Name: Diana Taurasi

Position: Guard

Sport: Basketball

Event(s): Women's 5x5

Height: 6-0

DOB: 6/11/1982

Birthplace: Glendale, Calif.

Hometown: Chino, Calif.

High School: Chino High School (Chino, Calif.) '00

College: University of Connecticut '04, Sociology

Team/Club: Phoenix Mercury

Coach(es): Sandy Brondello

Olympic Experience

• Five-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020); five-time Olympic medalist (5 golds)
• Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, gold
• Olympic Games Rio 2016, gold
• Olympic Games London 2012, gold
• Olympic Games Beijing 2008, gold
• Olympic Games Athens 2004, gold
• One of 11 players to have earned an Olympic gold medal, FIBA World Cup gold medal, WNBA title and NCAA title
• Owns U.S. Olympic single-game records for 3-pointers made (6) and attempted (10), both of which came against Serbia in 2016
• Hit a perfect 15-of-15 from the line at the 2008 Olympics, which trails just Juliene Simpson’s 16-of-16 in 1976 in the U.S. Olympic record book

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2018 – gold
• Years of participation: 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018
• Medals: 4 (3 golds, 1 bronze)
• Gold – 2018; 2014; 2010
• Bronze – 2006

Personal: Daughter of Mario Taurasi, who was born in Italy and raised in Argentina, and Liliana Taurasi, a native Argentinian...Has one older sister, Jessika...Family moved to southern California before she was born...Father, Mario, played professional soccer as a goalie...Speaks Spanish … Married to two-time Olympic silver medalist from Australia, Penny Taylor, and the two have a son, Leo, born in 2018...Four-time USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year...Nicknamed White Mamba by Kobe Bryant.

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