The 2012 WNBA draft was the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 16, 2012 at the ESPN studios in Bristol, Connecticut. The first round was shown on ESPN2 ( HD), with the second and third rounds shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.

Draft lottery

The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2012 draft occurred on November 10, 2011. The Los Angeles Sparks won the first pick, while the Chicago Sky, Minnesota Lynx and Tulsa Shock were awarded the second, third and fourth picks respectively. The remaining first-round picks and all the second- and third-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss records in the previous season.

Below were the chances for each team to get specific picks in the 2012 draft lottery, rounded to three decimal places:

Invited players

The WNBA announced on April 11, 2012 that 15 players had been invited to attend the draft. Unless indicated otherwise, all players listed are Americans who played at U.S. colleges. ^[1]

• LaSondra Barrett, LSU
• Vicki Baugh, Tennessee
• Sasha Goodlett, Georgia Tech
• Tiffany Hayes, Connecticut
• Glory Johnson, Tennessee
• Shenise Johnson, Miami (FL)
• Lynetta Kizer, Maryland
• Natalie Novosel, Notre Dame
• Nneka Ogwumike, Stanford
• Devereaux Peters, Notre Dame
• Samantha Prahalis, Ohio State
• Kayla Standish, Gonzaga
• Shekinna Stricklen, Tennessee
• Riquna Williams, Miami (FL)
• Julie Wojta, Green Bay

Transactions

• February 1, 2011: Los Angeles acquired a second-round pick from Tulsa as part of the Andrea Riley transaction.
• April 11, 2011: Minnesota acquired a second-round pick from Atlanta as part of the Felicia Chester/Rachel Jarry transaction.
• April 11, 2011: Atlanta acquired a second-round pick from Washington as part of the Lindsey Harding trade.
• April 11, 2011: Washington acquired a first-round pick from Atlanta as part of the Lindsey Harding trade.
• April 11, 2011: Phoenix acquired a third-round pick from Connecticut as part of the Tahnee Robinson transaction.
• April 11, 2011: Minnesota acquired a second-round pick from New York as part of the Jessica Breland transaction.
• April 11, 2011: Minnesota acquired a first-round pick from Washington as part of the Nicky Anosike trade.
• April 29, 2011: Indiana acquired a third-round pick from Seattle as part of the Katie Smith/Erin Phillips three-team trade.
• April 29, 2011: Washington acquired a first-round pick from Seattle and a third-round pick from Indiana as part of the Katie Smith/Erin Phillips three-team trade.
• April 29, 2011: Seattle acquired a second-round pick from Indiana as part of the Katie Smith/Erin Phillips three-team trade.
• May 2, 2011: Tulsa acquired second- and third-round picks from San Antonio as part of the Scholanda Robinson transaction.
• May 27, 2011: Minnesota has the right to swap third-round picks with New York as part of the Quanitra Hollingsworth transaction.
• June 1, 2011: Los Angeles acquired a second-round pick from Chicago as part of the Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton trade.
• January 2, 2012: Seattle acquired the second overall pick from Chicago and Chicago acquired the 23rd overall pick from Seattle as part of the Swin Cash trade.
• February 28, 2012: Phoenix traded the 18th pick to Minnesota in exchange for Charde Houston and the 24th pick.

Source ^[2]

Key

Draft selections

Round 1

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Nneka Ogwumike +	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Stanford
2	Shekinna Stricklen	United States	Seattle Storm (from Chi.)	Tennessee
3	Devereaux Peters	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Was.)	Notre Dame
4	Glory Johnson +	United States	Tulsa Shock	Tennessee
5	Shenise Johnson	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Miami (FL)
6	Samantha Prahalis	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Ohio State
7	Kelley Cain	United States	New York Liberty	Tennessee
8	Natalie Novosel	United States	Washington Mystics (from Atl.)	Notre Dame
9	Astan Dabo	Mali	Connecticut Sun	Reims Basket (France)
10	LaSondra Barrett	United States	Washington Mystics (from Sea.)	LSU
11	Sasha Goodlett	United States	Indiana Fever	Georgia Tech
12	Damiris Dantas do Amaral	Brazil	Minnesota Lynx	CD Bosco-Celta de Vigo ( Spain)

Round 2

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
13	Farhiya Abdi	Sweden	Los Angeles Sparks (from Tul.)	Frisco SIKA ( Czech Republic)
14	Tiffany Hayes +	United States	Atlanta Dream (from Was.)	Connecticut
15	Khadijah Rushdan	United States	Los Angeles Sparks (from Chi.)	Rutgers
16	Tyra White	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Texas A&M
17	Riquna Williams +	United States	Tulsa Shock (from S.A.)	Miami (FL)
18	Julie Wojta	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Pho.)	Green Bay
19	Kayla Standish	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from N.Y.)	Gonzaga
20	Nika Barič	Slovenia	Minnesota Lynx (from Atl.)	Spartak Moscow ( Russia)
21	Chay Shegog	United States	Connecticut Sun	North Carolina
22	Keisha Hampton	United States	Seattle Storm	DePaul
23	Shey Peddy	United States	Chicago Sky (from Ind. via Sea.)	Temple
24	C'eira Ricketts	United States	Phoenix Mercury (from Minn.)	Arkansas

Round 3

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
25	Vicki Baugh	United States	Tulsa Shock	Tennessee
26	Anjale Barrett	United States	Washington Mystics	Maryland
27	Sydney Carter	United States	Chicago Sky	Texas A&M
28	April Sykes	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Rutgers
29	Lynetta Kizer	United States	Tulsa Shock (from S.A.)	Maryland
30	Christine Flores	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Missouri
31	Jacki Gemelos	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from N.Y.)	USC
32	Isabelle Yacoubou (pick later voided)	France	Atlanta Dream	Valencia ( Spain)
33	Amanda Johnson	United States	Phoenix Mercury (from Conn.)	Oregon
34	Courtney Hurt [ fr]	United States	Indiana Fever (from Sea.)	VCU
35	Briana Gilbreath [ it]	United States	Washington Mystics (from Ind.)	USC
36	Katelan Redmon	United States	New York Liberty (from Minn.)	Gonzaga

See also

• List of first overall WNBA draft picks

References

• "All-Time WNBA Draft List". WNBA. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008.

External links

• 2012 WNBA draft board