Sydney Colson

Personal: Colson is a member of Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball’s Player Executive Committee and served as its chairperson from 2022-23. She aspires to become a sports reporter after her playing career is finished. Her hobbies include reading, watching television shows and movies, including comedy, crime, and psychological thrillers, and learning Spanish. She also enjoys spending time with friends and family. She served as an assistant coach at Rice University from 2015-17, leading the Owls to the 2016-17 WBI title. She is the co-star of “The Syd + TP Show” with fellow Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball player Theresa Plaisance.

2024 Season: Colson enjoyed the best finish of her Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball career after earning 11th place with 4,219 leaderboard points and was one of five players named to the league’s All-Defensive Team. She appeared in 11 games and earned a starting assignment in the final eight contests. She fashioned an 8.5 scoring average while grabbing 2.6 rebounds per outing. She ranked third in the circuit with 67 assists while collecting 19 steals and led the league with a .514 three-point field goal percentage after making 18-of-35 attempts. She registered four double-digit scoring outputs and was a two-time Game MVP recipient. Colson converted 8-of-9 field goal attempts, including all four three-pointers, in a 20-point effort against Team Mitchell on March 16 to claim MVP 3 distinction and a career-high 674 leaderboard points. She authored a double-double of 13 points and a season-high 12 assists against Team Sims on March 22 to earn MVP 3 accolades and 606 leaderboard points. She scored 14 points and dished out five assists against Team Sims on March 9 and also tallied 10 points and nine assists in the Week Three opener against Team Sims.

2023 Season: Colson accumulated 3,014 leaderboard points to finish her second Athletes Unlimited season in 28th place and ranked 15th in the league with 1,324 stat points. She reached 300 or more leaderboard points in a game four times, including three efforts with 400 or more points. She set an Athletes Unlimited career-high with 520 leaderboard points against Team Harrison to begin Week Two and was one of nine players to wear all four jersey colors during the season. She was third in the league with a .420 three-point field goal percentage after making 20-of-46 attempts and dished out 73 assists to rank fourth in the circuit. As a starter in 11 of 15 games, she averaged 9.9 points and 2.1 rebounds per appearance. She registered seven double-digit scoring performances, including a pair of 20-point outings. She netted an Athletes Unlimited career-high 24 points against Team Sims to finish Week Four, where she made 9-of-15 field goal attempts, including a 4-of-6 effort from beyond the arc, while dishing out six assists. She also opened Week Four with a 20-point showing against Team Bell. She set a season-high with nine assists in Week One against Team Sims and finished the season with 38 assists over the last six games, including a pair of eight-assist efforts.

2022 Season: Colson closed her inaugural season in 12th place on the leaderboard with 4,162 points and authored 400 or more points in a game five times, including a season-high 481 points against Team Cloud on February 11. She earned three game MVP awards, including a pair of MVP 1 commendations, and ranked second in the league with 104 assists, including three games with 10 or more assists. She led her team in assists in 10-of-15 appearances and fashioned seven or more assists in 7-of-15 games. She was ninth in the league with 456 minutes played while starting all 15 games and also finished 10th in the league with 146 field goal attempts and 62 three-point field goal attempts. She registered 10 double-digit scoring efforts, including two games with 20 or more points. She set a season-high with 20 points on 9-of-18 shooting from the field on February 11 against Team Cloud and also dished out nine assists. She led Team Hawkins to a February 18 victory over Team Cloud, where she matched her season-high with 20 points, including the game-winning three-pointer from beyond midcourt in overtime. She shot 6-for-9 from the field in the win while converting all six free throws in 38 minutes. Colson finished the season with a flourish, authoring a double-double in her last two games. She scored 13 points with 10 assists against Team Harrison on February 25 before a 13-point, 10-assist effort in a triple-overtime victory against Team Cloud. She opened the season with back-to-back double-digit scoring efforts, netting 15 points in the season opener against Team Carrington before contributing 16 points in a victory over Team Sims.



Other Professional Experience: Colson is an eleven-year WNBA veteran who has played in 241 career games. She was drafted with the No. 16 overall selection by the Connecticut Sun in the 2011 WNBA Draft and has spent time with five different teams (Connecticut, New York, San Antonio, Las Vegas, and Minnesota). She enjoyed her best season in 2016 when she averaged 5.1 points per game in 34 contests for San Antonio. She helped the Las Vegas Aces win the 2022 WNBA title after appearing in 18 regular-season games, where she averaged 1.6 points per contest during the regular season, including a pair of five-point performances. She was re-signed by Las Vegas for the 2023 season on February 7, 2023, and guided Las Vegas to a second straight WNBA crown after seeing action in 28 games off the bench. She was nominated for the inaugural PBWA Tamika Catchings Award following the 2023 season and appeared in 31 games for Las Vegas in 2024. She has also played professionally in Poland and Israel. She led Sleza Wroclaw to the Polish EBLK semifinals in 2018-19 after scoring in double figures 14 times and earned Eurobasket.com All-Israeli League Honorable Mention distinction in 2017-18 with H.R. Le-Zion. She recorded 11 double-figure scoring efforts during the 2012-13 campaign while helping Lider Pruszkow reach the Polish Cup semifinals.

At Texas A&M: Colson was a three-time team captain for Texas A&M, where she led the Aggies to a pair of Big 12 Tournament titles. She played in 138 career games, the fifth-most in program history, and started 86 games. She was named an Honorable Mention Associated Press All-America and All-Big 12 Conference selection in 2010-11. She is fifth in Texas A&M history with 504 career assists and fourth on the Aggies’ all-time list with 255 steals. She dished out 15 assists against Nebraska on March 5, 2011, which ranks fifth in school history, and led the Aggies with a .377 three-point field goal percentage as a senior. She paced Texas A&M in assists for three straight years and finished her career with 853 points (6.2 ppg).