Ann Strother

Ann Strother
No. 43,7,69 F
Guard/Forward
Personal information
Born	(1983-12-11) December 11, 1983 (age 28)
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Career information
College	Connecticut
NBA Draft	2006 / Round: 2 / Pick: 15th overall
Pro career	2006–2008
Career history
Phoenix Mercury (2006) Indiana Fever (2007) Atlanta Dream (2008)
Career highlights and awards
Two National Championships while at UConn
Career statistics
Points	83
Rebounds	27
Assists	12

Ann Elise Strother (born December 11, 1983) is an American basketball coach, and former professional player, most recently for the Indiana Fever. Strother played at the collegiate level for the Connecticut Huskies, helping the team to two national titles.

Early life[link]

Strother spent her childhood in midwestern Iowa.^[1][2] Her family moved to Castle Rock, Colorado when she was in 8th grade. Strother was introduced to basketball by her father Kenneth, who played at the University of Northern Iowa for a semester.^[3] She became so good at basketball that she received her first college-recruiting letter from the University of Iowa, when she was only in eighth grade.^[1]

High school[link]

She went to Heritage High School for two years then transferred to Highlands Ranch High School where she helped the basketball team to win two Colorado State Championships. Strother was named a WBCA All-American.^[4] She participated in the 2002 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored nine points.^[5] Strother was also named to play in the inaugural (2002) McDonald's All-American Game, where she was named co-MVP. During the summer after her freshman and sophomore years of high school, Strother played for a team that went to Paris for two weeks to play in a tournament. Strother played on an Athletic Amateur Union team and while traveling to tournaments, she used her time wisely visiting schools that would later help her in making her college selection decision. During the summer before her senior year of high school, Strother was selected to play on the USA Junior World Championship Team (now known as U19) in the Czech Republic.^[6] Strother was the leading scorer in the win over China, and fifth leading scorer over all, helping the USA to a 6–1 record and a bronze medal. Strother became only the second high school player in USA Basketball history to receive the honor of playing for the Junior World Championship Team, the other being Lisa Leslie in 1989. Geno Auriemma coached the USA team that year. After that she decided to commit to UConn. Strother was named the Naismith High School National Player of the Year in her senior year (2002) and was the 2001-02 girl's basketball Gatorade National Player of the Year.

College[link]

Strother was recruited by national powerhouses such as the University of Connecticut (UConn), the University of Tennessee, the University of Georgia, Stanford University, Notre Dame University, and Purdue University before ultimately committing to Connecticut. At UConn, Strother would play for future Hall of Fame inductee Geno Auriemma and alongside two-time National Player of the Year Diana Taurasi while helping Connecticut to its fourth and fifth national titles. Strother played in all 143 games of her collegiate career and started in 142. She averaged 12.9 points per game in her career and 14.0 in her senior season despite festering foot problems. Strother would eventually finish seventh all-time among UConn scorers with 1699 career points, and second all-time in career three-point field goals with 290. Strother joined some elite company when she became only the second player in UConn history to amass more than 1600 points, 600 rebounds, 400 assists, 100 steals, and 100 blocks- the other being Diana Taurasi. Strother also excelled in the classroom as she was a Dean’s List student all four of her years at UConn. In December 2006, Strother graduated from UConn with a degree in psychology.

While just a freshman, Strother was invited to play on the 2003 Pan American team (along with freshman classmate Barbara Turner. The young team would earn a silver medal, going 5–2, both losses to gold medal winner Cuba. Strother started six of seven games, and averaged 7.9 points per games, fifth best on her team.^[7]

Although the UConn faithful normally embrace former players, Strother attended a UConn vs. Notre Dame basketball game in early 2010 wearing a Notre Dame sweatshirt, leading to some ridicule from current UConn students.

University of Connecticut statistics[link]

Notable performances[link]

• March 7, 2006 - scored 20 points in UConn's 50-44 victory over West Virginia to capture the Big East Championship crown; was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player
• January 7, 2006 - scored a game-high 25 points, including 5 three-pointers, in UConn's 89-80 loss to Tennessee; fouled out for the first time in her career in the final minute, to the delight of Tennessee fans
• December 8, 2006 - had 24 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, and three blocks in UConn's 72-56 victory over Villanova
• March 8, 2005 - scored 20 points in UConn's 67-51 victory over Rutgers to win the Big East Championship
• April 6, 2004 - scored 14 points, including 3 critical free throws, to help UConn edge Tennessee 71-60 in the National Championship game
• February 5, 2004 - recorded 17 points and 7 rebounds in UConn's 81-67 defeat of Tennessee
• January 30, 2004 - had a career high 27 points and added 10 rebounds to lead UConn to an 82-49 rout of St. John's, despite Taurasi's absence
• April 8, 2003 - scored 17 points and sank the game-clinching free throws to help UConn defeat Tennessee 73-68 in the National Championship game
• February 1, 2003 - recorded 17 points and 11 rebounds in UConn's 77-65 victory over then top-ranked Duke; this game marks the only time Strother was called for a technical foul: she inadvertently elbowed Duke guard Sheana Mosch
• November 22, 2002 - had 11 points and 11 rebounds in her first collegiate game, helping UConn defeat Wright State 85-39

Professional[link]

WNBA[link]

In the 2006 WNBA Draft, Strother was selected by the Houston Comets with the 15th overall pick before being traded to the Phoenix Mercury for Liz Shimek and Mistie Williams.^[9] Due to recurring foot pain and a Phoenix bench that was well-stocked with guards, Strother saw very little playing time in her rookie season. Strother played eight games with the Mercury as a rookie before joining the Indiana Fever in an off season trade for veteran center Olympia Scott. On February 6, 2008 Strother was selected by the Atlanta Dream in the expansion draft. She was waived by the Dream on January 14, 2009. During her stints with various WNBA teams, Strother has averaged just 2.0 points per game and 6.5 minutes per game in the WNBA over the course of her career through the end of 2008.

International[link]

She has also played professionally in Russia, and briefly in Spain.

Coaching[link]

In October 2007 Strother was hired as the director of basketball operations for the University of Colorado women's basketball team, serving under head coach Kathy McConnell–Miller.^[10]

Modeling[link]

Strother is currently pursuing a modeling career.^[11]

Quotes[link]

• "I think the only way you can accomplish anything is to have a positive attitude and look at things in a positive light. There are times everyone goes through that are tough."
• "I think he's (Geno Auriemma) always acted like a Hall of Fame coach."
• "She's (Diana Taurasi) the most amazing leader you could ask for, and she just took control. She made me feel like I had to come out and play."
• "You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments come, this is when we always play our best."
• Geno Auriemma on Ann Strother: "Nerves are not an issue. To me, Ann Strother is a perfect example of someone who came in here as a freshman and was never afraid to take the big shot, to have the ball in crucial situations. Some kids are just different and they have it in them. She does."
• Geno Auriemma on Ann Strother: "[Strother is] one of those impact players that makes them when you need them. I can't think of anybody we'd rather have shooting the ball. When we get Ann off and running like that, it gives everybody else so much confidence. All of a sudden a three-point game becomes an 11-point game and everybody takes a sigh of relief. It makes everyone around her a better player. She's pretty special when it comes to big moments in games."

See also[link]

• 2006 WNBA Draft
• 2008 WNBA Draft
• List of Connecticut women's basketball players with 1000 points

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• UConn Bio
• USA Basketball Bio
• Wilhelmina Modeling Portfolio

Julia Ann
Julia Ann attending the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada on January 8, 2010
Born	Julia Tavella[1] (1969-10-08) October 8, 1969 (age 42) Glendale, California, U.S.[2]
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[3]
No. of adult films	260[3]
Website
http://www.julia-ann.com/

Julia Ann (born October 8, 1969) is an American pornographic actress, feature dancer and former Penthouse Pet; she is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.

Biography[link]

Julia Ann was born Julia Tavella^[1] in Glendale, California. She grew up around animals and developed a love for horses; Julia also took piano lessons and learned to swim "like a fish."^[4] At age 12 she moved to Idyllwild, California, where she attended a college-prep school before moving to Los Angeles to live with her grandmother at age 17.^[4] By age 18, Julia was modelling, and then became a professional mud wrestler in Hollywood before becoming one half of the popular touring strip club feature act Blondage, with Janine Lindemulder, in the early 1990s.^[4] Their success led to offers to join the adult film industry.^[5]

Julia Ann debuted in adult films in 1993 in Andrew Blake's Hidden Obsessions, in a lesbian sex scene with Lindemulder. She has been a contract girl throughout most of her career. Her first exclusive contract was with Vivid Entertainment (during which time she worked solo and also made a series of Blondage films with Lindemulder). Later she had contracts with Digital Playground (1999) and Wicked Pictures (2002).^[1] She was again on contract with Wicked Pictures in 2006, but in May 2007 she posted on the members section of her website that she had not renewed her contract with Wicked.^[6] She has since started working as a makeup artist.^[7] Along with Inari Vachs and other female porn actresses, Ann was a host of the Playboy TV show Naughty Amateur Home Videos.

She married adult film director Michael Raven on June 21, 2003, but they have since divorced.^[7] Besides breast augmentation, Julia Ann also had labiaplasty and a nose job (to remove the aftereffects of a broken nose suffered when a horse kicked her in the face).^[7]

Awards[link]

AVN[link]

• AVN Hall of Fame Inductee^[8]
• 1994 Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Film for Hidden Obsessions^[9]
• 2000 Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Film for Seven Deadly Sins^[9]
• 2004 Best Actress – Video for Beautiful^[9]
• 2007 Best Scene – Video for The Big Dirty Pazon^[9]
• 2010 Best Makeup for The 8th Day^[10]
• 2010 MILF/Cougar Performer of the Year^[10]
• 2011 MILF/Cougar Performer of the Year

XRCO[link]

• 1994 Best Girl-Girl Scene for Hidden Obsessions^[11]
• 2009 MILF of the Year^[12]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Julia Ann Official Site
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• Julia Ann at the Internet Movie Database
• Julia Ann at the Internet Adult Film Database
• Julia Ann at the Adult Film Database
• Julia Ann on Twitter

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James Baby (August 25, 1763 – February 19, 1833) was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born Jacques Bâby, the son of Jacques Baby, to a prosperous family in Detroit in 1763 and educated in Upper Canada, then part of the province of Quebec, where his uncle, François Baby, lived. In 1792, he was appointed to the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Upper Canada and became lieutenant for Kent County. In 1793, he was appointed judge in the Western District.

After the Jay Treaty in 1795, the Baby family left the Detroit area and moved to Sandwich (now Windsor). (Today his house is owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust and currently houses government offices.) Over the years, the family acquired large amounts of land in the western region of Upper Canada. Baby was put in charge of the 1st Kent militia. During the War of 1812, Sandwich was seized by the Americans and Baby was later taken prisoner at the Battle of the Thames. During the American occupation, his property suffered extensive damage.

In 1815, he was appointed Inspector General and moved to York (now Toronto), where he was part of the ruling clique known as the Family Compact. In 1823 he represented Upper Canada in resolving a dispute with Lower Canada over the sharing of customs revenues. A Roman Catholic, he helped establish the first Catholic church at York, St. Paul's.

He died at York in 1833.

External links[link]

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Ann Robinson (born May 25, 1935) is an American actress and stunt horse rider, perhaps best known for her work in the film, The War of the Worlds and in the 1947 to 1970 radio and television series, Dragnet, in which she starred opposite Jack Webb.

Personal life[link]

Robinson was born at the Hollywood Hospital, in Hollywood, California.^[1] She attended Hollywood High School in the early 1950s. Her father was employed by the Bank of Hollywood, on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, and she learned from him, at the age of three, how to ride horses. She became an accomplished rider, which led to her first professional work in Hollywood as a stunt rider.^[2]

Her career as a leading woman was effectively ended in 1957, when she eloped to Mexico to marry a matador, Jaime Bravo, with whom she had two sons; Jaime Bravo, Jr., who is a director for ABC Sports, and Estefan A. Bravo, who played the Axl Rose-like character in White Trash Wins Lotto, a musical by Andy Prieboy. Since that marriage, Robinson has played minor roles, mainly in science fiction films. The couple divorced in 1967^[2] and the same year, Bravo married a Las Vegas showgirl from Les Folies Bergère, named Monica Lind, by whom he had his third and final son, Aleco Jaime Bravo, before he died in an automobile accident in 1970.^[2]

Ann married real estate broker and business manager Joseph Valdez in 1987 and lives with her husband in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, California.^[3] She makes guest appearances at autograph shows and science fiction conventions.

Acting career[link]

As a stunt horse rider, Ann Robinson doubled for Shelly Winters in the 1950 film Frenchie, starring and riding in several westerns during her career such as The Cimarron Kid (1951) with Audie Murphy, Gun Brothers (1956), and Gun Duel in Durango (1957).^[2]

Paramount signed her as an actress in the 1950s. Her first leading role was as "Sylvia Van Buren" in that studio's 1953 film, The War of the Worlds, a role she quasi-reprised in two later films, first as Dr. Van Buren in 1988's Midnight Movie Massacre and then as Dr. Sylvia Van Buren in 2005's The Naked Monster, before reprising the role again in three episodes of the 1988 War of the Worlds television series. She worked on several other films, including Imitation of Life (1959), and Julie (1956).She also had a starring role opposite Jack Webb, in the radio and television series Dragnet, which was broadcast in multiple versions between 1947 and 1970.^[2]

She has worked on numerous television shows and commercials, some in guest starring roles, including credits on episodes of Adam 12, Alfred Hitchcock, Bachelor Father, Ben Casey, Biff Baker, USA, Bob Cummings Show, Burns and Allen, Caesar Romero Series, Callie and Sons, Darren Mcgavin- Series, Days Of Our Lives, Four Star Playhouse, General Hospital, Gilligans Island, It's a Great Life, Millionaire, My Little Margie, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Police Woman, Rawhide, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Roy Calhoun's series, The Texan, The Web, Victor Jory series, Waterfront, and Wyatt Earp.^[2]

She was featured in several commercials for Home Savings Of America, Toni home perms, and Chesterfield Cigarettes. She also performed a number of film voice-overs also, in English and Spanish, in both of which she is fluent. She did the leading actress' voice in To Begin Again, which won the 1984 Oscar for best foreign film. She also did loops for the Bruce Lee Series, The Dead Are Alive, Tough Guys, and Survive. In the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, War of the Worlds, she played the role of Tom Cruise's character's mother in law, the grandmother of Dakota Fanning's character.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ann Robinson at the Internet Movie Database