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Sheryl Swoopes
How’s this for a trailblazer: Swoopes was the first player signed to the fledgling WNBA, back in 1997. During her 14-year professional career she received three league MVP awards, won three Olympic gold medals, and even had a shoe named after her—the Air Swoopes. She also became involved with a woman romantically and, in 2005, made their relationship public. Swoopes explained that she wanted to someday marry partner Alisa Scott.
“It doesn’t change who I am,” she told ESPN Magazine. “I can’t help who I fall in love with. No one can…Being intimate with [Alisa] or any other woman never entered my mind. At the same time, I’m a firm believer that when you fall in love with somebody, you can’t control that.”
Swoopes and Scott haven since split and, in 2011, the former baller became engaged to Chris Unclesho. She is currently head coach for the Loyola University women’s basketball team, the Ramblers.
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