Anne Donovan has a proven track record as an WNBA coach.

“We’ve been a very up-and-down team,” Donovan said, according to ESPN.com. “Not just from game to game, but from quarter to quarter, minute to minute. We all know we have to be more consistent with that.”

After making a pretty good run in the playoffs last season, the Liberty are now 7½ games behind first-place Indiana and two behind Atlanta and Chicago for the fourth and final playoff spot in the East.

If anyone can help get the Liberty back to playoff contention, it’s Donovan. She led the U.S. women to a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics last year, and has a winning record of 138-128 as a WNBA coach with Indiana, Charlotte and Seattle.

Donovan was also  inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1995, and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. She was the first female coach in the WNBA to win 100 games, setting that standard back in 2005.

Basically put, this is a woman who knows how to coach.

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Though Courtney Paris shed tears only a couple days earlier after failing to make it to the championship game, on Wednesday she was all smiles when she was drafted 7th by the Sacramento Monarchs.

The number one overall pick went to Angel McCoughtry, the former Louisville All-American who will now be part of the Atlanta Dream.

Here’s a recap of the Top 10 2009 WNBA Draft picks in full:

1. Atlanta Dream — Angel McCoughtry
2. Washington Mystics — Marissa Coleman
3. Chicago Sky — Kristi Toliver
4. Minnesota Lynx — Renee Montgomery
5. Phoenix Mercury — DeWanna Bonner
6. Indiana Fever — Briann January
7. Sacramento Monarchs — Courtney Paris
8. New York Liberty — Kia Vaughn
9. Minnesota Lynx — Quanitra Hollingsworth
10. Connecticut Sun — Chante Black

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Top Ten Of 2009 WNBA Draft