University of Missouri Athletics

Amanda Lassiter was the first Missouri women’s basketball player to be chosen in the WNBA Draft, selected in the 2001 first round by the Houston Comets. She played professionally for six seasons. At Mizzou, she led the Tigers to a 40-22 record and the 2001 NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the second time in school history and the first time since 1982. She was chosen to all-America teams by Real Sports Magazine, Full Court Press Magazine and Women’s Basketball News Service in 2001. Women’sCollegeHoops.com also named her to its all-underrated team that year. She was Mizzou’s first first-team all-Big 12 Conference selection in 2001 and was third-team all-Big 12 in 2000, when she was also the league’s newcomer of the year. After her two years at MU, she was in the school’s career top-10 in three-pointers attempted and made, blocked shots, points per game, three-point FG percentage and scoring. Lassiter set single-game school records for steals (11) and blocked shots (7). The 11 steals were also a Big 12 Conference record. She was Missouri’s leading scorer in both her junior (13.9 ppg) and senior (19.1) seasons. Lassiter led the team in assists, blocks and steals in her junior season, and led then team in blocks and steals as a senior. She came to Mizzou from San Francisco, California.