Bridget Pettis’ journey from WNBA to gardening. As a professional basketball player who played six seasons with the Phoenix Mercury and two with the Indiana Fever, Pettis was physically healthy.

Pettis helped guide the Phoenix Mercury to two WNBA titles in 2007 and 2009 as an assistant coach, a position she held from 2006 to 2009. She currently holds the same position with the Chicago Sky.

Bridget Pettis, left, an E.C. Central graduate and former WNBA player, talks with CNN news anchor Wolf Blitzer last week during a presentation at the East Chicago school.

After being a part of the WNBA for more than two decades, Sky assistant coach Bridget Pettis on Saturday has decided to call it quits just weeks before the 2020 season, citing increasing health ...

Bridget Pettis, one of the original players for the Phoenix Mercury, is leaving her assistant coaching job with the Chicago Sky. She instead will focus on Project Roots AZ, ...

The opportunity to come back home was too good for Bridget Pettis to ignore. Basketball has taken Pettis all over the country, but it’s never brought the 1989 East Chicago Central graduate as ...

Life after basketball isn't exactly what Bridget Pettis had planned. The former Phoenix Mercury star traded the gym for the garden. "I never thought I'd be a farmer," Pettis said.

Pettis spent six seasons with the Mercury as a player (1997-2001, 2006) and scored the very first points in franchise history in the team’s inaugural season in 1997.

Bridget Pettis working to create a healthier community. By: Cameron Polom. Posted . and last updated. PHOENIX — Tucked on a plot of land in south Phoenix, a new effort is being championed to ...

PHOENIX- On Friday, Bridget Pettis, a Phoenix Mercury Ring of Honor member, attended the Valley Suns game, which the night was dedicated to the Phoenix Mercury as a part of Women’s History Month.

Pettis, who was an original member of the Mercury from 1997-2001, returned to the team on April 20, 2006. Pettis averaged 1.3 points, 0.8 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 11 games for the Mercury this ...

Pettis spent 12 years in the league as a player, assistant coach and director of basketball operations for the Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever. She retired from her front-office job with the ...