Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles was born on October 6,1985 and is an American former professional basketball player.
53 Facts About Sylvia Fowles
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Sylvia Fowles won the WNBA MVP Award in 2017 and the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year award four times.
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Sylvia Fowles led the Lynx to win the WNBA Championship in 2015 and 2017, and she was named the MVP of the WNBA Finals both times.
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In 2020, Sylvia Fowles overtook Rebekkah Brunson to become the reigning WNBA career rebound leader.
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Sylvia Fowles was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Arrittio Sylvia Fowles.
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Sylvia Fowles has three brothers, Walter, Jeremy, Morris, and one sister, Dorothy.
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Sylvia Fowles grew up in some of the rougher neighborhoods of Miami-Dade, including Coconut Grove, Little Haiti, and the Victory Home Housing Projects.
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Sylvia Fowles attended Little River Elementary School, Horace Mann Middle School, Miami Edison Senior and graduated from Gulliver Preparatory School.
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Sylvia Fowles led Edison Senior High School to two state championships before transferring to Gulliver Preparatory School.
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Sylvia Fowles averaged 20.6 points and 11.6 rebounds at Gulliver and led them to the class 3A state championship against Melbourne Central Catholic High School.
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Sylvia Fowles participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored fifteen points, and earned MVP honors.
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Sylvia Fowles played in all 36 of LSU's games as a freshman, helping the team to an appearance in the NCAA Final Four.
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Sylvia Fowles was named to the pre-season All-American team prior to her senior season.
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Sylvia Fowles dunked the ball in the Lady Tigers' game against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on November 21,2007, becoming the sixth woman to dunk in an American college game.
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In December 2007, Sylvia Fowles suffered a partial tear of the meniscus of her right knee during a game against the University of Miami.
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Sylvia Fowles then underwent surgery and missed several weeks of play.
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Sylvia Fowles led LSU to the Final Four again in her senior year.
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Sylvia Fowles finished additional academic credits after beginning her professional basketball career and received her bachelor's degree from LSU in the spring of 2009.
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Sylvia Fowles is the second women's basketball player in school history to receive that honor.
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Sylvia Fowles was selected 2nd overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2008 WNBA Draft.
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Sylvia Fowles averaged 11.3 points per game, 7.8 rebounds per game and 1.5 blocks per game.
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Sylvia Fowles dunked on her second attempt during the 2009 WNBA All-Star Game while representing the Eastern Conference after everyone on both teams cleared out of her way.
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Sylvia Fowles is the third WNBA player to dunk in an all star game, following Michelle Snow in 2006 and Lisa Leslie in 2005.
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Sylvia Fowles had led the league in blocks with a career-high average of 2.6 blocks per game.
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Sylvia Fowles had averaged a double-double in points and rebounds for the whole season with a career-high 20 points per game and 10.2 rebounds per game, she led the league in blocks for the second year in the row, averaging 2.0 blocks per game.
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In 2012, Sylvia Fowles re-signed with the Sky to a multi-year deal once her rookie contract expired.
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Sylvia Fowles turned down a contract extension offer with the Sky in September 2014.
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Sylvia Fowles requested a trade but no trade offers from other teams for her had been sufficient.
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Sylvia Fowles sat out the first half of the 2015 WNBA season until she was traded to the Minnesota Lynx on July 27,2015 as part of a three-team deal that sent Erika de Souza to the Sky and Damiris Dantas and Reshanda Gray to the Atlanta Dream.
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Sylvia Fowles was named the WNBA Finals MVP as the Lynx won their third WNBA Championship in five years.
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Sylvia Fowles was voted into the 2017 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her fourth career all-star appearance.
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Sylvia Fowles finished off the season averaging a double-double in points and rebounds for the fourth time in her career and led the league in field goal shooting for the fifth time in her career.
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On September 14,2017, the WNBA announced that Sylvia Fowles won the WNBA Most Valuable Player Award.
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Sylvia Fowles would be voted into the 2018 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her fifth all-star game appearance.
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In 2018, Sylvia Fowles was chosen All-WNBA second team, Associated Press WNBA Defensive Player of the Year for the 4th time, and she broke the single-season record for rebounds with 404.
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In 2019, Sylvia Fowles was voted into the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her sixth all-star appearance.
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On September 8,2019, Sylvia Fowles signed a multi-year contract extension with the Lynx.
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On July 29,2020, Sylvia Fowles grabbed her 3,357th career rebound during the second game of the 2020 season to surpass Rebekkah Brunson, who happened to be the assistant coach of the Lynx at the time, and became the WNBA all-time leading rebounder.
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Sylvia Fowles finished the game with 15 points and 10 rebounds, bringing her total career rebounds to 3,360.
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Sylvia Fowles would make her return just in time for the playoffs.
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However, in the semi-finals, they would get swept by the Seattle Storm who would end up being the eventual champions, Sylvia Fowles was unable to play for the entire series.
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In 2021 Sylvia Fowles won her fourth WNBA Defensive Player of the Year joining Tamika Catchings as the only player with 4 Defensive Player of the Year Awards averaging a career high 1.8 steals and averaging 1.8 blocks.
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Sylvia Fowles played for Galatasaray Medical Park of Turkey for three off-seasons from 2010 to 2013.
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Sylvia Fowles was a member of the team representing the US at the 2005 World University Games Team in Izmir, Turkey.
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Sylvia Fowles is a member of the United States women's national basketball team and she earned a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Sylvia Fowles was again invited to the USA Basketball Women's National Team training camp in the fall of 2009.
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Sylvia Fowles was named as one of the National team members to represent the USA Basketball team in the WNBA versus USA Basketball.
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In 2010, Sylvia Fowles was named to the national team which competed in the World Championships in Ostrava, and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
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Sylvia Fowles averaged 8.9 points per game over the course of the tournament.
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Sylvia Fowles was one of 21 finalists for the US Women's Olympic Basketball Team Roster.
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Sylvia Fowles is currently majoring in mortuary science at the American Academy McAllister Institute, where she has online studies in embalming, cremation, and funeral directing.
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Sylvia Fowles's hobby has been knitting since she was 6.
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Sylvia Fowles is a spokesperson for the Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy and has two nephews who suffer from epilepsy.