Seimone Augustus is not a name to be overlooked when basketball champions are mentioned. Since being first selected to the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) by the Minnesota Lynx in 2006, where she won the WNBA Rookie of the Year award, she has continued to impress everyone with a remarkable mastery of the terrain.
Seimone plays as a forward guard and shooter during the squad. Ten years into her professional career, she was selected as one of the WNBA’s Top 20 Players in commemoration of the league’s twentieth anniversary in 2016.
During his decade-long professional basketball career, Seimone Augustus won four WNBA titles (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) with his team and is also a seven-time WNBA All-Star. She played for Russian women’s basketball club Dynamo Kursk as well as internationally for the US national team. Seimone has won three Olympic medals (2008, 2012 and 2016) with Team USA. She was also part of the selected squad for the 2014 FIBA World Championship, where Team USA took first place by winning the gold medal.
Prior to the college phase of her career, she established herself as a star at Capitol High School in her birthplace, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was also named WBCA All-American and awarded the title of MVP. Meanwhile, Sports Illustrated compared her to one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Michael Jordan, when they put her on the cover with a headline that asked: Is she the next Michael Jordan?
Seimone Augustus played college football at Louisiana State University and was inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.
His net worth
The WNBA star has established himself as one of the greatest players of all time in the game. His career is highly successful and has brought in a salary and net worth to match. His monthly income has been pegged at $41,000, while his net worth, according to some online sources, is estimated at $2.5 million.
Seimone Augustus’ Wife
While many gay men have chosen to stay in the closet and live behind closed doors, struggling to be accepted by the larger community, many more have decided to be authentic in every moment they live. The basketball player belongs to the latter group and is openly lesbian. Her sexual orientation is one she has apparently known since middle school. She has been one of the most notable and vocal players in the professional LGBTQ world.
Ever since she first kissed a girl in high school, the shooting guard has had no trouble coming to terms with who she is in all honesty and feels too comfortable in her orientation as much as in his skin. However, all points tied when she met who would become her future partner, LaTaya Varner, in 2007. Seimone who describes herself as painfully shy fate to bring them together as usual she wouldn’t be at the Minneapolis club where they met for the first time.
After a bit of an awkward moment between them as they only look back now, she manages to get LaTaya’s number before the night is over. Although they were apprehensive at first, as they dated people from their own inner circles before then, their first date bonded them surprisingly well, but nothing could separate them afterwards.
The strangers on that first date completely immersed themselves in each other. They have become fiercely in love and proud to be lovers and hope that the flame will not be extinguished.
Seimone Augustus proposed to his partner in a Miami Beach in 2010. They got married on May 9, 2015 in a traditional and intimate Hawaiian wedding ceremony, which can best be described as a dream come true for the couple.
Height, weight and body measurements
Height is arguably a major criterion in qualifying to become a player in most sports. It goes without saying that great talents and skills sometimes come in small packages.
Seimone Augustus falls into the category of heightfavored athletes. The Lynx star is 1.83m tall and weighs 170lbs. Other details of his body size are yet to be confirmed.
