Template:Did you know nominations/Marcedes Walker

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... that basketball player Marcedes Walker became an Olympian 16 years after her WNBA career ended?

Source: Walker played her only games in the WNBA in 2008 (and was released in-season), as explained in the article (see [1] for example) - she became an Olympian in 2024 [2]

ALT1: ... that 16 years after her WNBA career ended, Marcedes Walker became an Olympian? Source: same
ALT2: ... that Marcedes Walker's impact on the Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team was described as "resurrect[ing] the program from the dead"? Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ("Walker is to Pitt women’s basketball what Pete Gonzalez was to Pitt football and Brandin Knight was to Pitt basketball, rare athletes who resurrected their programs from the dead")
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/pending
Comment: Let me know if I need to more explicitly note the 16 years hook in the article.

Created by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 205 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:06, 10 July 2024 (UTC).