Tamika Whitmore

Tamika Whitmore, born on June 5, 1977 in Tupelo, Mississippi, is an American former professional basketball player who played in the WNBA. She played collegiate basketball on scholarship at the University of Memphis, finishing second in career scoring with 2,488 points, first in career field goal percentage at 60.6 percent, fourth in rebounds with 952 and second in blocked shots with 108. She was Conference USA player of the year in 1998 and 1999 and led the NCAA in scoring in her senior year, and Memphis retired her number 44 jersey on March 1, 2025. In 1998 she was named to the US team at the William Jones Cup in Taipei, which won all five games and the gold medal. The New York Liberty selected her in the 1999 WNBA draft.