# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vanessa-nygaard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:17.942Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vanessa-nygaard"
name: "Vanessa Nygaard"
slug: "vanessa-nygaard"
description: "Vanessa Nygaard is a professional basketball coach and former player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was the former head coach for the Phoenix Mercury. She currently is Associate Head Coach for UC San Diego."
tagline: "American basketball player-coach"
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: "1975-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             0.4081632653061225
  historical:           5.486862666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nygaard"
    title: "Vanessa Nygaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ڤانيسا نيجارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nygaard"
    title: "Vanessa Nygaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nygaard"
    title: "Vanessa Nygaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ونسا نیگارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nygaard"
    title: "Vanessa Nygaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4008550"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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