Sheryl Swoopes From being born in Brownfield, Texas, to being a professional basketball player, Sheryl Swoopes has led a great life. Sheryl Swoopes was a great player from the start. She was born in Brownfield, Texas where she grew up loving the sport basketball. Sheryl's parents got divorced before her first birthday. Therefore she lived with her mother and her three brothers. Sheryl started playing basketball at 7 years old. Sheryl Swoopes was in love with the sport basketball and she would always play with her brothers, but they were too good for Sheryl and she would always be scared to play them. She played basketball at Brownfield High School and later graduated from there. After graduating, Swoopes later joined South Plains College. After studying the college for two years, Swoopes took transfer to Texas Tech in 1991. 1993 was a lucky year for Swoopes as she led her team to victory during NCAA women's basketball. Swoopes was a shooting guard/ small forward. She is still known at Texas Tech because of her numerous records in the time she played on the basketball team of that college. Swoopes was later a professional basketball player at Italy in 1993 and 1994. She …show more content…
She won Junior College Player of the year at South Plains Junior College. Swoopes retired her Texas Tech jersey number twenty-two in 1994. She was also a three time defensive player of the year. Sheryl was a big leader on her team and lead the Houston Comets to four consecutive WNBA Championships. She was an all star game MVP and WNBA all defensive player of the year. Swoopes was on the All WNBA team and was an Associated Press Female Athlete of the year. She was also the best female college basketball player of her 1994 college year. In 2011 Sheryl Swoopes was known as one of the WNBA top fifteen players of all time. In the regular season and playoffs of her WNBA season, she was the first player to record a triple-