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Sydney Colson

Sydney Justine Colson (born August 6, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at Texas A&M University, where she helped the Aggies win the 2011 NCAA title. She has previously played for the New York Liberty, San Antonio Stars, Minnesota Lynx, Chicago Sky, and the Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA, and overseas in Poland and Israel. Colson is a two-time WNBA champion, winning back-to-back titles with the Aces in 2022 and 2023.

Colson was born in Houston, Texas, to Simmie and Stephanie Colson. She grew up watching the WNBA's Houston Comets, who began play in 1997, when Colson was in elementary school.

She attended Westside High School, where she was a National Honor Society member. During her sophomore year in 2005, she was named 5A All-District First Team and All-Greater Houston Second Team selection. As a junior, Colson earned All-Greater Houston honors, averaging 16.2 points and 4.2 assists per game. A heavily recruited prospect, Colson was rated the 29th overall prospect and the no. 8 point guard in the Class of 2007.

Recruited by future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach Gary Blair, Colson committed to Texas A&M University over offers from LSU and Oklahoma.

Colson was a four-year letter winner for the Aggies between 2008 and 2011, and is tied for being the winningest player in program history. She majored in sociology.

Colson spent her freshman season as a reserve on the first Texas A&M team to reach the Elite Eight in program history, backing up point guard A'Quonesia Franklin. She played in all 37 games that season, with two starts against Indiana and Stephen F. Austin, and was one of just three Aggies to see action in every game that year.

As a sophomore, Colson tore her ACL during a pickup basketball game in June 2008 after working as a counselor at a Texas A&M basketball camp. Colson successfully rehabilitated the injury, returning to play eight minutes in the Aggies' season opener on November 14, 2008, against Mercer, 128 days after undergoing surgery to repair the torn ligament.

During her junior season, Colson captained the Aggies to a Big 12 Tournament Championship in 2010.

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