Charlotte Sting
Conference	Eastern Conference
Founded	1997
Folded	2007
Arena	Charlotte Coliseum (1997-2005) Charlotte Bobcats Arena (2005-2007)
City	Charlotte, North Carolina
Team Colors	Blue, Orange
Owner	Robert L. Johnson
General Manager	Trudi Lacey
Head Coach	Muggsy Bogues
WNBA Championships	None
Conference Titles	1 (2001)
Mascot	Basketball Sting [1]

Charlotte Sting logo 1997-2003

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Formerly the sister organization of the Charlotte Hornets, it became the sister team to the Charlotte Bobcats. Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET, purchased the team in January 2003, shortly after he was announced as the principal owner of an NBA expansion franchise that was later named the Charlotte Bobcats. The New Orleans Hornets are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The Charlotte Bobcats are a professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... Robert Johnson, on the cover of a biography. ... Black Entertainment Television is an American cable network based in Washington, D.C. targeted toward African-American and urban audiences in the United States. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... “NBA” redirects here. ... The Charlotte Bobcats are a professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

Uniforms:

• 1997 - 2003: on the road, light blue with white and purple trim, Sting logo text on the chest. At home, white with blue and purple trim. Sting logo mascot on the shorts, similar to the Charlotte Hornets
• 2004 - 2006: on the road, orange with blue trim, Sting logo text on the chest. At home, white with orange trim. Sting logo mascot on the shorts, similar to the Charlotte Bobcats.

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• Charlotte Hornets: 1997-2002
• Charlotte Bobcats: 2004-2006

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Franchise history

The Early Years

The Charlotte sting was once of the eight original WNBA franchises that began play in 1997. The Sting were then the sister team to the Charlotte Hornets. The Sting would finish their first season with a 15-13 record, qualifying for the first WNBA playoffs. The Sting would lose to the Houston Comets in the one-game semifinal. The New Orleans Hornets are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The Houston Comets are a Womens National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas. ...

The 1998 Sting would finish the season with an 18-12 record. In the playoffs, the Sting would once again lose the WNBA semifinals to the Houston Comets.

In the 1998-1999 offseason, with the folding of the American Basketball League, the Sting added former ABL guard Dawn Staley to an already impressive roster that featured Vicky Bullett and Andrea Stinson. The American Basketball League of 1996 was an attempt to establish an independent professional basketball league for women in the United States. ... Dawn Staley on the Houston Comets Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an US-American basketball player and coach. ... Andrea Stinson is an American professional basketball player, playing from 1998-2005 for the Charlotte Sting and the Detroit Shock. ...

In 1999, the Sting would post a worse record at 15-17, but they would qualify for the playoffs. The Sting would defeat the Detroit Shock in the opening round 60-54. In the Conference Finals, the Sting would fall to the New York Liberty 2 games to 1. The Detroit Shock is a Womens National Basketball Association team based in Detroit, Michigan. ... The New York Liberty is a Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in New York City. ...

The 2000 season would be very disappointing for the sting, as they went 8-24, missing the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.

The 2001 season for the Sting would start off terribly, as the Sting would post a 1-10 record in the first 11 games. But the Sting would turn it around and only lose 4 games the rest of the way, finishing with an 18-14 record. The Sting would barely qualify for the playoffs as the #4 seed, but no one wanted to face them. In the first round, the Sting would shock the #1 seeded Cleveland Rockers 2 games to 1. The Sting would then do the same thing to the New York Liberty, beating them out 2-1 also. The Sting had rode to the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history. It was also the first time a Charlotte team would play in a professional sports championship. But the magic would run out for the Sting, as they were swept by the Los Angeles Sparks 2 games to none. The Cleveland Rockers were a Womens National Basketball Association team. ... The Los Angeles Sparks are a Womens National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. ...

The Sting would post a solid 18-14 record in the 2002 season, but would ultimately make a quick exit from the playoffs, getting swept by the Washington Mystics in the first round. The Washington Mystics are a Womens National Basketball Association team based in Washington, DC. They started play in 1998, the second year of the WNBA and are one of the WNBAs first expansion franchises. ...

The Hornets Move

After the 2001/2002 NBA season, the Charlotte Hornets relocated to New Orleans for a number of reasons. (The reasons can be found in the New Orleans Hornets article.) The Sting did not accompany the Hornets out to New Orleans. For one season (2003), the Sting had no brother team. New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... The New Orleans Hornets are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

The Late Years

The NBA immeadiatly announced after the Hornets moved that a new team would begin play in Charlotte starting in the 2004/2005 season. Shortly after, the owner of this new franchise was announced as Robert L. Johnson. Johnson also bought the Sting to play as the sister team of the new Charlotte Bobcats. The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... Robert Johnson, on the cover of a biography. ... The Charlotte Bobcats are a professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

The 2003 season saw yet another playoff appearance for the venerable Sting. The Sting had posted an 18-16 record and tied with the Connecticut Sun for the #2 seed. The Sting would play the same Sun in the plaoffs, and were swept out in 2 games. The Connecticut Sun are a Womens National Basketball Association team based in Uncasville, Connecticut. ...

After the season, Johnson changed the Sting team colors from the Hornets' teal and purple to correspond with the Bobcats' blue and orange. There was some speculation that the team might get a new name, but a newly released mascot following the same Sting theme made that idea unlikely.

During the offseason, the team made several key roster additions to its established group of veterans. After trading Kelly Miller to the Indiana Fever in exchange for the 3rd overall pick in the WNBA Draft, the Sting drafted Stanford University standout Nicole Powell. The Sting made four picks overall - including the second round pick of Penn State standout Kelly Mazzante. Colleen Mary Coco Miller and Kelly Miller (both born September 6, 1978 in Rochester, Minnesota) are identical twin sisters and professional basketball players. ... The Indiana Fever is a professional womens basketball team that plays in the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). ... The WNBA Draft is an annual draft held by the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA) through which WNBA teams can select new players from a talent pool of college and professional womens basketball players. ... “Stanford” redirects here. ... Nicole Powell (born Nicole Kristen Powell on June 22, 1982 in Sierra Vista, Arizona) is a basketball player who was a standout in college and now plays in the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). ... The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant university. ... Kelly Anne Mazzante (born February 2, 1982) is a professional basketball player in the WNBA, most recently playing for the Charlotte Sting. ...

The Sting did not make the playoffs in the 2004 season, as they posted a 16-18 record and finished one game out of the #4 seed. After the season, the Sting continued to build for the future - trading with the Sacramento Monarchs for Tangela Smith and a second-round draft pick in the 2006 draft in a deal that saw Nicole Powell traded to Sacramento. Having won the first pick in the 2005 WNBA Draft, the Sting selected University of Minnesota Golden Gophers player Janel McCarville. The Sacramento Monarchs is a Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Sacramento, California. ... Tangela Smith on the Charlotte Sting Tangela Nicole Smith (born April 1, 1977 in Chicago, Illinois) is a basketball player for the Charlotte Sting in the WNBA. // Smith attended George Washington High School in Chicago, where she was named a 1994 Kodak High School All-American. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nicole Powell (born Nicole Kristen Powell on June 22, 1982 in Sierra Vista, Arizona) is a basketball player who was a standout in college and now plays in the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). ... The WNBA Draft is an annual draft held by the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA) through which WNBA teams can select new players from a talent pool of college and professional womens basketball players. ... This article is about the oldest and largest campus of the University of Minnesota. ... Goldy the Gopher is the team mascot The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the college sports team for the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. ... Janel McCarville (born on November 3, 1982 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin) was a standout collegiate womens basketball player at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), nicknamed the Golden Gophers. ...

The new look Sting suffered a terrible 2005 season, posting the league's worst record at 6-28. During the season, the Sting traded veteran Dawn Staley to the Houston Comets and named Charlotte basketball icon Muggsy Bogues as their new head coach late in the season. The season also saw the team play its last game in the Charlotte Coliseum, the team's home arena since 1997. The Houston Comets are a Womens National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas. ... Tyrone Curtis Muggsy Bogues (born January 9, 1965, in Baltimore, Maryland) is a retired American professional basketball point guard and former head coach of the now-defunct Charlotte Sting of the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). ... The Charlotte Coliseum was a multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

The Sting moved into the Bobcats' new home, Charlotte Bobcats Arena, for the 2006 season. The Sting had a better season in 2006 than 2005, posting an 11-23 record. The Sting had a new arena and were clearly making progress in the rebuilding. Despite the growing number of successes on the court, the 2006 season proved to be the Sting's final season in the league. Charlotte Bobcats Arena (also known locally as The Uptown Arena or, for short, Bobcats) is an 18,500-seat entertainment and sports venue located in the Uptown area of Charlotte, North Carolina. ...

The End of the Sting

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Attempted Move to Kansas City

An investment group in Kansas City had an interest in moving the Sting to Kansas City. The Sting were to play in the Sprint Center, which was due to open in the Fall of 2007. The team may have had a better life in Kansas City with a better market and a hunger for professional basketball (KC does not have an NBA team.) Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... The Sprint Center is a large, multi-use indoor arena being built in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

The Sting Fold

After months of talk and deliberation between the league and the investors; the plans would ultimatly fall through. On January 3, 2007, the Bobcats announced that the fundraising effort by a group seeking to move the team to Kansas City had failed. The team would fold immediately, and the players would be sent to the other teams in the league via a dispersal draft. Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team folds, consolidates with another team, or for some other reason ceases to exist. ...

Season-by-season records

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, % = Win-Loss %

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Notable Facts

• The Sting are the only team to play in a WNBA Finals and end up folding.
• The Sting are to date Charlotte's only appearance in a professional sports championship.

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Players of note

Hall of Famers

none

Retired numbers

• 32. Andrea Stinson

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Former players

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Final roster

Charlotte Sting Final Roster
Head Coach: Muggsy Bogues				Edit
Pos.	No.		Name	College
G	10		LaToya Bond	Missouri
G	1		Tasha Butts (IL)	Tennessee
G-F	25		Monique Currie	Duke
G	30		Helen Darling	Penn State
G	21		Allison Feaster	Harvard
C	42		Tye'sha Fluker	Tennessee
C	33		Yelena Leuchanka (IL)	West Virginia
G	13		Kelly Mazzante	Penn State
F-C	4		Janel McCarville	Minnesota
F-G	2		Sheri Sam	Vanderbilt
F-C	50		Tangela Smith	Iowa
C	55		Tammy Sutton-Brown	Rutgers
F	12		Ayana Walker	Louisiana Tech
(IL) - Inactive List

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Coaches and others

Head Coaches

• Marydell Meadows (1997 - 1999)
• Dan Hughes (1999), now the Head Coach of the San Antonio Silver Stars
• T.R. Dunn (2000)
• Anne Donovan (2001 - 2002) (Hall of Famer), now the Head Coach of the Seattle Storm
• Trudi Lacey (2003 - August 2, 2005), also served as the team's General Manager
• Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues (August 3, 2005 - January 3, 2007)

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External links

• Sting website