[2] She is also the first player at any level in history to be officially credited with scoring a quintuple-double. One such achievement is sometimes called a 20–20, double double-double or double-20, when a player accumulates 20 or more in two statistics in a game.

I came in with a team mindset, and I run it just like you would operate a professional sports team. These were the first career triple-doubles for both players.

Tamika’s parents divorced when she was in 7th grade. He's the one that walks beside me through my ups and downs and the one that keeps me focused on where I am going in life. You have to love defense to get a quadruple-double.

Even uniting people.
[13], Catchings continued with the team when it was invited to the 1997 FIBA Junior World Championship (now called U19) held in Natal, Brazil. That’s just 8 points shy of the elusive quintuple double. In 2009, the Fever would have more postseason success, as the chemistry developed between Catchings and Douglas, the Fever would advance to the WNBA finals, making it Catchings's first finals appearance. In basketball, a double-double is a single-game performance in which a player accumulates ten or more in two of the following five statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots. Special double-doubles are rare. We do this by providing conferences, podcasts, and SWSM Magazine which are made possible thanks to local and national sponsors. The last time that two players had recorded their first career triple-doubles in the same game was when Donnie Butcher and Ray Scott (Detroit Pistons) did it on March 14, 1964 (they were not rookies). In the 2016 Summer Olympics, Catchings played for Team USA and earned her fourth olympic gold medal as they beat Spain 101–72.

Catchings played for the USA women's basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, helping the team win the gold medal. Tamika Devonne Catchings (21 de xunetu de 1979, Stratford, Nueva Jersey) ye una ex-xugadora de baloncestu qu'apostó 14 temporaes nes Indiana Fever de la WNBA y pal Galatasaray de la lliga turca.

To deter this, NBA rules allow rebounds to be nullified if the shot is determined not to be a legitimate scoring attempt.[33]. [151] The feat is rare in the WNBA; indeed, nine years passed in 2005–2014 between two triple-doubles. She finished the game with 22 points, 10 rebounds and 7 steals also surpassing Lisa Leslie for most WNBA career playoff rebounds (471). In her senior year of college, The Indiana Fever drafted Tamika to play for the team. On the court, Catchings’ legacy is cemented as one of the greatest women ever to play the game. [188] West's biography at NBA.com claims that he once recorded an unofficial quadruple-double with 44 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 blocks. A five-by-five is a performance in which a player accumulates a total of five in five statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks—in a single game. She retired from basketball in 2016 with multiple WNBA records and recognition as one of the best 20 players ever. Smart Women Smart Money’s mission is to provide financial education and empowerment to women throughout the United States. Since the 1983–84 season, Tim Duncan also holds the record for most total career double-doubles in the NBA, having recorded 841. An active participant in 14 seasons (not counting 2001) with the Fever, Catchings joins an elite list of NBA counterparts with as many seasons of an entire career playing with the same team: Kobe Bryant (19), John Stockton (19), Tim Duncan (18), Reggie Miller (18), Dirk Nowitzki (17), John Havlicek (16), Hal Greer (15), Tony Parker (15), Elgin Baylor (14), Joe Dumars (14), David Robinson (14), and Jerry West (14).
The team was coached by Geno Auriemma.