What is Tamika Catchings?
[[File:Tamika Catchings.jpg|thumb|378x378px|Catchings in 2011]] '''Tamika Devonne Catchings''' (born July 21, 1979) is an American retired [[basketball]] player. She played for the [[Indiana Fever]] in the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA) for 15 years. She has won four [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medals for women's basketball. She won them in 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. She won a WNBA Championship with the Fever in 2012, and was the WNBA [[Most Valuable Player]] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-05-11|title=Tamika Catchings Is Taking Her ‘Superpower’ to the Hall of Fame (Published 2021)|language=en|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/sports/basketball/tamika-catchings-hall-of-fame.html|access-date=2023-08-04}}</ref> She was put in the [[Women's Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 2021. Catchings played basketball at the [[University of Tennessee]] from 1997 to 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Women's Basketball Finest|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/misc/wbbfinest.pdf|access-date=October 2, 2017|website=fs.ncaa.org}}</ref> She won the [[Naismith College Player of the Year]] award at Tennessee. She joined the Indiana Fever in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=AllStar 2011|url=http://www.wnba.com/allstar/2011/top15_072311.html|access-date=March 2, 2017|website=WNBA.com}}</ref> In 2016, she stopped playing basketball in the WNBA. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Catchings, Tamika}} [[Category:1979 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:African-American basketball players]] [[Category:Women's basketball players]] {{Bio-stub}}