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SEATTLE - The Seattle Storm today re-signed 6-0 guard Iziane Castro Marques to a contract, Storm Head Coach and Director of Player Personnel Anne Donovan announced.



Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.



During the 2005 WNBA season Castro Marques appeared in 33 games, starting 32 times and averaged career highs in points (8.2), rebounds (2.9), assists (1.5) and minutes (26.6). She ranked 14th in the league in free-throw percentage (.808) and scored in double figures nine times, leading the Storm in scoring twice. Castro Marques scored a career-high 20 points on 7-for-10 shooting on July 19 vs. New York.



Castro Marques originally signed with the Miami Sol on April 25, 2002. During the 2002 WNBA season she played as the league's second youngest player at only 20 years of age. She signed with the Phoenix Mercury as a free agent on April 15, 2003 and was waived on May 19, 2004.



The Storm will open their 2006 season on against Western Conference rival Los Angeles at KeyArena beginning at 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 21. The team's season opener will be broadcast locally on FSN Northwest. The following Tuesday, May 23, Seattle will host the Houston Comets at 8 p.m. The Houston game will be televised to a national audience on ESPN2.



Single-game tickets for all of the Storm's 2006 regular-season home games, as well as their May 7 preseason game against the New York Liberty at KeyArena, will go on sale Monday, May 1 at 10 a.m. All Storm home games will be played at the Key this summer, the team's seventh season in the WNBA. For additional information on 2006 Storm single-game tickets or ticket packages, call 206-217-WNBA or log on to storm.wnba.com.



The Seattle Sonics & Storm organization manages the Puget Sound region's professional basketball franchises - the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics and the WNBA's Seattle Storm. The organization oversees all sales, marketing, finance, public relations and basketball operations for the teams. The Basketball Club of Seattle LLC owns both teams.