Athletes
Brittney Griner Net Worth
Brittney Yevette Griner's Net Worth as of 2024
$3 Million
Brittney Yevette Griner was born on born 18 October 1990 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player with the Phoenix Mercury team and also a member of China’s Zhejiang Golden Bulls.
So how rich is Brittney Griner? She has an estimated net worth of $3 million which she has accumulated from her basketball career, which she has done professionally since 2013. She is considered to be one of the highest paid female basketball players today, as she is reported to be receiving an annual salary of $600,000 playing for China’s Zhejiang Golden Bulls.
Brittney Griner Net Worth $3 Million
Griner is the daughter of Raymond and Sandra Griner and the youngest of four children. She went to Nimitz High School where she played volleyball as a freshman and basketball all throughout high school. During her senior year, she led the team to the Texas 5A girl’s basketball state championship game. Griner also holds the record for the most number of blocks in a game, a feat she achieved against the Houston Alief Hastings with a total of 25 blocks. Due to her exemplary performance on the court, the mayor of Houston declared May 7 as Brittney Griner Day in 2009. That same year, Griner became part of Women’s Chinese Basketball Association (WBCA) All-American and led the team to victory at the WCBA High School All-America game.
After high school, she played ball at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. As early as her freshman year, Griner had already established herself as one of the best shot blockers in women’s basketball. In 2010, she became the seventh female to dunk during a game and the second to do it twice in one game. A few months later, she was suspended for two games after punching a fellow player after a foul, but despite this mishap, her team made the Final Four in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament, eventually losing to eventual champions the University of Connecticut. Two years later, they were declared victors after an undefeated season of 40 wins, with Griner being named the Final Four’s Most Valuable Player. She was also the WBCA NCAA Division Defensive Player of the Year from 2009 to 2013. After their win, Griner applied and became part of the finalists’ roster on the US women’s national basketball team for the Olympics but later withdrew, and a month later, broke her wrist.
She then joined the 2013 WNBA Draft and became the first overall pick by the Phoenix Mercury. During her first season, she became known for her dunking skills, and became the first in WNBA history to dunk twice in a game and the first to do so in a play-off game. In the championship game, the Mercury defeated the Chicago Sky, their third win in the team’s history. During the WNBA’s off-season, Griner left for China to join Zhejiang Golden Bulls team, which offered her a salary six times more than the maximum salary at the WNBA. Her net worth continues to grow.
Apart from basketball, Griner enjoys longboarding and has two pet snakes named Audii and Sage. In 2013, Griner came out as a lesbian. A year later, she was engaged to fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson. However, weeks before their wedding, the couple was arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct in their home in Arizona. Despite the incident, they married on 9 May 2015. Nearly a month after, and a day after they announced Johnson’s pregnancy, Griner filed for annulment under claims of fraud and duress. Days later, WNBA suspended both Griner and Johnson for a total of seven games after Griner pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. In addition, Griner was subjected to 26 weeks of mandatory domestic violence counseling.
Athletes
Tiger Woods Net Worth
Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods was born on 30 December 1975 in Cypress, California USA, of part-Chinese, and African- and Native- American (father) and Thai (mother) descent. He is one of the the world’s highest earning sportsmen, a professional golfer who was ranked number one in the world for a total of 545 weeks between in 1997 and 2010, and then for another 60 weeks in 2013-14, the most of any golfer, and during which period he won 119 tournaments on the PGA and European tours.
So just how rich is Tiger Woods? Regardless of the fact that Woods’ divorce from ex-wife Elin Nordegren (former Swedish model), cost him $100 million dollars – including $54.5 million in mortgage payment finalised in January 2016 – authoritative sources estimate that Tiger’s net worth is now still over $770 million, accumulated from golf prize money of around $160 million, and the rest from endorsements during a 20 year career, totalling overall more than $1.3 billion.
Tiger Woods Net Worth $770 Million
Encouraged by his father Earl, Tiger became a child golfing prodigy, already at the age of 3 putting against comedian Bob Hope. He was called on TV shows and published in Golf Digest magazine. He won age group events around the world from the age of eight, and being a 15 year-old teenager he became the youngest US Junior Amateur champion. He was educated at Western High School, Anaheim, but golf was his priority, and at 20 (1996), he became the first in golf history to win three consecutive US Amateur titles, while (apparently) studying at Stanford University.
Tiger then turned professional, and immediately signed multi-million dollar contracts with famous companies such as Nike and Titleist. Next year Woods won his first ‘major’, the US Masters, and achieved number one world ranking, the youngest and the fastest to get to that position. The list of his winnings is endless and achievements too many to mention, but apart from aforementioned 79 victories in the USA and Europe – only Sam Snead has won more(82) – he has won two Japan Golf Tour events, an Asian Tour event, one PGA Tour of Australasia event, as well as 21 titles as an amateur. Of particular significance is that Tiger has won 14 ‘major’ titles, second only behind Jack Nicklaus(18), which has included the ‘grand slam’ of golf three times. In addition, he had been awarded PGA Player of the year 11 times and the Byron Nelson award eight times. There can be no doubt that Tiger Woods has earned his net worth.
Woods is considered the most successful player of all times, partly because of his winning record, but also because he is the first and the only golfer to have earned more than a billion dollars. This fortune was made not only by playing golf, but also by signing very lucrative contracts with companies such as Rolex, General Motors, American Express, and Gatorade apart from Titleist and Nike, and becoming an ambassador for Gillette. Moreover, the businesses of Tiger Woods Foundation which promotes golf, and Tiger Woods Design which is involved with golf courses development, are also very profitable. The athlete is a published writer with “How I Play Golf” as well, which has brought him steady income from 1.5 million copies sold. He has also written a column for the magazine “Golf Digest’ – presumably both added to his net worth.
Following his very public divorce from Elin Nordegren who he married in 2004 – they divorced in 2010 and have two children – also involving details of infidelity over the years, Tiger Woods dated Olympic Games skiing gold medallist Lindsey Vonn for a couple of years, but apparently no more. He was raised a Buddhist, and professes to still follow the teachings.
Athletes
Roger Federer Net Worth
Roger Federer was born on 8 August 1981, in Basel, Switzerland to Robert and Lynette Federer, the latter’s South African descent entitling Federer to hold both Swiss and South African citizenship. Roger is perceived by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time, and this title could well be deserved both in successes on the court and maintenance at the highest level, plus his sporting personality rarely equalled in professional sportspeople.
So just how rich is Roger Federer? This outstanding professional tennis player is estimated to have a current net worth of $420 million, increasing momentarily as he continues to play most weeks of the year, and annual prize money plus endorsements can approach $100 million.
Roger Federer Net Worth $420 Million
Roger Federer first became interested in tennis when he was still a child. Starting school at six years of age, he quickly became the best tennis player in his age group. Eight years later he became the national age group champion, and was sent to train at the Swiss National Tennis Centre in Ecublens.In 1998 he won the ITF junior singles tournament and became the ITF Champion of the Year. After that his career skyrocketed. As of mid-2015, the Swiss-born athlete holds the record for ranking in the ATP No. 1 position for 237 consecutive weeks (from 2004 to 2008), and in total 302 weeks. The tennis icon has appeared in 25 Grand Slam finals and won seventeen of them. He has broken numerous records playing in these tournaments, including the record for 10 consecutive finals, and has acheived a Grand Slam of titles, plus jointly holding the record of seven Wibledon titles (with Pete Sampras) and five US titles (with Sampras and Jimmy Connors). During his long career, Federer has won over 80 tournaments in total, and it has been reported that he has won more prize money than any other player, although this is difficult to establish as values constantly change in comparison with previous champions.
Roger Federer also earns a great deal of money from his endorsement contracts. He has signed long-term deals with Nike, Rolex, Wilson and Credit Suisse, and recently he decided to collaborate with champagne brand Moet & Chandon. In addition to being one of the best-paid athletes out there, his endorsement contracts are just as impressive, as he receives $40 million every year just from his sponsors! According to Forbes, he holds # 8 place in a list of 100 top-earning celebrities as of 2013. But despite his huge financial success and celebrity status, Roger Federer does not hold back when it comes to helping those in need. In 2003 together with his mother he established the Roger Federer Foundationin order to help disadvantaged people and promote a healthy lifestyle. He was also one of the most active celebrities to participate in organizing charities raising money for the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 and Haiti earthquake in 2010.
He is fluent in Swiss-German, German, French and English languages. Like all men in Switzerland, Federer was supposed to serve in the Swiss army, but in 2003 he was released from this duty because of continuous back pain. Roger Federer, who is often called Maestro, is married to the former professional tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec. They met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she was competing as well. Due to a foot injury she retired from professional sports and now manages her husband’s public relations. In 2009 the couple married in Basel , and has two sets of twins – twin boys and twin girls.
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