# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lusia-harris
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:05:08.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lusia-harris"
name: "Lusia Harris"
slug: "lusia-harris"
description: "Lusia Mae Harris was an American professional basketball player. Harris is considered to be one of the pioneers of women's basketball. She played for Delta State University and won three consecutive Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) National Championships, the predecessors to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships, from 1975 to 1977. On the international level, she represented the United States' national team. She was on the team which won the gold medal in the 1975 Pan American Games. In addition, she was a member of the team which won the silver medal in the 1976 Olympic Games, the first women's basketball tournament in the Olympic Games. She played professional basketball with the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) and was the first and only woman ever to be officially drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA). For her achievements, Harris was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player (1955–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lusia_Harris_DSU.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: "1955-02-10"
deathDate: "2022-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.911672
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "卢西娅·哈里斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوسيا هاريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوسيا هاريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%87%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "لوسیا هریس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ルシア・ハリス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%ABsija_Herisa"
    title: "Lūsija Herisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
    title: "Lusia Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusia_Harris"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%81%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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