 ft. Elena has been playing basketball since she was in school and was very much perceived, acknowledged, and granted by various organizations.
She is extremely near her senior sister Lizzie, who is experiencing cerebral paralysis and is visually impaired and hard of hearing.
The U. Delle Donne is the sixth gold medalist hailing from Delaware. She scored a league-high She received 38 of 39 first place votes. During the regular season, Delle Donne scored a career-high 45 points in an overtime win against the Atlanta Dream, while making a WNBA record, 19 consecutive free throws. Delle Donne inherited her 6'5" 1. Her childhood was marked by a struggle to come to terms with her unusual height. According to a ESPN story, her first memory was going on a shopping trip when she was three years old and hearing other shoppers tell her mother that an 8-year-old should not be using a pacifier.
In third grade, her class was assigned to measure themselves using lengths of paper; she "was humiliated" when her paper extended well beyond those of her classmates. Within two years of that incident, a doctor wanted to start her on injections to stunt her growth; her mother refused. By the time she was in eighth grade, she was already 6'0" 1. Additionally, according to the same ESPN piece, Delle Donne had to come to terms with having "a body that could do a great many things that the body of her older sister, Lizzie, couldn't.
The regular season had Delle Donne playing only 16 games due to a flare-up of Lyme disease, averaging less than 19 minutes in the final seven games. Eventually she rose up during the playoffs, helping the Sky defeat the Atlanta Dream in the first round, scoring 34 points and a game winning shot with 8. However, Delle Donne was elbowed while going for a rebound in the Atlanta series, suffering a back injury that reduced her play time in the following round against the Indiana Fever.
Delle Donne played only 10 minutes in the first game, before taking medication to play 68 minutes and score 45 points over the final two games.
While Delle Donne was considered for the U. She's 6—2 and my dad is 6—6, so she understood. She was like, "I'm telling you, one day you are going to realize how beautiful your height is.
Be your own person. Delle Donne led her team in scoring in 22 regular season games during her senior season, as well as in rebounds in 12 games.
She scored more than 30 points on five occasions, leading her team to a 27—3 regular season record entering CAA conference tournament play. She was one of twelve players to be invited to the event. Delle Donne scored 22 points in her debut against fellow rookie Brittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury. The Sky went on to win the game, — She missed the game, however, due to a concussion.
After the All-Star break, Delle Donne returned to action, and continued to play at a high level. The Sky qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, earning the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Delle Donne was rewarded with the Rookie of the Year award. In , Delle Donne signed endorsement deals with Nike and DuPont, a science company which is based in her hometown Wilmington, Delaware. In , Delle Donne signed a representation agreement with Octagon.
As a junior, Delle Donne led the nation in scoring, finishing the season with an average of Her prowess attracted many fans to the Blue Hens games, with attendance rising percent from the previous year. On February 16, , Delle Donne scored 42 points in a win over Hofstra, eclipsing the 2, point mark for her career.
Delle Donne left in the middle of the night, quietly. She waited until her roommate, who was also a basketball player, fell asleep. She had a friend from home pick her up. By the time she arrived at her parents' house in Delaware, it was 7 a. Her mother opened the door and said, "What are you doing here? Delle Donne enjoys her family time, hanging out with sister Lizzie. Let me step back. Do I really want to do this, or do I want to be something else?
Her coach, Geno Auriemma, called immediately. He told her mother to bring Elena back to school. He'd seen this before -- homesickness, nerves. But Elena's mother knew something about this was different. They were in for one awkward summer. One afternoon, Elena rode her bike the few blocks to the coach's house. They sat and talked for hours.
He suggested she come back to school, no basketball. She stuck with her no. Auriemma seemed sad. She said, "Geno, she's not going to play for you. Let her go home. Auriemma had been so eager to coach her. Can you blame him for being upset about losing a player with those abilities? The way she'd linger in the air while taking a 3-point shot, the way she'd cut and glide around the floor.
People had not seen this in the past. Delle Donne spent the rest of her summer ignoring the rumors about what was wrong -- that she was pregnant, that she was sick, that she was on drugs.
She spent her time with Lizzie, who doesn't know that Elena plays basketball and who had no questions about her motivations. That summer of , one more thing happened that would change the course of Elena's life. She began getting terrible migraines, and her muscles ached so much she couldn't get out of bed.
One doctor suggested it was mono; others thought it was depression that was either the impetus for or the culmination of her dropping out of UConn. Her mother took her for some blood work.
She had Lyme disease. A tick, a bug that tops out at 10 millimeters, felled Delle Donne, which is as stark a lesson on size as we have here. She went on antibiotics for 20 days, then said she felt fine, unaware that she was suffering from a chronic illness. A few days after her talk with Auriemma, she enrolled at Delaware, less than 30 minutes from home and less than 30 minutes from Lizzie. Safely matriculated in a not-very-basketball school, she joined the volleyball team, which might have been her first clue that, yes, she did choose sports, that, yes, it was in her.
She began to relax into this new life, to understand that she was a mind and a soul, not just a body that found its way onto a basketball court out of a sense of might-as-well. But she kept remembering one moment over the summer. She had gone to visit Lizzie at her school, and a woman named Dawn came to greet her.
Dawn was a basketball fan with cerebral palsy who used a wheelchair. She said, "Elena, do everything you can with your abilities, just like we do.
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