5-foot-9 guard Yvonne Anderson is starting at guard for the best team in Europe, Fenerbahçe. On the international stage, she won the 2021 EuroBasket with Serbia and last year, at age 32, she made her WNBA debut. She was kind enough to talk to us about the influence of her father (former men’s college basketball coach Mike Anderson) on her career, her international experiences and her current team.
What is the level of involvement of your dad in your career? Did it change over time? A dad/coach can be a blessing and a curse. Was it a bit of both in your case? Does he still watch your games and give you advice on particular plays?
I’m always grateful to have a father who was a coach because I was always around the game. This created the love for the game and work ethic I have. When I was younger, he was an assistant coach so my mother always brought me to the gym and he would do basketball workouts with me after his practices were finished. Obviously, as I got older and he was a head coach, his involvement changed, but that was me…
