Sheryl Swoopes Siblings: Meet Brandon Swoopes, Earl Swoopes, James Swoopes

Posted by Abbie Anker on Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Sheryl Denise Swoopes was born on March 25, 1971, and is an American former professional basketball player.

She was the first player to be signed in the WNBA, is a three-time WNBA MVP, and was named one of the league’s Top 15 Players of All Time at the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game.

Swoopes has won three Olympic gold medals and is one of eleven women’s basketball players to have won an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA Championship, a Fiba world cup gold, and a WNBA title.

She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.

In 2017, she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Swoopes won the female Associated Press Athlete of the Year award in 1993. The same year, she also won the Honda Sports Award for basketball and the WBCA Player of the Year award.

She was named one of the 20 female athletes of the decade from 2000 to 2010 by Sports Illustrated. She was named an LGBT History Month Icon by the Equality Forum.

Sheryl Swoopes Siblings: Meet Brandon Swoopes, Earl Swoopes, James Swoopes

Sheryl Swoopes’s brothers are Brandon Swoopes, James Swoopes, and Earl Swoopes. Sheryl grew up playing basketball with her siblings.

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