Plank joined the Mystics following a season with the Minnesota Lynx, assistant coaching Olympian Seimone Augustus and 2008 Sixth Player/Woman of the Year, Candice Wiggins.
Augustus | Augustus John | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Augustus Pugin | Augustus II the Strong | Augustus De Morgan | Charles Augustus FitzRoy | F. Augustus Heinze | Ernest Augustus I of Hanover | Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Sigismund II Augustus | Augustus III of Poland | Augustus (honorific) | Seimone Augustus | George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield | Frank Augustus Miller | Augustus Pablo | Augustus Noble Hand | Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex | Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia | Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg | Frederick Augustus II | Fort Augustus | Ernest Augustus Taylor | Charles Augustus Wheaton | Augustus Leopold Kuper | Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel | Augustus Jessopp | Augustus Hamilton | 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House |
The Lynx returned their core nucleus of Seimone Augustus, Rebekkah Brunson, Maya Moore, and Lindsay Whalen, all of whom played on the Lynx's 2011 championship team.
Also, Clarissa Davis of the University of Texas, Dawn Staley of the University of Virginia, Chamique Holdsclaw of the University of Tennessee, Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore of the University of Connecticut, and Seimone Augustus of Louisiana State University won the award twice apiece.