Becky Hammon Bio
Becky Hammon was born in 1977 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Hammon grew up with an older brother who she played sports with and learned to dribble a basketball at an early age because of this. After learning to play basketball at such a young age, she was ahead of others, and this translated into high school.
Becky Hammon High School
Hammon played basketball at Stevens High School in her hometown. As a junior, she was named South Dakota Miss Basketball and was on the all-state first team her senior year. She averaged 26 points her senior year and is the career scoring leader at Stevens, where she scored 1,417 points. She also scored a career-high of 41 points against Sioux Falls Roosevelt.
Becky Hammon College
Becky went on to play her collegiate career at Colorado State University. Here, Becky became the most decorated CSU women’s basketball player ever. Hammon won 14 conference Player of the Week awards, four first-team All-Conference awards, First-team All-American award in 1999, WAC Mountain Division Player of the Year in 1998 and 1999, WAC Pacific Division Player of the Year in 1997, and WAC Freshman of the Year in 1996. Hammon once held the school career record for points, points per game, field goals, field goal attempts, free throws made, free throw attempts, 3-pointers, 3-point attempts, steals, and assists when she graduated. She led CSU to NCAA tournament appearances in 1996, 1998, and 1999.
Becky Hammon Liberty
Hammon went undrafted in the WNBA 1999 Draft but was signed by the New York Liberty in May of that year. She went on to play eight seasons for the Liberty, being named to three all-star games and averaging 13 points and three assists. She was voted to an All-WNBA 2nd team and made six playoff series during her time there.
Becky Hammon Coaching Career
Hammon was hired by the San Antonio Spurs as an assistant coach in 2014. Hammon was the Spurs Summer League head coach in 2015 and was the first female to be a head coach in the Summer League. On December 30, 2020, Hammon became the first female “acting” head coach in NBA history after the team’s head coach was ejected during a game against the Lakers and she stepped in for the rest of the game. The following year in 2021, Hammon was hired by the Las Vegas Aces to be their head coach and she has now won 2 championships (back-to-back) in the years 2022 and 2023.