Jennifer Azzi: Featured Changemakers Commentator, “Sport for a Better World” Competition
NBA & WNBA Community Ambassador
As part of the NBA and WNBA Cares programs, Jennifer Azzi works with community and youth-serving programs that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes. Jennifer is joining the Changemakers community to play a similar role in the “Nike – Changemakers Competition: Sport for a Better World”, serving as a featured commentator to help mobilize the growing sport for social change online community.
Arguably one of the best women’s basketball players to have played the game, Azzi’s impressive WNBA career spanned five seasons with three teams including the Detroit Shock, Utah Starzz and San Antonio Silver Stars. Azzi retired with the Silver Stars in 2003 and remains one of the best players in franchise history, leaving with the all-time record in both three-point shooting and assists. She also holds the record among all-time WNBA players for three-point field goal percentage for a season.
Azzi spent four years at Stanford University where she led her squad to an overall 101-23 record while making three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and clinching the NCAA Championship her senior season. That year she was honored with both the Wade Trophy and Naismith National Player of the Year award.
In international competition, Azzi was a member of the USA Women’s Basketball Team that won the gold medal in the 1996 Olympics.
Since retiring from professional basketball, Azzi has applied her unique knowledge of health and wellness to create Azzi Training, a program designed to encourage individuals to focus on overall health and life balance.
Azzi has also become a sought after motivational speaker. She is a master in building self-leadership and excellence in teams and individuals, she inspires, informs, and entertains corporate and association audiences around the world with cutting-edge content, ageless wisdom, and original, high-impact anecdotes.
Jennifer’s Featured Comments on the “Sport for a Better World” competition. Check here for Jennifer’s weekly postings and comments.
