Shey Peddy

Personal: Peddy is the daughter of Lisa Peddy and Terrance Williams and has two brothers. Peddy lists current UConn assistant women’s basketball coach Tonya Cardoza as a person who has made a difference in her life. She models her game after Alana Beard, Tamika Catchings, and Ray Allen. Her hobbies include baking, photography, and watching movies and television shows. She lists meeting Stephen Curry as a time when she felt starstruck. Her proudest accomplishment is buying her first house, and she chose to wear No. 34 in honor of Ray Allen.

2025 Season: Peddy was selected as the Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball Defensive Player of the Year and claimed 12th place in the league with 3,741 leaderboard points. She was one of five players named to the league’s All-Defensive Team. She recorded six double-digit scoring performances, including a season-high 20 points against Team Caldwell on February 20. Peddy appeared in all 12 games and started in each of her final five outings, including all three fixtures during Week Four. She earned MVP 3 distinction on February 19 against Team Harrison after making 6-of-8 shots from the floor in a 15-point performance. She also grabbed three rebounds with three assists and three drawn fouls en route to a season-high 624 leaderboard points. Peddy closed Week Three by collecting 510 leaderboard points after making 4-of-7 field goal attempts in addition to 3-of-4 free throws against Team Sims. She contributed 11 points with a season-high six rebounds against Team Siegrist on March 1.

Other Professional Experience: Peddy is a six-year WNBA veteran who has started 34-of-131 career games. Peddy was selected by the Chicago Sky with the No. 23 overall choice in the 2012 WNBA Draft. She owns career averages of 5.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per game. She made her WNBA debut with Washington during the 2019 season, appearing in 15 games as a reserve. She split the 2020 campaign between Washington and Phoenix, seeing action in nine games with the Mystics before being signed by Phoenix for the remainder of the season. She made eight appearances with the Mercury and averaged 4.0 points and 3.0 rebounds per outing. She posted a 5.4 scoring average with Phoenix during the 2021 campaign while earning a starting assignment in 5-of-32 games. Peddy enjoyed her best season of her WNBA career in 2022 after boasting 9.9 points per game in Phoenix. She also started a career-best 24 games while guiding the Mercury to a 15-19 record. She contributed 5.2 points per game in 18 appearances during the 2023 campaign. Peddy returned to the WNBA for the 2025 season, splitting time between Los Angeles and Indiana, where she started 5-of-6 games with the Sparks before appearing in nine games with Indiana. She has also played overseas in Turkey and Latvia, and guided the London Lions to the 2023 Euro Cup title

At Temple and Wright State: Peddy spent her first two years of her college career at Wright State before transferring to Temple after the 2008-09 season. She played in 125 total games with 121 starts and accumulated 1,899 points during her college career while grabbing 553 rebounds with 456 assists. She was a four-time All-Conference selection, including three First-Team nods, and is the third player in Temple history to be selected in the WNBA Draft. Peddy was honored as the 2011-12 Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. She earned Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Year recognition in both seasons at Temple in addition to being named First-Team All-Philadelphia Big 5. She received a spot on the Philadelphia Big 5 All-Defensive Team in both years with the Owls. She was selected as the 2007-08 Horizon League Newcomer of the Year as a freshman at Wright State. Peddy stands as Temple’s single-season leader with 104 steals during the 2010-11 campaign and is the only player in Temple history with 100 or more steals in a season, reaching the mark in both years. She also ranks 23rd on the Owls’ career scoring list with 1,045 points over two years and ranks 10th in Temple history with 206 steals. She also holds ninth place in Temple history with a .464 career field goal percentage and 128 made three-point field goals. She shot 79.8 percent from the free throw line in two seasons at Temple, which is good for third in program history. Peddy led the Atlantic 10 in scoring during her final season at Temple with a 17.6 average and also ranked second in the league by registering 3.1 steals per game. She set a program record by making 77 three-pointers and matched the Temple single-game standard with 10 steals against Rhode Island. She paced the Owls with a 14.1 scoring average during the 2010-11 season. Peddy was a Second-Team All-Horizon League pick at Wright State as a sophomore who also garnered All-Defensive Team plaudits. She was a starter in 27-of-29 games who ranked second on the team by averaging 12.1 points per game. She also paced the Horizon League with 86 steals during her sophomore campaign. She opened her college career by earning a spot on the All-Horizon League First Team in addition to the league’s All-Defensive Team. She averaged 16.7 points per contest while earning a starting assignment in 29-of-30 games, where she shot a career-best 53.9 percent from the field and 39.3 percent from three-point range.