Brittney Griner Biography

Brittney Yevette Griner, winner of the 2012 Best Female Athlete award, is a professional basketball player for the Women’s National Basketball Association, Phoenix Mercury staff. At Baylor University, she played college basketball in Waco, Texas. She was named AP Player of the Year in 2012, as well as the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Griner is the youngest of four children born to Raymond and Sandra Griner. She was born on October 18, 1990 in Houston, Texas, United States.

Griner was educated at Nimitz High School in Houston. During high school, she played volleyball on the varsity team. In her senior year, she played basketball in the Texas 5A girls’ basketball state championship game, where she played 32 games and 52 dunks, with a record seven dunks in a single game. She managed to record 25 blocks in a game with Houston Alief Hastings, which led her to set the record in high school play in the United States by a woman. In 2009, she was named a WBCA All-America and played the game. She scored 20 points and collected 9 rebounds for the team.

Griner attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas and played college basketball. During her freshman year, she was described as one of the best shot-blockers in women’s basketball history, after she blocked 223 shots. She set an NCCA tournament record after blocking 14 shots against the Georgetown Hoyas on March 22, 2010.

Standing 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), Griner began a professional career in 2013 when she was taken by the Phoenix Mercury during the WNBA Draft. She debuted a game of hers on May 27, 2013, playing against the Chicago Sky. Since then, she has been Mercury’s cornerstone in the WNBA, winning the 2014 WNBA Finals. In September 2011, during the European training tour, Griner played for Team USA for two weeks with the Geno Auriemma’s trainer. She managed to average 12.8 points and 7.3 rebounds in Europe.Griner represented the United States at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He earned several honors. rivals.comranked her as the number one high school player in the nation. In 2009, she was voted the State Farm/WBCA High School Player of the Year and was featured in ESPN’s Rise Magazine. In 2011, she won the WBCA NCAA Division 1 Defensive Player of the Year. She is also the winner of the WBCA NCAA Division 1 Defensive Player of the Year in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, she was honored with the Honda Award and an all-sports Honda-Broderick Cup winner. In 2013, Griner also won the ESPY Award for Best Female College Athlete. She also won the Ann Mayers Drysdale Award in 2012 and again in 2013. Griner’s dedication and successful career have earned her a net worth of over $2 million with an annual salary of $600,000. Her weight is 93 kilograms (207 pounds).On April 17, 2013, Brittney Griner publicly announced that she is a lesbian when she was interviewed by Sl.com. And she added that she was often bullied during her childhood and said: ‘It’s hard. Just being teased for being different. Just being bigger, my sexuality, everything.’ On August 14, 2014, she announced that she was engaged to WNBA player Glory Johnson and that they married on May 15, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. After one day the couple announced that Johnson is pregnant, on June 5, 2015, Griner filed a cancellation of the marriage citing duress and fraud, as she has no biological connection to the baby. On April 22, 2015, they are arrested after police catch the couple fighting at her home in Goodyear, Arizona. On May 15, 2015, Griner and Johnson were suspended by the WNBA for seven games and ordered to attend domestic violence therapy for 26 weeks.