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| wnba_profile = candace_parker }} Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and UMMC Ekaterinburg of Russia. She is the younger sister of former NBA player Anthony Parker. She attended the University of Tennessee in 2004 and was drafted by the Los Angeles Sparks in 2008. She may be best known for being the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game and the first woman to dunk twice in a college game—she set both milestones as a redshirt freshman on March 19, 2006. She also became only the second player to dunk in a WNBA game on June 22, 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Offseason 2008-09: Overseas Roster )〕 A versatile player, she is mainly a forward, but was listed on Tennessee's roster as a forward, center, and guard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006-07 Lady Vols Roster )〕 She was a starter on the Lady Vols basketball team, winners of the 2007 and 2008 NCAA championships. Parker won the 2009 Teen Choice Awards as the favorite female athlete in the sports category, and was a guest star on various Nickelodeon Shows, such as Figure It Out and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn. ==Early life== Candace Parker was born on April 19, 1986 to Sara and Larry Parker. She has two older brothers: Anthony Parker, who is a former NBA basketball player, and Marcus Parker, who is a doctor. She grew up in Naperville, Illinois. Her whole family loved basketball, and she began playing at an early age. Her father played basketball at the University of Iowa in the 1970s. The Parker family were also huge Chicago Bulls fans. Candace was worried about playing basketball, fearing she would not live up to the level of play her father and brother demonstrated, so she focused on playing soccer. It wasn't until the eighth grade that her family convinced her to play basketball. Her father helped coach and critique her. Parker said of the experience, "He did things to make me mad, to challenge me, because I was so much more athletic and had so much more knowledge of the game than everyone else that sometimes I just coasted. If me and my dad went to a park and he didn't think I was practicing hard enough, he'd just get in the car and leave. And I'd have to run home. I mean run home. Once I figured that out, I'd always try to go to close-by-parks." 〔"Biography Today", pp.144-145〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Candace Parker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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