20 Facts About Teresa Weatherspoon

Teresa Gaye Weatherspoon was born on December 8,1965 and is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Vinyl BC of the Unrivaled basketball league.

Teresa Weatherspoon was previously the head coach of the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association.

Teresa Weatherspoon played for the New York Liberty and Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and served as the head basketball coach of the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters.

In 2016, Teresa Weatherspoon was chosen to the WNBA Top 20@20, a list of the league's best 20 players ever in celebration of the WNBA's twentieth anniversary.

Teresa Weatherspoon is one of the original players of the WNBA in 1997 when she joined the New York Liberty in the WNBA's inaugural season.

Teresa Weatherspoon was the first winner of the league's Defensive Player of the Year Award.

From 2000 to 2003, Teresa Weatherspoon would make the All-Star Team every year and have the same productivity throughout the years with no drastic dip in her scoring or rebounding abilities, showing her reliance and toughness to the organization.

Teresa Weatherspoon had the distinction of being the only WNBA player to start every one of her games until the 2004 season.

In 2007 Teresa Weatherspoon was the head coach of the Westchester Phantoms of the American Basketball Association.

In 2016, Teresa Weatherspoon was named in the WNBA Top 20@20.

On September 26,2019, Teresa Weatherspoon was named two-way player development coach for the New Orleans Pelicans.

Teresa Weatherspoon was later promoted to a full-time assistant coach for the Pelicans on November 16,2020.

On October 12,2023, Teresa Weatherspoon was hired to be the Head Coach of the Chicago Sky of the WNBA.

On November 15,2024, Teresa Weatherspoon was announced to be one of the six new head coaches of the Unrivaled basketball league.

Teresa Weatherspoon was selected to represent the US at the inaugural Goodwill games, held in Moscow in July 1986.

Teresa Weatherspoon continued with the National team at the 1986 World Championship, held in Moscow, a month after the Goodwill games in Moscow, although she was injured and unable to play.

Teresa Weatherspoon was selected to be a member of the team representing the US at the 1987 World University Games held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Teresa Weatherspoon recorded 21 steals over the course of the event, tied for first place on the team.

Teresa Weatherspoon was born to Charles and Rowena Teresa Weatherspoon in Pineland, Texas.

Teresa Weatherspoon's fans call her by her nicknames "T-Spoon" or "Spoon".