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Tamika Catchings

Tamika Catchings was born in the year 1979 and she is American professional basketball player and she played for the WNBA and for Turkish team of Galatasaray. She is known to be a prolific scorer regardless if she is closer or far from the basket.  She is known to be a rebounder, defender and a ball handler. She played for the Adlai E Stevenson High School and she graduated for the University of the Tennessee Women basketball Team.  In the year 2001, she got drafted to join the Indiana Fever and after sitting out for an entire year within the year she was drafted into because of the injury. She had all-star rookie season in the year 2002 and in the year 2011, she became voted in by the fans to be among top 15 in the WNBA history. Catchings is for the ten-time WNBA All-Star and she is for five-time all-WNBA selection and it is for famous to record the five quintuple-double. She was the president for WNBA players associations for the 2012 season.

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From her biography, Catching had been born in the city of Stratford in the state of New Jersey. She was playing for Duncanville High school in Duncanville, Texas where she was called the WBCA all-American. Catching has been all-American with Tennessee Lady Volunteer Basketball since 1997 until 2001. She was never defeated as a freshman and she was a part of the Meeks with Chamique Holdsclaw and Semeka Randall. Catchings was drafted to join Indiana in the year 2001 but she was not able to do so because she was injured.  

Tamika Catchings was born with the hearing disability and she had to wear a hearing aid for some time.   Her father was also a NBA player Harvey Catchings and the sister is called Tauja who also played professionally in WNBA.  She was the celebrity referee for 3 on 3 basketballs that Barack Obama played with the students of Indiana Middle School.   

Tamika Catchings is the best player in the field she has the record to prove it.  Her salary is 10,000 US dollars and this increases the net worth she has of 300 thousands US dollars and it is going to keep increasing. She is the phenomenal in the career and she has the awards and the honors that will prove this.  

She got the honor to be the best Defensive Player of the year for the record of five times and for the WNBA All-Star player records for the nine times. She got Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award two times in the year 2010 in the year 2013.

When it comes to her married life none knows about it and she never revealed anything about it and some people say that she is lesbian but nothing confirmed about her sexual preference. By now, she does not have any husband. However, she supports the people who are in the lesbian or gay relationship.

Tamika Catchings is an American professional basketball player and she played in WNBA. She was born with hearing disability. Her net worth is 300 thousand dollars. None knows anything about her own married life.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 21 Jul, 1979
Age: 40 yrs
Occupations: Basketball player
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Stratford
Education: University of Tennessee
Gender: Female
Description: American basketball player
Twitter Id: Catchin24
Net Worth 2021: 300 thousand
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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