Matee Ajavon is a Liberian American player in the Women's National Basketball Association for the Atlanta Dream.
Education
Ajavon graduated from Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey. She led the Shabazz girls" basketball team to victory in the State of New Jersey"s "Tournament of Champions" in both 2003 and 2004, the first time a school had repeated as champion. Ajavon was named a WBCA All-American.
She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored nine points.
Ajavon graduated from in 2008, having majored in Africana Studies.
She was a key member of the 2006–2007 Scarlet Knights women"s basketball team that reached the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship game.
Career
A 5"8" guard, Ajavon was chosen by the Houston Comets as the fifth overall draft pick in the 2008 Women's National Basketball Association Draft. As a child, Ajavon immigrated to the United States with her family from Monrovia, Liberia. Source Ajavon played for the United States of America team in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ajavon played primarily off the bench during her rookie Women's National Basketball Association season, but averaged 8.0 points per game.
When the Houston Comets folded in 2008, Ajavon was selected second in the dispersal draft by the Washington Mystics. During the 2008–2010 Women's National Basketball Association offseason, Ajavon played in the EuroLeague Women for Fenerbahçe Istanbul.
In her first season with Washington, Ajavon put up remarkably similar numbers to her first Women's National Basketball Association campaign. Again mainly playing as a reserve, she scored 8.0 points per game.
Ajavon helped the Mystics reach the playoffs, where she played well, scoring 19 points in just 34 total minutes, but Washington suffered a two-game sweep at the hands of the Indiana Fever.
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Membership
She was a key member of the 2006–2007 Scarlet Knights women"s basketball team that reached the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship game.
