SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Sue Bird and her Connecticut teammates extended their dominant season to the WNBA draft.

	Sue Bird, left, becomes the first point guard taken No. 1 in the WNBA draft.

Bird was picked first by the Seattle Storm, one of four players taken from the unbeaten NCAA champion Huskies in the top six selections Friday. Swin Cash was selected No. 2 by Detroit, Asjha Jones fourth by Washington and Tamika Williams sixth by Minnesota.

"That's why we went undefeated and won a national championship this year," Bird said. "If anything can show you, it's that. I'm so happy for the other girls."

UConn's senior class finished with a career record of 136-9, three Final Four trips and two NCAA championships.

Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma got to stand back and be satisfied for a minute.

"To see the families and their faces, it makes you feel good," Auriemma said. "The challenge now is going to a program and turning it into the program they just left. That's the price you pay for being really good."

Connecticut is the first school to have four players selected in the first round of the WNBA draft.

"This sums it all up," Williams said. "As for this class, everybody is on a high."

Washington also chose Oklahoma's Stacey Dales-Schuman with the No. 3 selection -- the highest spot for a Canadian player -- and the fifth pick was North Carolina guard Nikki Teasley to Portland. The Fire then traded Teasley and veteran guard Sophia Witherspoon to the Los Angeles Sparks for starting point guard Ukari Figgs and second-round draft pick Gergana Slavtcheva, a guard from Florida International.

"It's been an exciting month," Dales-Schuman said. "Final Four, marriage, draft, graduation. Four big things in my life. I wouldn't trade any of it. It's been a really special time."

The Mystics used Tennessee coach Pat Summitt as their draft consultant to select Dales-Schuman and Jones to complement All-Star Chamique Holdsclaw.

Dales, who played for the Canadian Olympic team in 2000, can play point guard, shooting guard or forward. "There's not a more versatile perimeter player in this position," Summitt said. "She's a winner."

Dales-Schuman is looking forward to playing with Jones, whose UConn team beat the Sooners 82-70 in the national title game.

"She's one of the toughest players I've come across," she said. "Her physical stature and mentality for the game. I'll take Asjha on my team rather than playing against her."

Baylor's Sheila Lambert was selected seventh by Charlotte. Alabama-Birmingham's Deanna Jackson, who is recovering from a broken lower right leg, was chosen by Cleveland at No. 8. Shaun Gortman of South Carolina went ninth to the Sting, and Houston completed the top 10 by picking Michelle Snow of Tennessee.

The 5-foot-9 Bird is the first guard chosen as the top pick in the WNBA's six-year history. She was a consensus choice as national player of the year and helped UConn go 39-0 and win its third national title.

Bird averaged 14.4 points, shot 46 percent from behind the arc and led the country in free-throw shooting at 89.2 percent.

With the Storm, she'll try to revive a team that lost 15 of its last 18 to finish 10-22 last season. Bird will join forward Lauren Jackson, who was the top pick in the 2001 draft.

"There was never any doubt she was the premier player in the draft," Seattle coach Lin Dunn said. "I call her a blend between (Olympians) Jennifer Azzi and Dawn Staley."

Bird would like to try to turn the franchise around.

"I really, really don't like losing," Bird said. "That probably is going to be a problem. Hopefully, I'll be able to help out so they won't lose that much."