# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saniya-rivers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:21:17.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saniya-rivers"
name: "Saniya Rivers"
slug: "saniya-rivers"
description: "Saniya Rivers is an American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Hive of Unrivaled. She played college basketball for NC State and South Carolina. Rivers was selected eighth overall by the Sun in the 2025 WNBA draft."
tagline: "Basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saniya_Rivers_2025_(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: "2003-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.28
  momentum:             14.48899874208285
  historical:           4.96956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saniya_Rivers"
    title: "Saniya Rivers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saniya_Rivers"
    title: "Saniya Rivers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saniya_Rivers"
    title: "Saniya Rivers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F"
    title: "Риверс, Санайя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saniya_Rivers"
    title: "Saniya Rivers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119546390"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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