PHOENIX – The three-time WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury have re-signed versatile guard/forward DeWanna Bonner, the team announced today. Bonner who has spent her entire career with the Mercury since being drafted by the club in 2009, owns career averages of 13.2 points and 4.1 rebounds in 200 career games played.

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“DeWanna is one of the best players in the world, and she has always selflessly put the team’s needs ahead of her own,” said Mercury General Manager Jim Pitman. “In her young career, we have already seen her prove herself as an elite scorer, and last year she took the challenge of defending our opponent’s best player every night. She has won awards as the league’s best bench player, and last season started every game as the anchor of our championship defense, and a key part of our outstanding team chemistry. We are thrilled to have her continue in a Mercury uniform.”

A two-time WNBA Champion with the Mercury (2009, 2014), Bonner is a three-time WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year award winner (2009, 2010, 2011) and is the only player in league history to win the award multiple times. In 2014, she started every game for Phoenix and has played in 200 of a possible 204 regular season games.

Bonner, 27, anchored the WNBA’s best defensive team in 2014, averaging a team-best 1.50 steals per game (10^th-WNBA) and nightly took the assignment of guarding the opponent’s top scorer. This helped the Mercury to a league- record 29-5 (.853) mark, and to a franchise-record 16-game win streak in 2014, the second-longest in league history.

The 6-foot-4 forward ranks second on the Mercury all-time list in rebounds (1197), third in games played (200), third in steals (221) and fourth in points (2634). Over her career, she is tied with Candice Dupree for the most 20-point, 10-rebound games in franchise history with 13. Her 24 double-doubles and 28 double-digit rebounding games also rank among the most in franchise history. She finished third in the WNBA in scoring in 2012, averaging a career-best 20.6 points. She is the fourth player in team history to average 20 or more points for a regular season (Diana Taurasi, Cappie Pondexter and Jennifer Gillom).

Bonner was drafted by Phoenix with the fifth overall pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft after being named the 2009 SEC Player of the Year at Auburn University where she set a career scoring record at the school. She has spent the last three WNBA off seasons playing in Russia and was named a 2011 and 2012 Euroleague All-Star while playing in Spain.