Candace Parker

ABOUT CANDACE PARKER

Star WNBA Forward who made her name with the Los Angeles Sparks; won both the WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in 2008.

She won two NCAA championships during her career at the University of Tennessee .

She was named to her first WNBA All-Star game in 2011, and in 2013 she was named All-Star game MVP. She became the first woman in NCAA tournament history to dunk.

She has one daughter, Lailaa, with NBA center Shelden Williams . She married Anya Petrakova in 2019 and the two are currently expecting their first child together. Her older brother Anthony played in the NBA. Their son Airr was born in February 2022.

She became the second player to dunk in a WNBA game. The first was Lisa Leslie .