Top overall vote-getter for 2006 WNBA All-Star Game, and a leading candidate for 2006 WNBA MVP and Defensive Player of the Year honors.

Led Fever in points, rebounds, assists and steals in each of four seasons.

Defensive Player of the Year in 2005, and third in balloting for MVP.

Named WNBA Player of the Week eight times in four seasons.

Three-time WNBA All-Star and four-time All-WNBA.

Fastest in WNBA history to reach each of four significant milestones: 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 400 assists, 300 steals.

Olympic gold medalist and a USA starter in every game of the 2004 Olympics.

Joined John Smoltz and Donovan McNabb as a finalist for the 2005 Wooden Citizenship Cup.

Was a personal guest of President George W. Bush while attending the 2004 State of the Union Address.

Runner-up for MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in 2003.

Was runner-up in voting for Defensive Player of the Year in 2002 and third for MVP.

2002 WNBA Rookie of the Year.

Four-time Kodak All-American at Tennessee.

One of only two Lady Vols to score 2,000+ points and pull down 1,000 rebounds.

Received an ESPY award as the 2000 College Player of the Year in addition to Naismith National Player of the Year Award.

Selected Freshman of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, The Sporting News and the SEC coaches.

Her nicknames are Mik, Mika or Catch...she is president of the WNBA Players Association, and she earned a master’s degree in sports studies at the University of Tennessee, completing commencement exercises, 5/6/05…she attended Duncanville High School in Duncanville, Texas...she considers her family as the only role models she'll ever need...while in the seventh grade she decided to pursue a career in basketball...she is an avid poetry writer and lists her favorite author as E. Lynn Harris...she wears No. 24 because her father, Harvey, who played in the NBA, wore 42, her brother wore 21, which is half of 42 and her sister Tauja (who played at the University of Illinois) wore 12, which is opposite of 21 and half of 24...Tauja was a standout college player at Illinois and was drafted in the third round (#37 overall) by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2000 WNBA Draft...her father was a teammate of current Fever coach Brian Winters, during four seasons (1980-83) with the Milwaukee Bucks…some day she would like to be the general manager of a WNBA team…if she could play against any NBA player it would be Alonzo Mourning, because "I have always admired him. He has definitely shown the heart and determination of a true champion”...she has received the WNBA's Community Assist Award on five occasions, and earned honorable recognition in January 2004 when President George W. Bush extended a personal invitation to the State of the Union Address at the U.S. Capitol, where she spent the evening with Laura Bush and other honored guests…she joined the Philadelphia Eagles’ Donovan McNabb and the Atlanta Braves’ John Smoltz as finalists for the 2006 Wooden Citizenship Cup which is presented annually to college and professional athletes for exhibiting outstanding community service…born with a hearing disability, she wore a hearing aid as a young girl…in 2000, she was honored with the Reynolds Society Achievement Award by the world-famous Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston...that annual award is given to an individual who has overcome hearing, vision or voice loss and who has distinguished themselves and provided inspiration to others...Catchings launched the Catch the Stars Foundation, Inc. in December 2004 to assist disadvantaged youth help to achieve their dreams…a public reception was held to unveil the foundation at the NCAA Hall of Champions, 3/11/05…she has annually conducted fitness clinics and basketball camps in areas surrounding Indianapolis, Dallas, Tex., Knoxville, Tenn., and Chicago, Ill., where she was raised…her fitness clinics are conducted in November each year, with canned food items being the only cost of admission…those canned food items are annually donated to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, prior to Thanksgiving…Catchings has also been an annual participant and sponsor of the Indiana Pacers’ annual Thanksgiving Dinner to feed the area’s less fortunate…current programs for her foundation include the Catch the Fever Youth Holiday Basketball Camp; Catch on to Fitness Clinics; Catchings Corner (donated Fever game tickets) and S.T.A.R.S. (Sisters Teaching and Reaching Sisters)…for more information on the foundation, contact catchthestars24@aol.com or visit the Web site www.catchin24.com.