Career
She formerly played for the San Antonio Stars in the Women's National Basketball Association and the West Coast Waves in Australia"s WNBL. The 5"7" Bevilaqua"s play style is energetic and disruptive, so much so that she is usually in the top 10 in steals. In the 2005 regular season, she had more steals per turnover than any other player. Bevilaqua was never drafted by a Women's National Basketball Association team
She was signed by the Cleveland Rockers as a free agent before the 1998 season began, but played only 12 regular-season games for them before being waived by the team on July 1998.
In 2000, she signed a free agent contract with the Portland Fire and played with them for three seasons until the franchise folded after the 2002 season. In 2005, she signed with the Indiana Fever, and led them to a #2 seed in the playoffs, where they swept the New York Liberty in two games, but in turn were swept by the Connecticut Sun in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Despite Bevilaqua"s Women's National Basketball Association success, she failed to make the Australian national team until 2006 at the age of 34, when she helped lead the Opals to the gold medal in the 2006 International Basketball Federation World Championship for Women. Bevilaqua is one of only four Women's National Basketball Association players to record at least 800 career assists and 500 career steals.
One of the highlights of Bevilaqua"s career was her participation on the 2004 Seattle Storm championship team
Bevilaqua"s role in the series was backup point guard to Sue Bird and Betty Lennox, but she contributed in every phase of the game—scoring, rebounding, and playing the tenacious defense that has become her trademark on the Indiana Fever. Though listed as a backup guard, in the course of the Storm"s 2004 championship run Bevilaqua played unusually long minutes. This was most evident in the second game against the Minnesota Lynx.
Sue Bird was injured early in the game, and Women's National Basketball Association Finals Most Valuable Player Betty Lennox quickly got into foul trouble.
Storm coach Anne Donovan sent Bevilaqua in to run the offense, and she played 27 minutes to carry the team to victory. The Seattle crowd chanted her name repeatedly during the game.
Bevilaqua played Australian rules football as a youth. Her hobbies include: karaoke singing, golfing, tennis, cricket, and reading Patricia Cornwell"s novels.
Bevilaqua"s height is listed at 5"7" (about 170 cm) in the Women's National Basketball Association but only 164 cm (about 5"45") in the WNBL. Bevilaqua wrote a regular column in the Canberra Times on the progress of the Canberra Capitals during the 2006/07 WNBL season.
Bevilaqua helped launch women specific Nfinity Basketball Shoes in 2009.