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My Take
What strikes me most about Breanna Stewart is not just the trophy case, dominant as it is, from Naismith and Wooden honors to an NCAA Most Outstanding Player nod and WNBA Rookie of the Year. It is that she refused to let the system define her. Co-founding the Unrivaled league with Napheesa Collier signals an athlete thinking past her own stat line toward the future of the women's game. At 193 cm she is a generational talent, but I rate her higher as a builder than a scorer. Players who win and then change the conditions of winning are rare, and Stewart is firmly in that category.
Overview
Breanna Mackenzie Stewart ( bree-ANN-ə; born August 27, 1994), nicknamed "Stewie", is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Mist of Unrivaled. She is one of the most accomplished basketball players in history. Stewart is a founder of the Unrivaled basketball league together with Napheesa Collier.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Breanna Stewart
- Name (Japanese)
- ブレアナ・ステュアート
- Reading
- ぶれあな・すてゅあーと
- Born
- August 27, 1994 (age 31)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Dog
- Origin
- Syracuse, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 193 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Cicero – North Syracuse High School
- University
- University of Connecticut
Awards & achievements
- 2014 Naismith College Player of the Year
- American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year
- 2014 Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award
- 2015 John R. Wooden Award
- 2015 Wade Trophy
- 2016 Huskies of Honor
- 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player
- 2016 WNBA Rookie of the Year Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.