College Notes:

• During her four years at Tennessee, UT posted a 134-10 overall record (.931), collected four Southeastern Conference regular season crowns, three SEC Tournament titles, competed in four NCAA Tournaments, won the NCAA title in 1998, advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 2000 and made the 1999 Elite Eight and 2001 Sweet Sixteen.
• ESPY award winner as the College Women's Basketball Player of the Year (2001).
• Consensus National Player of the Year (2000). 
• NCAA All-Final Four (1998, 2000), NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player (2000) and NCAA All-Regional (1999, 2000). 
• A four-time Kodak/WBCA All-America first team selection, National Rookie of the Year (1998) by The Sporting News and the USBWA.
• All-SEC first team (1998, 1999, 2000), All-SEC second team (2001), SEC All-Tournament Team (1998, 1999, 2000), SEC Newcomer/Freshman of the Year (1998).

Personal Notes:

• Born in Stratford, New Jersey; finished high school in Duncanville, Texas; after spending her first two years of high school playing basketball with her sister, Tauja, in Lincolnshire, Illinois; and currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Married Parnell Smith on Feb. 7, 2016.
• Daughter of Wanda and Harvey Catchings, has two brothers, Kenyon and Bryce and two sisters, Tauja and Chrystie.
• Earned a bachelor’s degree in sport management with a minor in business, has since earned a master’s in sport studies.
• Father competed 11 years in the NBA. He then worked in the league office as the Director of NBA Player Programs.
• Recipient of the 2015 ESPN Sports Humanitarian of the Year award and co-recipient of the 2016 National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy award.
• Appeared with First Lady Michelle Obama as part of the “Let’s Move Tour” in 2012 and has served since 2013 on the U.S. Department of State’s Council to Empower Women and Girls Through Sports.
• Has career ambitions of being a general manager of a pro team and in 2016 spent a couple of weeks working in the NBA/WNBA offices.
• Writes poetry.
• Collects Starbuck’s coffee mugs from countries she’s visited.
• Loves traveling, and her favorite trip was to the Bahamas with friends.
• Is a self-described neat freak.
• Annually hosts ‘Catch The Stars,' a holiday basketball camp that in 2015 celebrated its 15th year. She is the lead instructor at the three-day camp, which features more than 100 kids ages 9-14.
• Heavily involved in her community, was called upon by President Bush to attend his 2004 State of the Union speech as a representative of all 2004 Olympians and Olympic hopefuls.
• In addition to hosting camps and clinics and raising money to enable disadvantaged youths to attend basketball camps, Catchings created the Catch the Stars Foundation in 2004. Taking advice from Dawn Staley, the foundation is targeted towards at-risk youths, and its goal is to provide both academics and athletics programs. In 2008 Catchings was awarded the Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award.
• Enjoys Christian music and is into Lecrae and JMoss.
• Lists Alonzo Mourning as someone who has been a great source of inspiration, “because of everything that he's had to go through and he still is doing great things. He was that all-around player on the court, and through his foundation off the court he continues to make a difference.”
• Inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame (2012), Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame (2013), Tennessee Lady Vol Hall of Fame (2014) and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame (2015).
• Has some hearing loss and was honored during her junior season at UT with the Reynolds Society Achievement Award by the world-famous Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. The annual award is presented to an individual who has overcome hearing, vision or voice loss and who has distinguished themselves and provided inspiration to others.
• Collected numerous national accolades as a prep star, including the 1997 Naismith and WBCA National Prep Player of the Year awards. A four-time Parade Magazine All-American, also was named to the 1997 USA Today Girls High School All-USA first team, as well as Texas Player of the Year by USA Today.
• Named Illinois Miss Basketball as a sophomore (1995), becoming the first underclassman in Illinois to receive the award.
• Won three state championships (1994, 1995, 1997) and recorded a quintuple-double as a senior.

Social Media

• Twitter: @Catchin24
• Instagram: @Catchin24
• Web: catchthestars.org