# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/latoya-sanders
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:08:57.307Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/latoya-sanders"
name: "LaToya Sanders"
slug: "latoya-sanders"
description: "LaToya Antoinette Sanders, also known as Lara Sanders in Turkey, is an American-Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. She currently serves as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Sanders played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before getting drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2008 WNBA draft. Sanders played for seven seasons in the WNBA with the Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks, and Washington Mystics. In 2019, her final season in the league, she won the championship with the Mystics. Sanders also played overseas in Israel, Turkey, Russia, and Italy. In 2012, she received Turkish citizenship and represented the Turkey women's national basketball team, including an appearance at the 2016 Summer Olympics."
tagline: "Turkish-American basketball player (born 1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LaToya_Sanders_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1986-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.09172266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Латоя Сандерс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "لاتويا ساندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لاتويا ساندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "لاتویا سندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Pringle"
    title: "LaToya Pringle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ラトーヤ・サンダース"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%8F"
    title: "Сандерс, Латойя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81"
    title: "Латоја Сандерс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaToya_Sanders"
    title: "LaToya Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3206275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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