# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheri-sam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:36:26.287Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheri-sam"
name: "Sheri Sam"
slug: "sheri-sam"
description: "Sheri Lynette Sam is an American professional women's basketball coach and player who played in the WNBA. She was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana as the youngest of eight siblings, and where she was a standout at Acadiana High School. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1996. She was an assistant coach at Eastern Illinois University."
tagline: "American professional women's 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: "1974-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.72
  momentum:             11.36363636363637
  historical:           6.549461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Сэм, Шери"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "شيري سام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "شيرى سام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_Sam"
    title: "Sheri Sam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D9%85"
    title: "شری لینت سم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_Sam"
    title: "Sheri Sam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_Sam"
    title: "Sheri Sam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3959392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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