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Sheryl Swoopes was born on March 25th, 1971, in Brownfield, Texas.

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Sheryl Swoopes was the first female professional basketball player to be signed
in the WNBA when it was created. She played for the Houston Comets, Seattle Storm, and Tusla Shock, a team founded in Detroit, Michigan, before the 1998 season started. They then became the Tusla Shock because it was based in Tusla, Oklahoma.

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Swoopes was recruited for the Houston Comets of the WNBA during the 1997 inaugural season. She returned only six weeks after giving birth to her son to play the last third of the WNBA inaugural season and lead the Comets in the 1997 WNBA Championship. As a member of the Houston Comets, she has accumulated over 2,000 career points, 500 career rebounds, 300 career assists and 200 career steals. Her extraordinary scoring and defensive ability have made her the first three-time WNBA MVP (2000, 2002, 2005) and the first three-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year (2000, 2002, 2003). Swoopes is a four-time WNBA champion.

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On March 3, 2008, Swoopes signed with the Seattle Storm ending her eleven-year career with the Houston Comets. She was waived by the Storm on February 3, 2009.

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Swoopes is the second player in WNBA history to win both the regular season MVP award and the All-Star Game MVP award in the same season. The first player to accomplish this was Lisa Leslie. Swoopes is also the first player in WNBA history to record a playoff triple-double. Swoopes gained national prominence when she won the gold medal with the USA Basketball Women's National Team (WNT) at the 1996 Olympic Games and became a focal point of the fledgling WNBA. The 1996 Olympic win over Brazil (117–87) is considered by some to be the "best woman's basketball game they'd ever seen."[11] She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist (1996, 2000, 2004). Sheryl Swoopes has one 3 Olympic Gold Medals and 2 World Championship Gold Medals. She is a three-time WNBA MVP. In 2005, she averaged 18.6 points, 85% free throws, 4.3 assists, 2.65 steals and 37.1 minutes playing time per game

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Swoopes is the first women's basketball player to have a Nike shoe named after her: the "Air Swoopes".

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Two days after her 40th birthday, sources for the Associated Press claimed that Swoopes was preparing to return to the WNBA in anticipation of an official signing announcement from the Tulsa Shock that was made on 28 March 2011. At the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game, she was announced as one of the Top 15 players in the fifteen-year history of the WNBA.

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On August 26, 2011, Swoopes hit a buzzer-beating shot to edge the Los Angeles Sparks 77-75 and end the Shock's WNBA-record 20-game losing streak.

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Swoopes became an unrestricted free agent after the 2011 season; Tulsa Shock owner Steve Swetoha announced on 15 February 2012 that the team did not intend to offer Swoopes a new contract. As of the beginning of the 2012 preseason on 5 May, Swoopes remains an unsigned free agent. While there has been no official announcement, when Swoopes began blogging at the Shape magazine website during the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, she identified herself as "a former professional basketball player."

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From 1995 to1999 Swoopes was married to her high school sweet heart,
Jordan Eric Jackson.

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In October of 2005, Swoopes announced that she was gay. Swoopes then became one of the highest profile athletes to
do so publicly.

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She and her partner, former basketball player and Houston Comets assistant coach, Alisa Scott, whom Swoopes at the time said she would like to someday marry, together raised Swoopes's son, Jordan.

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In 2008, Sheryl Swoopes made an appearance on Shirts & Skins, a reality show on the channel LOGO. Swoopes flew out to mentor the San Francisco Rockdogs, a gay basketball team, and shared her experiences on basketball, family, faith, and coming out, helping to bring the team closer together.

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In 2011, Swoopes broke up with Alisa Scott and was reportedly engaged to Christopher Unclesho.

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Swoopes was listed in Sports Illustrated
20 female athletes of the decade Between 2000 and 2010.

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College Years.

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Initially recruited by the University of Texas, Swoopes left the school shortly after her arrival without playing a game, and enrolled at South Plains College. After playing at South Plains for two years, Swoopes transferred to Texas Tech.

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In 1993 Swoopes won the NCAA women's basketball championship with the Texas Tech Lady Raiders during her senior season. Her jersey was retired by the school the following year, making her one of only three Lady Raiders to be honored in this way. The others are Carolyn Thompson and Krista Kirkland, Swoopes' teammate from the 1993 championship team.

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As of 2010, Swoopes was still a part of the NCAA women's basketball record books in many categories, including single-game scoring record (53 points on March 13, 1993 vs. Texas, tied for tenth place), single-season scoring (955 points in the 1993 season, fourth place), highest Championship Tournament scoring average (35.4 in the 1993 tournament, second place), best single-game championship scoring performance (47 points vs. Ohio State,1993 championship), which broke Bill Walton's record, and scoring record for championship series points, five games). She set the record for the most field goals in the Championship game with sixteen.

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Swoopes also set several school records at Texas Tech. She scored 955 points in the 1992-93 season, which is an all-time scoring record for a single season (as of 2006). Swoopes' 24.9 points-per-game average for her career is the best in school history; she also boasts three triple-doubles and twenty-three double-doubles, fourteen of which came during her senior year.

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