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INDIANAPOLIS - Immediately following its 89-84 preseason win over the Los Angeles Sparks, the Indiana Fever has waived Coretta Brown and Lenae Williams.

Brown had been a three-year player for the Fever, arriving in a draft day trade prior to the 2003 season when she was a first-round pick of the San Antonio Silver Stars. The highlight of her career was a 26-point effort in a double-overtime win at Connecticut as a rookie, which was the most by a WNBA rookie that season. She averaged 4.9 points per game in 62 career games for Indiana. Due in part to injuries, her playing time diminished in 2004, and she saw action in just six games in 2005.

Williams was a free agent signed by the Fever in February who, while playing in Greece last winter, averaged 19.7 points per game. Drafted in 2002 by Detroit, she appeared in 32 games for the Shock before being traded to Phoenix prior to the 2003 season. She was waived in the Mercury's training camp and had not played in the WNBA since.

The cuts reduce the Fever's roster to 12 players, with its regular-season roster complete as follows.

2006 INDIANA FEVER ROSTER No Player Pos Ht Wt Birthdate SCHOOL/Year wnba YEARS 22 La'Tangela Atkinson F 6-2 169 3/22/84 North Carolina '06 R

41 Tully Bevilaqua G 5-7 145 7/19/72 Australia 7

24 Tamika Catchings F 6-1 167 7/21/79 Tennessee '01 5

30 Anna DeForge G 5-10 160 4/14/76 Nebraska '98 4

13 Linda Fröhlich F 6-2 178 6/23/79 Nevada-Las Vegas '02 2

32 Ebony Hoffman F 6-2 215 8/27/82 USC '04 2

0 Olympia Scott C 6-2 175 8/5/76 Stanford '98 7

3 K.B. Sharp G 5-9 149 4/18/81 Cincinnati '03 2

23 Charlotte Smith F 6-0 148 8/23/73 North Carolina '95 7

35 Kasha Terry C 6-3 185 10/21/83 Georgia Tech '06 R

15 Tan White G 5-7 154 9/27/82 Mississippi State '05 1

91 Tamika Whitmore F 6-2 190 6/5/77 Memphis State '99 7

Indiana begins the 2006 regular season when it hosts the Detroit Shock on Saturday, May 20 (7:00 p.m.).

Single-game tickets for all Fever home games may be purchased at the Conseco Fieldhouse Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations including the Internet (Ticketmaster.com or ConsecoFieldhouse.com), or phone at (877) WNBA-TIX, in addition to select state-wide Marsh stores and Home Court II in Circle Centre Mall. For season ticket information, call (317) 917-2500.