Healed Wiggins is ready for second season.

Her right knee has healed. Her game is improving. Her attitude is upbeat. After a whirlwind year in 2008, Candice Wiggins is preparing to return to Minnesota and rejoin the Lynx, hopefully as a starter. Last season Wiggins was named the WNBA’s Sixth Player of the Year as a rookie.http://www.startribune.com/sports/lynx/41188972.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUo8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Lynx Rookie Candice Wiggins Soaks in Every Second.

If 2008 were to end today, it would already be an amazing year for Candice Wiggins. So far, the 21-year-old daughter of former Padre Alan Wiggins has led Stanford to the NCAA title game, won the Wade Trophy as Player of the Year, been selected 3rd overall in the WNBA Draft and helped the turn [...]

Wiggins impressing new crowd.

The coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx sighed over the phone when asked about his rookie star, Candice Wiggins. “She’s a gem, isn’t she?” Don Zierden said. The answer is unequivocally yes. Anyone who saw Wiggins at Stanford knew she was a gem. Not only a star player but also an impressive young woman. [...]

Candice Wiggins’ Competitive fire refuses to fade.

Wiggins, the third overall pick in this year’s WNBA draft, had few peers in college, and none at her position by her senior year. And on Sunday, Wiggins, wearing No. 11 as usual, will play for the Lynx in the team’s WNBA regular-season opener against Detroit at Target Center. “I’m excited,” the 5-11 1/2 [...]

Wiggins picks up where she left off.

Candice Wiggins drove into the lane and made a sweet-looking, 5-foot jump shot Thursday midway through the first quarter. The shot felt as good to her as it looked. In the Lynx’ first exhibition game, Wiggins didn’t start, but scored 11 seconds after she came in. She was seven of 16 from the field, making [...]

Lynx rookie Candice Wiggins learned much from a father she barely knew.

Minnesota Lynx rookie Candice Wiggins barely knew her famous father. But she is proud to be the daughter of the late Alan Wiggins, despite his misdeeds and fall from major league baseball stardom. His years of drug use that paved the way to his death in 1991 of AIDS-related complications have served as a springboard [...]