The Atlanta Dream, the WNBA's newest franchise, open the season today at the Connecticut Sun. Here's a quick look at some members of the team before the franchise's first regular-season game.

> The franchise's first draft pick was Tamera Young. Selected in the first round in April's WNBA draft, she is the first player from James Madison ever selected.

> Ann Strother won two national championships while at the University of Connecticut. They are the only national championships represented on the Dream roster.

> Kristin Haynie is the only player in the league to have played in the NCAA finals and WNBA finals in the same year. In 2005, Haynie and Michigan State lost the NCAA championship to Baylor her senior season, and she won the WNBA title as a rookie with Sacramento.

> Betty Lennox was named the WNBA Finals MVP in 2004, leading Seattle to the league championship by averaging more than 22 points a game.

> Rookie Chioma Nnamaka holds the Georgia Tech career record for most 3-pointers made —- 269.

> Carla Thomas was twice named the SEC women's tournament MVP playing for Vanderbilt. The last was in 2007.

> Ivory Latta and Camille Little played together in two Final Fours while at North Carolina.

> Jennifer Lacy's father, Lee, played major league baseball. He was on four teams from 1972-87, including part of one season with the Braves.

> Dream center Katie Feenstra and Washington's Lindsay Taylor are the tallest players in the WNBA. Each is 6 feet 8.

> Coach and general manager Marynell Meadors was the first women's basketball coach at Tennessee Tech, where she won more than 300 games.

NEXT FOR DREAM

> Who: at Sun

> When: 4 p.m. today

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