# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheryl-swoopes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:47:13.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheryl-swoopes"
name: "Sheryl Swoopes"
slug: "sheryl-swoopes"
description: "Sheryl Denise Swoopes is an American former professional basketball player. She was the first player to be signed in the WNBA, is a three-time WNBA MVP, and was named one of the league's Top 15 Players of All Time at the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game. Swoopes has won three Olympic gold medals and is one of eleven women's basketball players to have won an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA Championship, a FIBA World Cup gold, and a WNBA title. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2017, she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.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: "1971-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.55
  momentum:             1.267956989247312
  historical:           22.33823066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/airswoopes22/"
    handle:    "airswoopes22"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/sswoopes22"
    handle:    "sswoopes22"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1663564/"
    handle:    "nm1663564"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sherylswoopes.net"
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    title: "شيريل سووبيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheryl Swoopes"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheryl Swoopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Շերիլ Սվուփս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheryl Swoopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheryl Swoopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheryl Swoopes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Свупс, Шерил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214183"
    title: "Sheryl Swoopes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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