Tamika Catchings

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Born
1979 (46 years old)
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Stratford, New Jersey

Position
Small Forward

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Ethnicity
White

Team Number
24

Height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Weight
167 lb (76 kg)

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Basketball

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Tamika Devonne Catchings (born July 21, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). 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 (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012), four Olympic gold medals (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), and the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award (2002). She is one of only 11 women to attain all four accolades. 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.

Tamika Catchings is a prolific scorer close to and far from the basket, as well as a capable rebounder, ball handler, and defender. After playing at Adlai E. Stevenson High School and graduating from Duncanville High School, Tamika Catchings became one of the stars of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team. In 2001, she was drafted by the Indiana Fever. After sitting out the entire year in which she was drafted due to injury, she had an all-star rookie season in 2002. She is famous for recording the first ever quintuple-double (25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks) in 1997 and served as President of the WNBA Players Association from 2012 to 2016. Catchings was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.

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WNBA 25th Anniversary… 2021	Basketball Hall of Fame 2020	WNBA 20th Anniversary… 2016	Basketball Olympics Gold… 2016
WNBA steals leader 2016	WNBA All Star 2015	WNBA All Star 2014	WNBA steals leader 2013
WNBA All Star 2013	Basketball Olympics Gold… 2012	All-WNBA First Team 2012	WNBA Defensive Player of… 2012
WNBA Finals MVP 2012	WNBA 2012	WNBA All Star 2011	WNBA Most Improved Player 2011
All-WNBA First Team 2011	WNBA 15th Anniversary… 2011	All-WNBA First Team 2010	FIBA Womens World Cup 2010
WNBA Defensive Player of… 2010	WNBA steals leader 2010	All-WNBA First Team 2009	WNBA All Star 2009
WNBA Defensive Player of… 2009	WNBA steals leader 2009	Basketball Olympics Gold… 2008	WNBA All Star 2007
WNBA steals leader 2007	All-WNBA First Team 2006	WNBA 10th Anniversary… 2006	WNBA All Star 2006
WNBA Defensive Player of… 2006	WNBA steals leader 2006	WNBA All Star 2005	WNBA Defensive Player of… 2005
WNBA steals leader 2005	Basketball Olympics Gold… 2004	All-WNBA First Team 2003	WNBA All Star 2003
All-WNBA First Team 2002	FIBA Womens World Cup 2002	WNBA All Star 2002	WNBA Rookie of the Year 2002
WNBA steals leader 2002