# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanisha-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:44.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanisha-wright"
name: "Tanisha Wright"
slug: "tanisha-wright"
description: "Tanisha Lovely Wright is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions. She played college basketball at Penn State. During her junior season, Wright helped led her team to the Elite Eight, where they fell to the eventual national champion, Connecticut. She ranks fourth in school history in points scored with 1,995 points in 134 career games. She was selected 12th overall in the 2005 WNBA draft by the Seattle Storm. Wright played in the WNBA for 14 seasons with the Storm, New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tanisha_Wright.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: "1983-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.437125748502994
  historical:           9.82862
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Райт, Таниша"
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    title: "تنيشا رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تانيشا رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tanisha Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha_Wright"
    title: "Tanisha Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha_Wright"
    title: "Tanisha Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تانیشا رایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha_Wright"
    title: "Tanisha Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha_Wright"
    title: "Tanisha Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tanisha Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha_Wright"
    title: "Tanisha Wright"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276311"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump