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Cass Bauer-Bilodeau

American basketball player (born 1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3661894
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Cassandra Sue Bauer-Bilodeau (née Bauer; born June 27, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player in the American Basketball League (ABL) and Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Montana State Bobcats.

Basketball career

A native of Hysham, Montana, she graduated in 1994 from Montana State University, where she played for the Bobcats, and earned a degree in nursing. She led the Bobcats to their first championship in the Big Sky Conference.

She began her professional career in 1996 with the Columbus Quest in the now-defunct ABL. She became the ABL's all-time free throw percentage leader, making 147 out of 168 free throws for an average of 87 percent.

After the ABL folded due to financial difficulties, she joined the WNBA from 1999 to 2002, playing for the Charlotte Sting, the Washington Mystics, and the Sacramento Monarchs. Citing pain in her right knee, she announced her retirement shortly before the 2003 season.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

College

Personal life

In 2000, she married her longtime boyfriend, Brent Bilodeau, an American/Canadian professional ice hockey player who was playing in the East Coast Hockey League. Her son, Tyler Bilodeau, plays for the UCLA Bruins.

She subsequently moved with her family to Las Vegas, Nevada, and worked as a critical care and emergency department registered nurse.

Editorial summary

“Cass Bauer-Bilodeau” enters the record as american basketball player (born 1972). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cass, Bauer-Bilodeau and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1994, 1996, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-06-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cass, Bauer-Bilodeau and American.
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Why this record matters

“Cass Bauer-Bilodeau” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cass, Bauer-Bilodeau and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3661894. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1994, 1996 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from Cass Bauer-Bilodeau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.