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WOMEN of the WNBA We Are Professionals Who Play with Passion, the Best in the World at What We Do WOMEN OF THE WNBA We are professionals who play with passion, the best in the world at what we do. We are the children of Title IX. We are Team USA and Olympians of many nations playing for America’s home towns. We are hip-hop and country, lesbian and straight. We are entrepreneurs and cancer survivors, single mothers and soldiers’ wives. We are fashion designers and philanthropists. WHO WE ARE We are colorful characters of every color, and living proof that grace and guts come in every shape and size. We are here to show the world what is possible— what women can be as athletes and what athletes can be as citizens. We are 132 women with 132 stories, united by our relentless drive to win. DAD’S DRIVEWAY SEIMONE AUGUSTUS SEEKING THE HIGHEST LEVEL SUE BIRD WHAT DISABILITY? TAMIKA CATCHINGS “ASTOUNDING WOMAN” SWIN CASH THE COMMITMENT TINA CHARLES SKINNY KID SYLVIA FOWLES WHAT HEART LOOKS LIKE BECKY HAMMON WARRIOR LAUREN JACKSON DID YOU SEE THAT? ANGEL MCCOUGHTRY GREAT EXPECTATIONS MAYA MOORE NINE MONTHS CANDACE PARKER MAKING A STATEMENT CAPPIE PONDEXTER THE FORCE DIANA TAURASI COMING HOME LINDSAY WHALEN SEIMONEAUGUSTUS She was a tomboy growing up, and you still see some of that in the way she needles people she likes, and in her game: herky-jerky moves with a smooth-as-silk shot. Seimone and her dad used to restore old Chevy Impalas in the driveway, and that’s where he taught her basketball. We set They’d drill into the night, sometimes using a bowling ball to strengthen such a her shot. In the WNBA, her shooting percentage is one of the highest in the league. Now her dad has MS, and she lends him the strength that high he once poured into her. standard ‘Mone has played from Moscow to Minneapolis, but Baton Rouge is for our- home. She was born there, raised there, and starred at LSU, where she selves. was the first female athlete to have her jersey retired. In her first years as a pro, only the true basketball junkies knew how good she was. Knee surgery knocked her out in 2009. The next year it was fibroid tumors. In 2011, Augustus came back farther than she’d fallen. Leaner, stronger and more focused, she got better with every game, delivering a transcendent performance in the championship series. When she was named the most valuable player, basketball insiders—and her father— just nodded their heads. They’d known she was that good all along. 2011 WNBA Finals MVP. Gold medalist. First female athlete at Louisiana State University to have jersey retired. Has a love affair with 1960s Chevy Impalas. Honor student. NAACP Community Service Award winner. SUEBIRD When Sue Bird played high school basketball in suburban Syosset, New York, she ran out of competition and moved into New York City to test herself against the best. She’s been playing at the highest level ever since. Because a point guard’s role is to orchestrate the offense, Bird’s There’s success is team success. She is one of only seven women who have nothing won an NCAA championship, a gold medal, and a WNBA championship. All of which she’s done twice. better Bird is what coaches call a money shooter. For most of the game she than looks to pass off to others, but watch who gets the ball for the Seattle winning. Storm or Team USA when the game is in the balance. Fans see her as the definitive point guard and she's been elected to every WNBA All-Star team since she's been in the league. She may be the most seasoned professional in a global game. Bird holds dual US-Israeli citizenship and in the WNBA’s off-season she plays for Spartak in Moscow, where she’s won the EuroLeague women’s championship. Naturally. Two-time WNBA champion. Seven-time WNBA All-Star. Second all- time assist leader. College Player of the Year. Two-time NCAA champion. ESPY winner. Gave her first autograph at age 11. SWINCASH She will tell you that she came from humble beginnings, and leave it at that. The beginning was a public housing project in McKeesport, PA, on the ragged edge of Pittsburgh. Her mother was a teenager who named her beautiful baby Swintayla—“Astounding Woman”—in hopes that a I would glorious name would come true. not play It has. Swin Cash found sports at the Boys and Girls Club, and poise in if I high school drama class. In college, she lived her mom’s dream: a star at Connecticut, then championships with two teams in the WNBA. She’s wasn’t given her fans nearly 12,000 minutes of All-Star caliber play and covered trying sports as an analyst for ESPN and NBC. to win. Her Cash for Kids foundation has helped children all over the US grow up fitter and aim higher. Her urban redevelopment company turns tear- downs in towns like McKeesport into homes that people from humble beginnings can afford. Swin Cash is a gold medalist, but there’s another honor that she treasures. It’s an honorary doctorate from Washington and Jefferson College—in Public Service. Three-time WNBA champion. Four-time WNBA All-Star. Gold medalist.. WNBA Community Assist Award winner. Girl Scout. Former president of McKeesport (PA) High School Student Council. TAMIKACATCHINGS People who follow women’s professional basketball will tell you Tamika Catchings is the greatest defensive player ever. Fathers bring their kids —girls and boys—to see her because her intensity on the floor is a living lesson in how to compete. I make People who know her personally will tell you she’s one of the WNBA’s sure great souls. Tamika’s hearing began to fail when she was in school. The they are hearing aids made her a target for teasing. She was funny looking and funny sounding. It got so bad she threw the damn things away. She took going to out her anger—and found sanctuary—on the basketball court. She was remember still different, but she was good at something. Very, very good. number Years later, Pat Summitt, the great Tennessee coach, told her to wear 24. her hearing aids proudly. Now Catchings is supporting her mentor’s fight against early-onset dementia—and passing mentorship along. Her Catch the Stars foundation organizes programs that motivate kids from all walks of life to dream bigger and achieve more. Just like she did. Basketball is in Catchings’ DNA. She’s the daughter of an NBA player, and now a bigger star. In 2011 she was voted the WNBA Most Valuable Player. People who know her cried when they heard the news. 2011 WNBA MVP. Seven-time WNBA All-Star. All-time WNBA steals leader. Two-time gold medalist. Finalist for the United Nations NGO Positive Peace Award. President of the WNBA Players Association. Poet. TINACHARLES Tina Charles could always be better. That’s a scary thought for the players who face her under the basket, and for years it was a challenge for the lady herself. When you’re better than just about anyone else, how do you find out how good you can be? …and There were astonishing performances in college that still left room this is for improvement. A moment’s inattention, a missed opportunity: tiny only the lapses that only she and Coach Auriemma could see. Fans saw the greatest scorer and greatest rebounder in UConn history. Charles saw beginning! work in progress. She has made herself one of the most consistent performers in the game, and made it look easy. It isn’t. She is reserved, even in the locker room, and shy about the honors she has received. But watch her give a clinic to a bunch of kids. She is incandescent. Kids are all about potential. They don’t know what they can be. Tina Charles does. She knows what it is to commit utterly to becoming the best that you can be, and that it’s the journey of a lifetime. WNBA All-Star. Season record-holder for double-doubles. Owns the record for rebounds in one season. WNBA Rookie of the Year. UConn's all-time leading scorer and rebounder. Psychology major. Back-to-back NCAA champion. College Player of the Year. SYLVIAFOWLES To see her now it’s hard to imagine the skinny little kid running around the Victory Homes on Miami’s tough 74th Street. Running was in her genes. Her mother was a track star before leaving to find work and raise her family. Sylvia aimed to run like mom. When she began to When I grow and didn’t stop, it was her brothers who said Syl, you have to found pick up a basketball. basket- The brothers shooed away potential boyfriends and got her lifting weights so she’d have the strength to go with her size. Fowles stands ball, I six feet, six inches, and weighs 200 pounds, cabled with muscle. She is felt at the first, some say, of a new kind of WNBA player—an evolutionary leap home. to a league of superwomen. Fowles is an intimidating defender. She is no fun to play against, but a lot of fun to be around, especially if you're a kid. She scrunches down and charms them silly because she’s afraid of scaring them. Like many successful women, she extends a ladder down for others. In Miami, she sponsors Team Fowles, a program that teaches life skills as well as basketball.
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