Alana Beard
Alana Beard
Alana Monique Beardis an American professional women's basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association. She was the first Duke women's basketball player to have her jersey numberretired. She resides in the Washington, DC area, where she is founder and President of the Alana Beard Foundation. The foundation currently sponsors 7 AAU teams. Six teams are located in Maryland called Alana Beard's Future and one team in Shreveport, Louisiana called the Southern Mystics...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth14 May 1982
CityShreveport, LA
In the first half, we allowed them to do whatever they wanted,
It's going to be tough. It will say a lot about where we are as a team. It will say a lot about where we end up this season. This is a big trip, no doubt.
Oh, it was nothing all that serious. It was just a case of two competitive people doing everything they could to help their team win.
The key to playing Detroit is being ready to play physical basketball. They are very physical, and they aren't going to give you anything easy. We have to be ready to match that.
I'm going to use this disappointment as motivation for getting better, ... It was a hard year, the whole year, I'm not going to lie. I don't feel that I have played like I'm capable of playing.