# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tamika-catchings
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:50:22.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tamika-catchings"
name: "Tamika Catchings"
slug: "tamika-catchings"
description: "Tamika Devonne Catchings is an American former professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Widely considered as one of the greatest female basketball players and one of the most decorated players in WNBA history, Catchings has won a WNBA championship (2012), WNBA Most Valuable Player Award (2011), WNBA Finals MVP Award (2012), five WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Awards, four Olympic gold medals, the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2002), and an NCAA championship with the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (1998). She is one of only 11 women to receive an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA Championship, a FIBA World Cup gold and a WNBA Championship. She has also been selected to ten WNBA All-Star teams, 12 All-WNBA teams, 12 All-Defensive teams and led the league in steals eight times. In 2011, Catchings was voted in by fans as one of the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time, and would be named to two more all-time WNBA teams, the WNBA Top 20@20 in 2016 and The W25 in 2021."
tagline: "American Hall of Fame basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tamika_Catchings.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1979-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.186375028480292
  historical:           21.15003333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 239
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/Catchin24"
    handle:    "Catchin24"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/catchin24/"
    handle:    "catchin24"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
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    handle:    "tamika-catchings-15498920"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.catchings.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump