# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ayana-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:15.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ayana-walker"
name: "Ayana Walker"
slug: "ayana-walker"
description: "Ayana D'Nay Walker is an American former women's basketball player. She played for the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team from 1998 to 2002. Walker was a member of gold medal-winning USA Basketball Women's National Team in 2001 and set a USA single-game record with 19 rebounds in gold-medal game. She was also a member of gold medal-winning USA Basketball World University Games Team in 2001. Walker was drafted as the 20th overall pick by the Detroit Shock in the 2002 WNBA draft. As a member of the Shock, she won the 2003 WNBA Championship. On July 3, 2005, Walker signed with the Charlotte Sting. After the Sting franchise folded, Walker was drafted by Los Angeles Sparks as the 12th pick in the dispersal draft on January 8, 2007. She returned to Detroit for her final season in 2007."
tagline: "American basketball player"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1979-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670266666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayana_Walker"
    title: "Ayana Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "أيانا ووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "ايانا ووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Уокер, Аяна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "آیانا واکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayana_Walker"
    title: "Ayana Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3631354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump