Sheryl Swoopes

Sheryl Swoopes is an American former professional basketball player who won three WNBA championships and three WNBA Most Valuable Player awards.

Van Chancellor: An American basketball coach who led the Houston Comets to four consecutive WNBA championships. He coached Swoopes throughout the Comets’ championship run.
1996 WNBA season: The inaugural season of the Women's National Basketball Association. Swoopes joined the Houston Comets as the league began.
Women's National Basketball Association: A professional basketball league for women in the United States, founded in 1996. Swoopes became one of the league’s foundational stars.
New York Liberty: A WNBA team founded in 1997 and based in New York City. The Liberty lost to Swoopes’s Comets in the inaugural WNBA Finals.
Cynthia Cooper: An American basketball player who won four WNBA championships and two WNBA Most Valuable Player awards with the Houston Comets. She formed the Comets’ celebrated core with Swoopes.
Houston Comets: A WNBA team that won four consecutive championships from 1997 through 2000. Swoopes spent most of her WNBA career with this title-winning team.
1996 United States women's Olympic basketball team: The U.S. women's basketball team that won gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Swoopes helped this Olympic team build momentum for the WNBA's launch.
Los Angeles Sparks: A WNBA team founded in 1997 and based in Los Angeles. The Sparks became a prominent Western Conference rival during Swoopes’s Comets years.
Tina Thompson: An American basketball player who played for the Houston Comets and won four WNBA championships. She was Swoopes’s teammate on all four Comets title teams.
1997 WNBA Finals: The championship series in which the Houston Comets defeated the New York Liberty to win the first WNBA title. Swoopes won the first of her three WNBA championships in this series.

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