Bill No. 22-51 Skylar Diggins-Smith Special Resolution

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BILL NO. 22-51 OCT 18 2027 DAWN M. JONES SPECIAL RESOLUTION NO. 4985-22 CITY CLERK, SOUTH BEND, IN A SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA HONORING SKYLAR DIGGINS-SMITH FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOUTH BEND'S LEGACY OF PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS BY BEING THE FIRST CITY NATIVE SELECTED IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE WNBA DRAFT ~ Skylar Kierra Diggins was born in South Bend, Indiana on August 2, 1990; and ~ Skylar attended Washington High School where she was the third Lady Panther to score 500 points in a single season, doing so four times from 2006-2009, leading the Lady Panthers to the State title game each year and the championship in 2007; and ~ Skylar finished her high school career with 2,790 points, and winning national honors including the Naismith Prep Player of the Year, Gatorade National Player of the Year, Gatorade Female Athlete of the year and Miss Indiana Basketball; and ~ Skylar's basketball career continued at the University of Notre Dame where, before graduating in 2013, she started all but two games in her final three years, giving up her starting position on February 23, 2011, and February 26, 2012, for walk-on senior teammates starting for the first and only times in their careers on Senior Day; and ~ during Skylar's years at Notre Dame, the Irish won 130 games , went to three Final Fours, and two national championship games; and ~ Skylar completed her collegiate career playing in 150 games with school records in points (2,357), steals, free throws made, free throws attempted, games started, minutes played, double-figure scoring games, triple-doubles and winning the Nancy Lieberman Award as the nation's top point guard twice; and ~ among the many highlights of Skylar's incredible collegiate career is being one of only six college players (women and men) since 1999-2000 to compile 2 ,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 steals; ~ on April 15, 2013, Skylar was a WNBA lottery pick and selected in the first round , the third overall pick, by the Tulsa Shock, the first South Bend native drafted in the first round by a WNBA team; and ~ Skylar scored another first when, in 2020 she became the first South Bend native to win an Olympic gold medal in basketball; and ~ during her continuing WNBA career, Skylar has been a six-time WNBA All-Star, ranking in the top-10 in scoring four times, assists four times , and steals, three times; and