# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lindsay-whalen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:06:39.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lindsay-whalen"
name: "Lindsay Whalen"
slug: "lindsay-whalen"
description: "Lindsay Marie Whalen is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Whalen played college basketball at the University of Minnesota, and led the team to its only NCAA tournament Final Four appearance in 2004. Selected fourth overall in the 2004 WNBA draft by the Connecticut Sun, Whalen played for 15 seasons in the WNBA with the Sun and the Lynx, and is considered one of the better point guards in WNBA history."
tagline: "American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach"
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gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1982-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.777047744196233
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "lindsay_13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump