A Seattle Storm occurs as Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Seattle, Washington. Inside 2004, led by Australian basketball star Lauren Jackson and University of Connecticut star Sue Bird, a team brought the city its 1st agency sports championship since 1979.

the team cultivates the fan-friendly, personal environment home games by with an 100%-child dance squad, which leads immature fans inside a conga line on the court during period-outs, to the music of ''"C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)"'' by the Quad City DJs. Known as for the rainy weather of Seattle, a team utilizes numbers of weather-related icons: the team mascot is Doppler [http://www.wnba.com/media/storm/doppler_800_050524.jpg], a maroon-furred animal sustaining a cup anemometer on its head; the theme song for Storm house games is AC/DC's "Thunderstruck"; and its newssheet is known as Stormwatch. KeyArena fans might usually non sit down until a Storm scores its foremost point of every half.

A Storm is the sister team of the Seattle SuperSonics.

Uniforms:

Home, white by owning dark red & green trim, yellow on a shoulders by having the team title logotype text on the chest inside green. On tour, dark green sustaining red & yellowness trim. A team logotype is replaced per city title within whiten logotype text on tour.

History
the Storm began their franchise history sustaining a to a lesser degree promising begin in the 2000 season. Led by guard Edna Campbell and Czech center Kamila Vodichkova, the team finished using the 6-26 record. Of these year later on, a Storm's outlook wwhen far further rosy as it drafted 19-month old Australian standout Lauren Jackson. Though Seattle did non produce a playoffs that month, Jackson's telling greenhorn performance provided the firm foundation for the franchise to repose on.

Sustaining a drafting of University of Connecticut star Sue Bird, a Storm filled a gap at a point guard position. Using Bird's playmaking ability & Jackson's scoring & rebounding, a team manufactured a playoffs first within 2002. Though Jackson won a WNBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2003, the team got the dissatisfactory season sustaining Bird wounded for lot of the year. A team rebounded a charted month, winning a 2004 WNBA Finals two games to one above a Connecticut Sun. Betty Lennox was named MVP of the Finals. A team's win brought a national agency sports championship to Seattle first since a Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA title in 1979. A waround too processed Anne Donovan a foremost female head coach in WNBA history to win a WNBA Championship.

Key players from either a Storm's championship year were non on the team within 2005. Vodichkova, Tully Bevilaqua, and Sheri Sam moved to other teams. Additionally, a pre-year injury of Australian star & freshly acquisition Jessica Bibby hampered the team's 2005 year. When it manufactured a playoffs, their title defense within 2005 was stopped in the American Conference Semifinals per Houston Comets, 2 games to Ace.

Players of note

Retired numbers

Hall of Famers

Not to be forgotten
Quacy Barnes, now an Adjunct Coach at Austin Peay State University Tully Bevilaqua Sandy Brondello, now an Adjunct Coach for the San Antonio Silver Stars Edna Campbell Michelle Marciniak, now an Adjunct Coach for the University of South Carolina Kate Paye, now an Adjunct Coach at San Diego State University Semeka Randall, now an Adjunct Coach at Michigan State University Jamie Redd Sheri Sam Charmin Smith, now an Adjunct Coach at her alma mater, Stanford University Kate Starbird Alicia Thompson Kamila Vodichkova

Current stars
Suzy Batkovic Sue Bird Janell Burse Simone Edwards Lauren Jackson Betty Lennox

Coaches and others
Head Coaches: Lin Dunn (2000-2002), now an Adjunct Coach by using a Indiana Fever Anne Donovan (2003 - Present) (Hall of Famer)