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  Michele Timms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michele Margaret Timms (born June 28, 1965), and better known plainly as Michele Timms, is an Australian basketball player who played for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association.
In addition to playing basketball, she has also parachuted off an airplane, played Australian rules football with her brothers, as well as cricket.
Timms began her professional basketball career in 1984 in Australia, where women's basketball is very popular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michele_Timms   (350 words)

  
 MERCURY: Chat Transcript: Michele Timms
Timms was introduced as the squad's assistant coach on Thursday, Feb. 10.
Timms also spent five seasons in a Phoenix uniform and is one of the most well-known players in franchise history.
Timms was an original member of the Mercury, joining Phoenix in the WNBA allotment draft in 1997.
www.wnba.com /mercury/news/timms_chat_050223.html   (1115 words)

  
 Women's Basketball: People
Michele Timms: We don't have a Title IX or anything like that, but there is definitely a defining moment when I was growing up.
Michele Timms: In her time, Sandy Brondello was one of the best shooters in the world.
Michele Timms: I think TJ (Tamicha Jackson) could really help this team, but I think she is more cut out as somebody coming off the bench, in a backup one or two role.
www.fullcourt.com /people/timms04.html   (7488 words)

  
 Print Article: Timms leaves lasting legacy on the WNBA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Former Australian basketball star Michele Timms will become only the second player in Women's National Basketball Association history to have her jersey retired when the Phoenix Mercury raise her No7 singlet on August 7.
Timms retired as the club's career leader in assists, assists per game, assists in a single season, career steals and steals in a season.
Timms, recently appointed a Mercury assistant coach, will have her old No7 singlet raised to the rafters of Phoenix's America West Arena in a ceremony before the team's clash with the Cleveland Rockers next month.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/07/31/1027926915682.html   (400 words)

  
 Phoenix Mercury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Led by early WNBA standouts Michele Timms and Jennifer Gillom and outspoken coach Cheryl Miller, they were one of the teams that participated in the first WNBA Playoffs.
While the Mercury experienced some internal turmoil after Miller's departure from the team, they made headlines again in 2004 with the drafting of Diana Taurasi, the most coveted pick in the history of the WNBA Draft.
With a cast that included hall-of-famer Nancy Lieberman, possible future hall-of-famers Michele Timms of Australia, and Jennifer Gillom, plus the energetic and hyper-active star Bridget Pettis, the Mercury reached the playoffs at various times during the late 1990s, including a trip to the WNBA Finals in 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenix_Mercury   (311 words)

  
 Jackson gets co-pilot to fly in the Storm
She was recruited by the Mercury to succeed Michele Timms, who retired at the end of last season.
Timms, back in Phoenix as a television and radio commentator, said yesterday that Veal had trimmed down and should be ready to play by the middle of next month.
She, too, was thrown in the deep end last season when Timms was injured but this year is likely to be taken along more quietly.
www.geocities.com /esteler/article2E.htm   (857 words)

  
 Cooper leads late rally to give Comets 74-69 OT win
Houston Comets' Cynthia Cooper, right, is fouled by Phoenix Mercury's Michelle Timms, center, as the Mercury's Michelle Griffiths (12) watches during overtime in Game 2 of the WNBA Championship series Saturday.
Michele Timms led the Mercury with 21 points but was held scoreless in the overtime.
Timms' three-point play with 7:24 to go in regulation gave Phoenix its largest lead of the game, 62-50.
www.freep.com /sports/basketball/qwnba30.htm   (694 words)

  
 Michele Landsberg biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Michele Landsberg is an award-winning Canadian writer, social activist and feminist who wrote a major column for the Toronto Star newspaper.
After graduating with a bachelors degree in English from the University of Toronto in 1962, she worked for The Globe and Mail, raised her family, freelanced, and joined Chatelaine as a staff writer/editor.
She joined the Toronto Star as a columnist in 1978, then wrote a weekly column for the Globe and Mail in the 1980s.
michele-landsberg.biography.ms   (186 words)

  
 Northern Territory Government of Australia website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Australian basketballer Michele Timms is the guest speaker at the 30th anniversary of the NT Sports Awards on 04 April at MGM Grand.
Timms' amazing record in basketball includes the title as the first Australian - male or female - to play professional basketball abroad when she represented Lotus Munchen in Germany for the 1989 and 1990 seasons.
Timms, the Women National Basketball League's (WNBL) all-time record holder in assists and steals, led the Australian team to its first ever Olympic basketball medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when the team won bronze.
www.nt.gov.au /ntg/nt_sports_awards.shtml   (453 words)

  
 MERCURY: Familiar Mercury Face Rejoins Organization
Michele Timms, the Phoenix Mercury career leader in assists, is returning to the WNBA franchise as an assistant coach, as announced today by Mercury Vice President/General Manager Seth Sulka.
Timms joins the staff of fellow Australian Carrie Graf, who begins her second season as Head Coach in 2005.
Prior to coming to the United States, Timms played professionally in her native Australia as well as in Germany, and was member of the 1996 and 2000 Australian Olympic Women’s Basketball teams.
www.wnba.com /mercury/news/timms_050210.html   (423 words)

  
 FIBA.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
AUSTRALIA - Michele Timms is taking on a new challenge in America as an assistant coach of the Phoenix Mercury - the team she played for in the inaugural WNBA season.
TIMMS - Ball size change was necessary, the world of women's basketball needed to be playing with the one universal ball.
TIMMS - I feel really lucky to have been part of Australia Women's basketball when it was at its peak in the early to mid '90s.
www.fiba.com /pages/en/news/latest_news_article.asp?r_act_news=5955&r_cat=8&page=1   (1806 words)

  
 Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
Michele Timms is that player - that player who manages to spark the soul of each one of her teammates - that player who single-handedly takes responsibility for rallying the spirit of her team, always with impeccable timing.
Whether she’s cracking jokes with her butt in the air during stretches or cheering encouragingly in the face of a rookie, Timmsy’s contagious energy is the Phoenix Mercury’s ignition.
For years, Timms and Cooper have been elbow-throwing rivals, and now their individual and collective success depends on their cooperation.
www.womenssportsfoundation.org /partners/feministmajstore_pins/athletes/article.html?record=40   (640 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Timms goes out a winner in last game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The Mercury's Michele Timms hit an open 23-footer with 7.5 seconds left, the final shot of a distinguished pro career that began in 1984, before a crowd of 14,177, the largest since the 1998 regular-season finale.
Timms had not played against Houston since June 3, 2000, an 80-62 win that still stands as the Mercury's only victory at the Compaq Center.
The Comets, with Cooper, beat Timms and the Mercury in the 1998 WNBA Finals, although Phoenix was up 1-0 and by 12 points with less than eight minutes remaining in Game 2.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketba/wnba/games/2001-08-14-pho-hou.htm   (586 words)

  
 Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Phoenix Mercury fall to Orlando Miracle despite late rally, 80-76
Orlando led by as many as 16 points in the second half, but Michele Timms led Phoenix's comeback with two late 3-pointers to cut the lead to 76-73 with 1:01 remaining.
Phoenix played the final 16:08 of the game without coach Cheryl Miller, who was ejected after being charged with two technical fouls when she argued a foul called against Maria Stepanova.
Timms hit a 3-pointer with 2:23 remaining to pull Phoenix within 74-68.
www.caller2.com /1999/june/22/today/sports_n/2250.html   (253 words)

  
 JS Online: Mercury 63, Shock 62   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Maria Stepanova had a career-high 20 points on 9-of-10 shooting for the Mercury, and Gillom and Michele Timms each finished with 14.
Timms capped the 14-4 run with a 3-pointer, and Phoenix went up 58-56 with 3:56 to play.
Ndiaye-Diatta tied it with a jumper, and Boyd shot Detroit into the lead at the 2:33 mark with a 15-footer from the baseline after an in-bounds pass from Ndiaye-Diatta.
www.jsonline.com /sports/buck/ap/jul01/ap-bkl-shock-mercu072601.asp?format=print   (310 words)

  
 NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Timms is one of Australia’s best-known basketballers and the premier female point-guard this country has ever seen.
Timms played 264 games for the Opals in her 14-year career.
Timms grew up in Melbourne and played her junior basketball for Bulleen.
www.nationals.basketball.net.au /FS_extra.asp?id=6364&OrgID=60   (590 words)

  
 JS Online: Mercury 80, Lynx 67   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Michele Timms and Jennifer Gillom each added 13 points, and Lisa Harrison scored 12.
Minnesota, which trailed by as many as 15 points in the opening half, went on an 11-point run early in the second half and cut the Mercury's lead to 37-33 with 16 minutes remaining.
Smith led the rally with a basket and three free throws, one resulting from a technical foul against Timms.
www.jsonline.com /sports/buck/ap/jul01/ap-bkl-mercury-lyn071401.asp?format=print   (219 words)

  
 Michele Timms - Official Website - Timmsy7.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Michele Timms today announced the members of her Inaugural Shoot For Your Dreams Basketball Academy
The Academy, which will start on March 1st 2004 after the expected birth of my first child, will be a 4 and a half-month commitment from Scholarship holders whom will attend 32 sessions with myself and Canberra Capital and Ex A.I.S Graduate Kate Cohen.
On August 14, 2001, with 7 seconds to go in her farewell game, Michele "Timmsy" Timms, number 7 for the Phoenix Mercury hit the final shot of her career.
timmsy7.com /portal/index.php?...&Itemid=63&op=page&SubMenu=   (148 words)

  
 August 30, 1998: If you've got game, who needs rapport?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
This one ended up with tingling good feelings all around and a 1-1 tie in the WNBA finals because the Mercury plummeted faster than in a Norwegian January, and the Comets did what they do better than any other club in the toddling league -- battled right down to the finish.
Just when Michele Timms dropped in a free throw to give Phoenix a 62-50 lead with 7:24 left in regulation, Team Turmoil appeared finally ready to burst like the seams in a fat man's pants.
Timms, who poured in 21 points, had her faucet turned off, and all of the second-chance tries on offensive rebounds that had allowed the Mercury to keep the upper hand dried up.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/blinebury/blinebury980830.html   (718 words)

  
 Mercury Luncheon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
After Meghan took her seat, Michele Timms strutted up to the microphone and promptly ripped it up.
She explained that the Mercury were in need of an interpreter for Michele.
She then pumped up the crowd by letting us all know that Phoenix has the best fans and that we deserved a championship and that is "better than any gold medal." She expressed that "coaching is my dream" and she would love nothing more than to bring rings home to the valley of the sun.
www.allsports.com /wnba/mercury/lunch.html   (1558 words)

  
 AZSPORTSFAN.COM: Members: Sports Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Joining Sharp's staff is former Mercury All-Star, Michele Timms.
Only ten months into retirement and one month into her new role as color commentator for both radio and television, former Mercury great Michele Timms makes yet another move, joining the ranks of the coaching staff.
In five years as the Mercury's floor leader, Timms retired as the franchise's career leader in assists (551), assists per game (4.8), assists in a single-season (158), career steals (188) and steals in a single season (71).
azsportsfan.com /members/sports/06292002.html   (425 words)

  
 Arizona State University - Women's Basketball - Official Athletic Site
Junior forward Michele Workman is also scoring in double digits (12.8ppg), and the Sooners are posting 68.1 points per contest.
ASU trailed until junior guard Michelle Tom (Winslow, Ariz.) hit a shot from the perimeter to tie the game at eight points apiece.
Timms, who made her debut in the ASU-Dayton game, will also serve as commentator for the ASU-Oklahoma game (Dec. 29), in the two games vs. Arizona (Jan. 17, Feb. 14) and in more to come.
thesundevils.collegesports.com /sports/w-baskbl/archive/9798spec-rel/asu-w-baskbl-spec-rel15.html   (1947 words)

  
 TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- Wrap Up: Women's Gold Medal Basketball
None of that really mattered to Aussie captain Michele Timms, a feisty guard with spikey blond hair, who ran into the stands to collapse in her grandparents' arms.
She wore a bright pattern of the Stars and Stripes on her sleeve, but her heart was with the Aussie basketballer.
As Timms looked up, at the American with the flag T shirt, at the crowd decked out in the Aussie colors of green and gold, and she smiled.
www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,56359,00.html   (352 words)

  
 ESPN.com - WNBA - Stepanova scores 19 for Phoenix
The Mercury have watching the improvement from Stepanova, a 22-year-old from Russia, who is supplying youth to an aging lineup that includes 37-year-old starting forward Jennifer Gillom and point guard Michele Timms, who is 36.
Katie Smith led the rally with a basket and three free throws, one resulting from a technical foul against Timms.
Timms and Gillom each added 13 points, and Lisa Harrison scored 12.
espn.go.com /wnba/2001/20010714/recap/phomin.html   (504 words)

  
 WNBA.com: Chats
Michele Timms: Yeah, absolutely, it would be great if she could make it back.
Michele Timms: It was phenomenal, my greatest moment of my WNBA career.
Michele Timms: I don't look at it any differently.
proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatWNBA?event_id=7334   (1129 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Catchings's Debut Delayed by Sore Knee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
After having two knee surgeries in the past year, Phoenix Mercury point guard Michele Timms returned Saturday against Orlando, playing 16 minutes and scoring six points in the Mercury's 72-68 win.
Once Timms is fully healthy, the plan is to rotate her and 19-year-old rookie Kristen Veal for the rest of the season.
"She was always the big one back in Australia," Veal said of Timms, whom she first watched play in 1994.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A15546-2001Jun18?language=printer   (451 words)

  
 Timms Signing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Kylie got her opened Timms can signed and one of the rookie cards that Pinnacle had stacked up next to Timmsy.
I only had to wait for two people in front of me and was able to ask Timms about the new assistant coach (Yes, Carrie Graf will be the new assistant coach) and she was pretty surprised I knew anything about it.
After Timms was leaving to catch her 2:30pm flight back home down under, many of the Smitty's folks remarked on what a class act she was.
www.allsports.com /wnba/mercury/signing.html   (1041 words)

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