Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #145 - Seimone Augustus

Seimone Augustus

USA

Basketball

Overall Rankings

#45 among American Olympians

#4 among Basketball players

Olympic Results

2008

Women - Gold

2012

Women - Gold

2016

Women - Gold

Total

Events - 3

Gold - 3

Seimone Delicia Augustus was born on April 30, 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she attended high school and college. While at LSU, she led the Tigers to 3 straight appearances in the Final Four, and then was the #1 pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft.

She finished as the #2 scorer in the league as a rookie and was named Rookie of the Year, then set a career-high with 22.6 points per game in 2007. She made the 2008 Olympic team, which ran through the tournament, winning their games by an average of over 37 points each and earned her first gold medal.

She tore her ACL in 2009, missing most of that season, but when she was back at full health in 2011, she led the Minnesota Lynx to a championship and was named the Finals MVP. This helped her make the Olympic team again in 2012, and that team again swept their way to the gold medal, winning by an average of almost 35 points per game.

She won another WNBA title in 2013, then missed much of the 2015 season to a knee injury before returning in time for the playoffs, where she earned her 3rd league title. She was back on the Olympic team in 2016, and that team again won every game they entered by an average of more than 37 points, and Augustus had her third gold medal.

In 2017, she and the Lynx reached their 6th WNBA Finals in 7 years, and won it for the 4th time, giving her one more WNBA title than Olympic gold medal. She played 3 more years before retiring in early 2021, taking a role as an assistant coach with the LA Sparks. She is currently an assistant coach at LSU, her alma mater.

Augustus was not the top scorer on any of her Olympic teams, but she was always one of the biggest contributors, and the 3 Olympic teams she belonged to were the three most dominant women's teams in history, which earns her a spot as one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all time.