Sheryl Swoopes

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Sheryl Swoopes
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Swoopes at the 2014 World Basketball Festival
Personal information
Born (1971-03-25) March 25, 1971 (age 53)
Brownfield, Texas, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight145 lb (66 kg)
Career information
High school Brownfield (Brownfield, Texas)
College
WNBA draft 1997: Allocated
Selected by the Houston Comets
Playing career1997–2011
Position Shooting guard / small forward
Number22
Coaching career2009–present
Career history
As player:
1997–2007 Houston Comets
2008 Seattle Storm
2011 Tulsa Shock
As coach:
2009–2010 Mercer Island HS (assistant)
2013–2016 Loyola–Chicago
2017–2018Texas Tech (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
Career WNBA statistics
Points 4,875 (15.0 ppg)
Rebounds 1,596 (4.9 rpg)
Assists 1,037 (3.2 apg)
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Basketball Hall of Fame
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Medals
Women's basketball
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Atlanta Team competition
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2000 Sydney Team competition
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens Team competition
World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Germany Team competition
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 China Team competition
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Australia Team competition
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Brazil Team competition
Goodwill Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 St. Petersburg Team competition

Sheryl Denise Swoopes (born March 25, 1971) [1] is an American former professional basketball player. She was the first player to be signed in the WNBA, [2] is a three-time WNBA MVP, and was named one of the league's Top 15 Players of All Time at the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game. Swoopes has won three Olympic gold medals and is one of eleven women's basketball players to have won an Olympic gold medal, [3] an NCAA Championship, a FIBA World Cup gold, and a WNBA title. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. [4] In 2017, she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. [5]

Contents

Early life

Born in Brownfield, Texas, Swoopes was raised by her mother, Louise Swoopes, and played basketball with her three older brothers. [6] She began competing at age seven in a local children's league called Little Dribblers. [7] She played basketball at Brownfield High School. [8]

College career

Initially recruited by the University of Texas, Swoopes left the school shortly after her arrival without playing a game and enrolled at South Plains College. After playing at South Plains for two years, Swoopes transferred to Texas Tech, [6] [9] near her hometown.

In 1993, Swoopes won the NCAA women's basketball championship with the Texas Tech Lady Raiders during her senior season. [10] Her jersey was retired by the school the following year, making her one of only three Lady Raiders to be honored in this way. The others are Carolyn Thompson and Krista Kirkland, Swoopes' teammate from the 1993 championship team. [11]

As of 2010, Swoopes was still a part of the women's basketball record books in many categories, including single-game scoring record (53 points on March 13, 1993, vs. Texas, tied for tenth place), single-season scoring (955 points in the 1993 season, fourth place), highest championship tournament scoring average (35.4 in the 1993 tournament, second place), best single-game championship scoring performance (47 points vs. Ohio State, [12] 1993 championship), which broke Bill Walton's record, [6] and scoring record for championship series (177 points, five games). She set the record for the most field goals in the championship game with 16. [13]

Swoopes also set several school records at Texas Tech. She scored 955 in the 1992–93 season, which is an all-time scoring record for a single season (as of 2006). Swoopes' 24.9 points-per-game average for her career is the best in school history; she also boasts three triple-doubles and 23 double-doubles, 14 of which came during her senior year. [14]

Swoopes was the 1993 winner of the Naismith College Player of the Year award at the age of 22, the Honda Sports Award, [15] was selected as that year's WBCA Player of the Year, and was chosen to the Division I All-American squad in both 1992 and 1993. Swoopes was named the 1993 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation. [16]

Texas Tech statistics

Source [17]

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage 3P%  3-point field goal percentage FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high
YearTeamGPPointsFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1992Texas Tech3269050.3%41.0%80.8%8.94.83.41.021.6
1993Texas Tech3495554.6%41.0%86.8%9.24.13.41.028.1
Career66164552.7%41.0%84.4%9.04.43.41.024.9

USA Basketball

Swoopes was named to the USA national team and competed in the 1994 World Championships, held in June 1994 in Sydney, Australia. [10] The team was coached by Tara VanDerveer, and won their first six games, when they faced Brazil. In a closely contested, high-scoring game, Brazil hit 10 of 10 free throws in the final minute to secure a 110–107 victory. The USA won a close final game against Australia 100–95 to earn the bronze medal. Swoopes averaged 9.1 points per game, while recording seven steals, second highest on the team. [18]

Swoopes was selected to represent the US at the 1995 USA Women's Pan American Games, but only four teams committed to participate, so the event was cancelled. [19]

Swoopes continued as a member of the USA team at the 1996 Olympics, held in Atlanta, Georgia. The USA team won all their pool play games by large margins, although they were behind Cuba by as many as seven points before Lisa Leslie's 24 points helped the USA take over the game. [20]

In 2002, Swoopes was named to the national team which competed in the World Championships in Zhangjiagang, Changzhou, and Nanjing, China. The team was coached by Van Chancellor. Swoopes scored 16.9 points per game, second highest on the team and recorded a team-high 24 steals. The USA team won all nine games, including a close title game against Russia, which had a one-point difference late in the game. [21]

Swoopes was named to the National Team representing the US at the 2006 World Championships, held in Barueri and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The team won eight of their nine contests, but the lone loss came in the semifinal medal round to Russia. The USA beat Brazil in the final game to earn the bronze medal. Swoopes, hampered by injuries, averaged 3.0 points per game and was second on the team with six blocks. [22]

WNBA career

Swoopes for the Seattle Storm in 2008 Sheryl Swoopes WNBA.jpg
Swoopes for the Seattle Storm in 2008

Swoopes was recruited for the Houston Comets of the WNBA during the 1997 inaugural season. Due to the birth of her son, Swoopes had a late-season debut for her career, playing her first game on August 7, 1997 (6 weeks after the season started). In her debut game, the Comets defeated the Phoenix Mercury 74 - 70 with Swoopes playing for 5 minutes and recording no stats. [23]

As a 11 year member of the Houston Comets, she accumulated over 2,000 career points, 500 career rebounds, 300 career assists, and 200 career steals. Her extraordinary scoring and defensive ability made her the first three-time WNBA MVP (2000, 2002, and 2005) and the first three-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year (2000, 2002, and 2003). Swoopes is also a four-time WNBA champion as the Comets won the first 4 championships in WNBA history from 1997 to 2000. [24]

Swoopes is the second player in WNBA history to win both the regular season MVP award and the All-Star Game MVP award in the same season. The first player to accomplish this was Lisa Leslie. Swoopes is also the first player in WNBA history to record a triple-double in both the regular season and the playoffs.

Swoopes gained national prominence when she won the gold medal with the USA Basketball Women's National Team at the 1996 Olympic Games and became a focal point of the fledgling WNBA. The 1996 Olympic win over Brazil (117–87) is considered by some to be the "best woman's basketball game they'd ever seen." [25] She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist (1996, 2000, and 2004). [3]

Swoopes is the first women's basketball player to have a Nike shoe named after her: the "Air Swoopes". [6]

On March 3, 2008, Swoopes signed with the Seattle Storm, ending her 11-year career with the Houston Comets. She was waived by the Storm on February 3, 2009. [26]

Two days after her 40th birthday in 2011, sources for the Associated Press claimed that Swoopes was preparing to return to the WNBA in anticipation of an official signing announcement from the Tulsa Shock. [27] [28] At the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game, she was announced as one of the top 15 players in the 15-year history of the WNBA. [29]

On August 26, 2011, the 40-year-old Swoopes hit a buzzer-beating shot to edge the Los Angeles Sparks 77–75 and end the Shock's WNBA-record 20-game losing streak. [30]

Swoopes became an unrestricted free agent after the 2011 season: Tulsa Shock owner Steve Swetoha announced on 15 February 2012 that the team did not intend to offer Swoopes a new contract. [31] As of the beginning of the 2012 preseason on 5 May, Swoopes remained an unsigned free agent. While no official announcement has been made, when Swoopes began blogging at the Shape magazine website during the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, she identified herself as "a former professional basketball player." [32]

Swoopes' final WNBA game was played on September 11, 2011, a 94–102 loss to the San Antonio Silver Stars, where she recorded 20 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists. [33]

In 2016, she was voted into the WNBA Top 20@20, in celebration of the league's 20th anniversary.

International career

Europe

Post-playing career

In 2008, Sheryl Swoopes made an appearance on Shirts & Skins , a reality series on Logo TV. Swoopes mentored the San Francisco Rockdogs, a gay basketball team, and shared her experiences on basketball, family, faith, and coming out. [35]

In 2010, Swoopes was an assistant basketball coach at Mercer Island High School in Washington. [36] She was a color analyst for the Texas Tech women's basketball broadcast during the 2012–2013 season. [37]

In 2013, Swoopes became head coach of the Loyola University Chicago women's basketball team. In April 2016, Loyola announced that it was investigating Swoopes for alleged mistreatment, after the school newspaper reported that 10 of the team's players had either transferred or wanted a release from their scholarships. [36] [38] On July 4, 2016, Loyola announced it had fired Swoopes as a result of the investigation but declined to say what it had found. [39]

In July 2017, Swoopes returned to her alma mater, Texas Tech, hired as the women's basketball program's Director of Player Development, where her job included resuming work as broadcast color analysis for Lady Raiders games. [40] Following the firing of head coach Candi Whitaker on January 1, 2018, Swoopes was promoted to regular assistant coach under interim head coach Shimmy Gray-Miller. [41] [42]

Personal life

Swoopes was married from June 1995 to 1999 to her high school sweetheart, with whom she has one son, Jordan Eric Jackson (b. 1997).

In October 2005, Swoopes announced she was gay, becoming one of the highest-profile athletes in a team sport to do so publicly. [43] Swoopes said, "it doesn't change who I am. I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can. ... Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life. Being intimate with [Alisa] or any other woman never entered my mind. At the same time, I'm a firm believer that when you fall in love with somebody, you can't control that." [44] She and her partner, former basketball player and Houston Comets assistant coach Alisa Scott, together raised Swoopes' son. [45] The couple broke up in 2011. Later that year, Swoopes got engaged to Chris Unclesho, a longtime male friend; the couple wed after a long engagement on July 21, 2017. [46]

Awards and honors

Swoopes won the female Associated Press Athlete of the Year award in 1993. [47] The same year, she also won the Honda Sports Award for basketball and the WBCA Player of the Year award. [48] She was named one of the 20 female athletes of the decade for 2000 to 2010 by Sports Illustrated . She was named an LGBT History Month Icon by the Equality Forum. [49]

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game FG%  Field-goal percentage 3P%  3-point field-goal percentage FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold Career best°League leader
†Denotes seasons in which Swoopes won a WNBA championship

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
1997 † Houston 9014.3.472.250.7141.70.80.80.40.447.1
1998 † Houston 292932.3.427.360.8265.12.12.50.52.0015.6
1999 † Houston 323234.4.462.337.8206.34.02.41.42.5918.3
2000 † Houston 313135.2.506.374.8216.33.82.8°1.12.6520.7°
2002 Houston 323236.1.434.288.8254.93.32.80.72.7218.5
2003 Houston 313035.0.406.304.8874.63.92.5°0.82.3515.6
2004 Houston 313134.5.422.308.8564.92.91.50.51.9014.8
2005 Houston 333337.1°.447.360.8503.64.32.00.82.1818.6°
2006 Houston 313135.8°.413.278.7645.93.72.10.32.3915.5
2007 Houston 3335.3.360.1431.0005.73.71.70.33.007.7
2008 Seattle 292524.3.391.222.6954.32.11.50.31.077.1
2011 Tulsa 332829.9.398.319.8704.12.30.80.31.368.2
Career12 years, 3 teams32420532.7.436.316.8254.93.22.00.72.0915.0

Postseason

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
1997 † Houston 207.0.000.000.0001.50.00.00.50.000.0
1998 † Houston 5537.6.443.278.93310.05.21.81.43.2014.6
1999 † Houston 6636.0.358.308.9293.71.22.30.52.0014.7
2000 † Houston 6636.7.471.471.7935.73.22.80.02.0018.8
2002 Houston 3342.3°.397.333.8007.35.74.00.72.6724.3
2003 Houston 3336.7.435.100.9386.34.31.30.71.6718.7
2005 Houston 5537.8.402.357.8105.63.81.40.43.0018.4
2006 Houston 2231.0.389.167.8752.51.51.01.01.0011.0
2008 Seattle 3224.0.320.200.8893.31.02.00.01.678.7
Career9 years, 2 teams353234.3.406.293.8615.53.12.00.52.1415.5

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Loyola Ramblers (Missouri Valley Conference)(2013–2016)
2013–14 Loyola (Chicago) 11–216–128th
2014–15 Loyola (Chicago) 6–253–159th
2015–16 Loyola (Chicago) 14–1610–85th
Loyola (Chicago):31–6219–35
Total:31–62

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