Sue Bird

Sue Bird, born Suzanne Brigit Bird on 16 October 1980 in Syosset, New York, is an American former professional basketball player who spent twenty years in the United States and Russia. The Seattle Storm drafted her first overall in the 2002 WNBA draft and she played her whole WNBA career with the team, winning a joint-record four WNBA championships, while in Russia she played for Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow Region and UMMC Ekaterinburg. At the University of Connecticut her teams went 114 and 4, and she won the Wade Trophy and the Naismith Award as a senior. She is one of two basketball players of any gender with five Olympic gold medals, and she also won four FIBA World Cups. She was a thirteen-time WNBA All-Star, belongs to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame, and retired after the 2022 season.