{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1993)}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Brittany Boyd-Jones | image = Brittany Boyd at 2 August 2015 game cropped.jpg | caption =Boyd in 2015 | position = [[Point guard]] | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 9 | weight_lb = 156 | league = [[WNBA]] | team = | number = 15 | nationality = American | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|6|11}} | birth_place = <!-- ***NOTE*** Do not add without a source. See talk page ***NOTE***--> | highschool = [[Berkeley High School (California)|Berkeley]] ([[Berkeley, California]]) | college = [[California Golden Bears women's basketball|California]] (2011–2015) | draft_year = 2015 | draft_league = WNBA | draft_round = 1 | draft_pick = 9 | draft_team = [[New York Liberty]] | career_start = 2015 | career_end = 2021 | years1 = {{WNBA Year|2015}}–{{WNBA Year|2019}} | team1 = [[New York Liberty]] | years2 = 2019–2020 | team2 = [[Elitzur Ramla (women's basketball)|Elitzur Ramla]] | years3 = {{WNBA Year|2021}} | team3 = [[Chicago Sky]] | coach_start = 2022 || cyears1 = 2022-2024 | cteam1 = [[Cal State East Bay Pioneers women's basketball|Cal State East Bay]] (asst.) | cyears2 = 2024-present | cteam2 = [[Saint Mary's Gaels women's basketball|Saint Mary's]] (asst.) | highlights = * [[WNBA All-Rookie Team]] (2015) *Second-team All-American – [[Associated Press|AP]] (2015) * [[Women's Basketball Coaches Association|WBCA]] Coaches' All-American (2015) * 2x Pac-12 All-Defensive Team (2014, 2015) *3× [[List of All-Pac-12 Conference women's basketball teams|All-Pac-12]] (2013–2015) *Pac-12 All-Freshman team (2012) | wnba_profile = brittany-boyd | bbr_wnba = boydbr01w }}
'''Brittany Boyd-Jones''' ({{nee}} '''Boyd'''; born June 11, 1993) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player in the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA). She previously played for the [[Chicago Sky]]. She played [[college basketball]] for the [[California Golden Bears women's basketball|California Golden Bears]]. She was selected by New York in the first round of the [[2015 WNBA draft]] with the ninth overall pick.<ref name=hammon_04162015>{{cite news |last=Hammon |first=Stephanie |title=Cal's Brittany Boyd and Stanford's Amber Orrange are headed to New York as WNBA teammates, having both been drafted by the Liberty |date=April 16, 2015 |work=San Jose Mercury News |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_27930440/cals-brittany-boyd-goes-no-9-overall-new |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417093406/http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_27930440/cals-brittany-boyd-goes-no-9-overall-new |archivedate=April 17, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Boyd grew up in [[Richmond, California]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Michelle |title=There's no place like home |date=April 6, 2013 |work=espnW.com |url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/tournament/2013/story/_/id/9141678/2013-women-ncaa-tournament-cal-bears-guard-brittany-boyd-there-no-place-home |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616022840/http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/tournament/2013/story/_/id/9141678/2013-women-ncaa-tournament-cal-bears-guard-brittany-boyd-there-no-place-home |archive-date=June 16, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Creative Genius |date=November 5, 2013 |work=Slam |url=http://www.slamonline.com/college-hs/college/brittany-boyd-california-bears/#suQ9KxvfjeaImppy.97 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616014727/http://www.slamonline.com/college-hs/college/brittany-boyd-california-bears/ |archivedate=June 16, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> and attended high school in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] at [[Berkeley High School (California)|Berkeley High]].<ref name=naismith>{{cite news |title=Cal's Brittany Boyd is a Naismith semifinalist |date=March 3, 2015 |work=San Jose Mercury News |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_27634233/cals-brittany-boyd-is-naismith-semifinalist |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614110532/http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_27634233/cals-brittany-boyd-is-naismith-semifinalist |archivedate=June 14, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> As a senior in college, she helped Cal advance to the second round of the [[2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament|2015 NCAA Tournament]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Vernon |first=Mike |title=Cal's Boyd, Gray see careers end with loss to Texas |date=March 22, 2015 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |url=http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Cal-s-Boyd-Gray-see-careers-end-with-loss-to-6151977.php |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614212030/http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Cal-s-Boyd-Gray-see-careers-end-with-loss-to-6151977.php |archivedate=June 14, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Boyd averaged 13.4 [[point (basketball)|points]], 7.7 [[rebound (basketball)|rebounds]], 6.8 [[assist (basketball)|assists]] and 2.9 [[steal (basketball)|steals]] per game for the season, and was a semifinalist for the [[Naismith College Player of the Year]].<ref name=hammon_04162015/><ref name=naismith/> She was the first player in the history of the [[Pac-12 Conference]] to reach career totals of 1,400 points, 700 rebounds, 600 assists and 300 steals.<ref name=naismith/>
Boyd played five seasons with New York. In [[2019 New York Liberty season|2019]], she tied a career high with 33 games played while [[starting lineup|starting]] in a career-high 17 contests. The Liberty [[Waivers (sports)|waived]] her after the season.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Mike|title=Liberty waive veteran guard Brittany Boyd|date=April 21, 2020|newspaper=Newsday|url=https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/liberty/brittany-boyd-liberty-1.44014974|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519122323/https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/liberty/brittany-boyd-liberty-1.44014974|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 19, 2020|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>
She was picked up by the Sky in 2021, but waved by the team in May 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brittany Boyd-Jones WNBA Stats & News |url=https://www.rotowire.com/wnba/player/brittany-boyd-jones-375 |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=www.rotowire.com}}</ref>
==Coaching career== Boyd was assistant coach for the Cal State East Bay women's basketball team from 2022-2024. <br> In September 2024, it was announced that Boyd would become an assistant coach for the St. Mary's Gaels women's basketball team.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smcgaels.com/news/2024/9/24/womens-basketball-wbb-cammon-adds-brendan-wheeler-and-brittany-boyd-jones-to-staff-for-2024-25-season.aspx|title= WBB Cammon Adds Brendan Wheeler and Brittany Boyd-Jones to Staff for 2024-25 Season|accessdate= January 12, 2025}}</ref>
==Career statistics== ===WNBA career statistics=== {{WNBA player statistics legend}}
====Regular season==== {{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA regular season statistics}} |- | align="left" | [[2015 WNBA season|2015]] | align="left" | [[2015 New York Liberty season|New York]] |30||4||14.3||39.1||26.7||71.3||2.7||2.3||1.2||0.1||1.6||6.6 |- | align="left" | [[2016 WNBA season|2016]] | align="left" | [[2016 New York Liberty season|New York]] |'''33'''||9||19.7||36.1||16.7||72.8||2.5||3.6||'''1.6'''||0.1||2.0||6.5 |- | align="left" | [[2017 WNBA season|2017]] | align="left" | [[2017 New York Liberty season|New York]] |2||2||16.0||'''60.0'''||0.0||72.7||'''4.0'''||2.5||1.5||0.0||'''1.0'''||'''13.0''' |- | align="left" | [[2018 WNBA season|2018]] | align="left" | [[2018 New York Liberty season|New York]] |30||14||'''20.4'''||41.4||37.0||'''77.4'''||3.9||'''5.3'''||1.2||0.1||2.7||6.4 |- | align="left" | [[2019 WNBA season|2019]] | align="left" | [[2019 New York Liberty season|New York]] |'''33'''||'''17'''||19.7||39.4||30.4||76.5||3.7||4.6||1.4||0.1||2.5||5.3 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | ''2020'' | colspan=13 align="center" | ''Did not play (waived)'' |- | align="left" | [[2021 WNBA season|2021]] | align="left" | [[2021 Chicago Sky season|Chicago]] |2||0||11.0||25.0||'''50.0'''||50.0||1.0||2.0||1.0||0.0||2.0||2.0 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | '''Career''' | align="left" | 6 years, 2 teams |130||46||18.4||39.2||26.9||73.4||3.2||3.9||1.4||0.1||2.2||6.2 {{S-end}}
====Playoffs==== {{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA playoff statistics}} |- | align="left" | [[2016 WNBA Playoffs|2016]] | align="left" | [[2016 New York Liberty season|New York]] |1||0||12.0||25.0||0.0||0.0||2.0||2.0||1.0||0.0||2.0||2.0 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | '''Career''' | align="left" | 1 year, 2 team |1||0||12.0||25.0||0.0||0.0||2.0||2.0||1.0||0.0||2.0||2.0 {{S-end}}
===College=== {| class="wikitable" |+NCAA statistics<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer|title=NCAA Statistics|website=web1.ncaa.org|access-date=2017-08-28}}</ref> |Year |Team |GP |Points |FG% |3P% |FT% |RPG |APG |SPG |BPG |PPG |- |2011-12 |[[California Golden Bears women's basketball|California]] |'''35''' |358 |37.5% |16.4% |58.6% |3.9 |4.8 |2.5 |0.2 |10.2 |- |[[2012–13 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2012-13]] |[[2012–13 California Golden Bears women's basketball team|California]] |'''35''' |438 |37.3% |28.7% |60.6% |5.4 |4.4 |2.6 |'''0.3''' |12.5 |- |[[2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2013-14]] |[[2013–14 California Golden Bears women's basketball team|California]] |31 |'''457''' |37.8% |24.3% |'''64.6%''' |6.6 |6.0 |2.9 |0.2 |'''14.7''' |- |[[2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2014-15]] |[[2014–15 California Golden Bears women's basketball team|California]] |33 |442 |'''41.1%''' |'''34.3%''' |62.7% |'''7.7''' |'''6.8''' |2.9 |0.1 |13.4 |- class="sortbottom" |colspan=2 align=center| '''Career''' |134 |1695 |38.4% |26.7% |61.9% |5.9 |5.5 |2.7 |0.2 |12.6 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons}} *[http://www.wnba.com/player/brittany-boyd/ WNBA profile] *[http://www.calbears.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=207769683 California Golden Bears bio]
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