2019 Chicago Sky season
Recipient Award Date awarded
Allie Quigley WNBA All-Star Selection July 15 , 2019
Diamond DeShields WNBA All-Star Selection July 15 , 2019
Diamond DeShields WNBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge Champion July 26 , 2019
Diamond DeShields All-WNBA Second Team October 6 , 2019
Courtney Vandersloot WNBA All-Star Selection July 15 , 2019
Courtney Vandersloot WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week August 26 , 2019
Courtney Vandersloot Peak Performer : Assists September 9 , 2019
Courtney Vandersloot All-WNBA First Team October 6 , 2019
James Wade Coach of the Year September 11 , 2019
Awards and honors
The 2019 Chicago Sky season was the franchise's 14th season in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The regular season tipped off on May 25 and concluded on September 8. On August 22, the team clinched a playoff berth for the first time in three seasons. During the offseason, Amber Stocks was dismissed by the team as general manager and head coach. In November, James Wade was announced as the team's new head coach. Wade was previously an assistant with UMMC Ekaterinburg and the Minnesota Lynx. Three Sky players, all guards, were named as reserves to the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game: veterans Allie Quigley and Courtney Vandersloot, and second-year player Diamond DeShields. At the end of the season, The Sky finished second in points per game, but second-to-last in points allowed. DeShields was team's leading scorer with 16.2 points per game, and Vandersloot broke her own all-time record with 9.1 assists per game. Vandersloot and DeShields were named to the first and second All-WNBA Teams respectively. In the first round of the 2019 WNBA Playoffs, fifth-seeded team Sky hosted the eighth-seeded Phoenix Mercury, whom they defeated 105-76 in a single-elimination game. They lost their second-round single-elimination game on the road to the Las Vegas Aces by a score of 93-92 in the final seconds.