Micaela Cocks
No. 32 – Townsville Fire | |
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Position | Guard |
League | WNBL |
Personal information | |
Born | Takapuna, New Zealand | 2 May 1986
Nationality | New Zealand |
Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Career information | |
College | Oregon (2006–2010) |
Playing career | 2005–present |
Career history | |
2005 | North Harbour Breeze |
2006 | Auckland Lady Hawks |
2010 | Energa Torun (Poland) |
2010 | Cote d'Opale Basket (France) |
2011–present | Townsville Fire |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Micaela Cocks (born 2 May 1986) is a professional basketball player from New Zealand. She currently plays for the Townsville Fire in the WNBL.
Professional career
[edit]College
[edit]Cocks played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks in Eugene, Oregon, participating in NCAA Division I.[1] In her final season, she was awarded a place on the All-Pac-10 First-Team.
Oregon statistics
[edit]Source[2]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2006-07 | Oregon | 31 | 106 | 43.4% | 37.2% | 88.9% | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.3 | - | 3.4 |
2007-08 | Oregon | 30 | 202 | 37.4% | 36.7% | 81.3% | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 6.7 |
2008-09 | Oregon | 30 | 404 | 38.4% | 39.3% | 86.0% | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 13.5 |
2009-10 | Oregon | 34 | 483 | 40.7% | 32.6% | 86.5% | 3.2 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 14.2 |
Career | 125 | 1195 | 39.5% | 36.5% | 85.9% | 2.4 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 9.6 |
Europe
[edit]Cocks first travelled to Poland after signing with Energa Torun. However, she would only play four games before transferring to France, to play for Cote d'Opale Basket Calais. Once again, she would only participate in four games until her season was cut short.
Australia
[edit]Micaela Cocks was signed for the 2011–12 season, with the Townsville Fire. She has since been a strong, consistent member of their roster. Playing an instrumental role in their title runs in 2015 and 2016, alongside the likes of Suzy Batkovic and Cayla George. In the 2016 WNBL Finals, against the Perth Lynx, Cocks was awarded the WNBL Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award for her showings through the series.[3] Cocks has been re-signed for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.[4]
National team
[edit]At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal as part of the Tall Ferns New Zealand women's basketball team.[5] She represented New Zealand and the Tall Ferns again at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She has taken home a silver medal at the FIBA Oceania Championship on four occasions. She has also participated in two Olympic qualifying tournaments with the Tall Ferns, in 2012 and 2016. Unfortunately, both times, the Tall Ferns fell short on Olympic qualification.
References
[edit]- ^ "Micaela Cocks - GoDucks.com - The University of Oregon Official Athletics Web Site". GoDucks.com.
- ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "Kiwi Micaela Cocks named MVP of Aussie WNBL grand final". stuff.co.nz.
- ^ "Cocks signs on for two more seasons". wnbl.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ^ "Micaela Cocks | Basketball New Zealand". Basketball.org.nz. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games medallists in basketball
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Guards (basketball)
- New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Australia
- New Zealand women's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players for New Zealand
- Oregon Ducks women's basketball players
- Basketball players from Auckland
- People from Takapuna
- Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa players
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games