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Sue Bird

Sue Bird is an American former basketball player who played point guard for the Seattle Storm for her whole WNBA career and won 5 Olympic gold medals with the United States.

born 19804 WNBA titles with Seattle5 Olympic gold medals2 NCAA titles with UConn5 EuroLeague titles

Born: 16 October 1980, Syosset
Occupation: basketball player
Education: Christ the King Regional High School, University of Connecticut, Syosset High School

Sue Bird was born in 1980 in Syosset

Bird was born on October 16, 1980, in Syosset, New York, to Herschel and Nancy Bird. Her father is Jewish, and the family name was changed from Boorda to Bird when her grandparents arrived in the United States. She has held Israeli citizenship since 2006 under the Law of Return.

She played at Syosset High School and then at Christ the King Regional High School in Queens, which won the state and national titles in her senior year. At the University of Connecticut she studied communications and played for the Huskies. The team won NCAA titles in 2000 and 2002, and in 2002 she won the Naismith Award and the Wade Trophy.

The Seattle Storm chose her first in the 2002 WNBA draft, and she won league titles with the team in 2004, 2010, 2018 and 2020. She missed the 2013 season after knee surgery. From 2004 she also played in Russia for Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow Region and UMMC Ekaterinburg, winning 5 EuroLeague titles.

With the United States she won 4 world titles and Olympic gold in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. She carried the flag for the team at the Tokyo opening ceremony. She retired after the 2022 season and was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025.