Christi Thomas
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Christi Thomas plays professional basketball in the WNBA
Women's National Basketball Association
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. She attended the University of Georgia
University of Georgia
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 where she played under coach Andy Landers
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. She has been a professional since 2004. Christi also played basketball at Buford High School in Buford, Georgia
Buford, Georgia
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, where she led the Wolves to a State Runner-Up finish in 1999. She's 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and weighs 185 lb (84 kg). On January 30, 2009 Thomas was traded to the Minnesota Lynx
Minnesota Lynx
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for Vanessa Hayden-Johnson.

She is the daughter of Charles Maurice Thomas and Delores Thomas. The grand-daughter of Carolyn Faulkner Thomas.

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