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Methodology

Where each claim
comes from

This page explains how information on the site is sourced, how confidently each claim is stated, and how current the whole thing is. It is a reference page: useful if you want to know why one sentence here says “reported” and another does not.

Full review completed 7 September 2026

Order of preference

Which sources come first

Source quality matters, but when credible sources genuinely disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than resolved by rank alone. Not every fact on the site has a primary source — some exist only in reporting, and those are marked accordingly rather than promoted.

  1. 01Primary and official records

    Documents and releases from the parties themselves: transactions, roster updates, draft records.

  2. 02League, club and university records

    Box scores, official bios and record books — the basis for almost every number on the site.

  3. 03Her own public statements

    Interviews and podcast remarks, used for what she says about herself rather than as proof of others' actions.

  4. 04Established reporting

    Named reporters at outlets with a correction policy; preferred over aggregation, always attributed.

  5. 05Specialist databases

    Statistical and contract trackers, used where they are the best available record and named when used.

  6. 06Secondary coverage

    Used only where nothing better exists, and then said plainly to be second-hand.

Confidence

How firmly a claim is held

These are editorial labels, not legal categories, and they describe how well something is evidenced.

Verified

Established by an official record or by the party in a position to know — a club release, a league box score, a university record book, or her own account of her own work.

Reliably reported

Carried consistently by credible reporting, with nothing contradicting it, but never officially published. Strong enough to state; not strong enough to call settled.

Not publicly established

Evidence positively supports the narrow statement that something has not been publicly established. Used only where that evidence exists, never because a record here is empty.

Sources disagree

Reliable sources disagree. The disagreement is stated, and no side is chosen for the reader.

Two examples from this site

Her 2026 salary is reported as $665,000 by IndyStar and by the contract tracker Spotrac, and nothing contradicts it. But the WNBA publishes no database of individual contract terms, so no official document can be pointed at. The figure is therefore attributed to the outlets that reported it, and the contract page says so in the first paragraph instead of burying it.

Her relationship status is the opposite case. What she has said about it is dated and quoted in her own words; none of it is converted into a label. A statement that she does not really go on dates, made in September 2026, is evidence of what she said that day, not a status that holds for every day after. The relationship page quotes what she has said, with dates, and stops there.

Absence is not evidence

Not finding an answer is not the same as proving that no public answer exists. Until something has been researched, nothing is said about it: “unknown”, “not public” and “unconfirmed” are all claims, and each needs evidence of its own. A statement that something is not on the public record follows a documented search and is worded as a statement about that search.

Her words, and words about her

A first-person statement — a podcast remark, an interview answer, a caption she wrote — is evidence of what she said, and is quoted with its date. A journalist's account of her life is treated as second-hand and named as reporting. A viral post is neither: it is traced to the account that made it and to the fact-check that followed. Two such posts, one a fabricated quote and one from an account that describes itself as satire, are listed on the relationship page with their origin, so that the record of what was false sits next to the record of what is documented.

Where sources disagree

When two good sources disagree, both are shown. Missouri Athletics lists her as a three-time All-SEC First Team selection and Sports Reference as a four-time All-SEC honoree; both wordings appear. Contract trackers read at different times give different career-earnings totals, and published net-worth estimates disagree with one another. Choosing a number in any of these cases would add precision the sources do not have.

Statistics

College and professional figures are kept apart, never added together. Numbers are held as structured data and reused across pages, so the same figure cannot drift between two sentences. Anything observed about them — a career high, a scoring record — comes from the figures shown on the page. Where a statistic is missing, it stays missing rather than estimated, and a season still being played is labelled partial. See the statistics. Structured sources are named where they are used.

Contract and financial information

Contract values come from established reporting and specialist trackers, which is the best record available for this league. Salary is treated as salary: not net worth, not total career earnings, and not endorsement income, none of which follow from a publicly reported deal. Commercial partnerships are recorded when the company or established reporting announces them, and only as far as the announcement goes: the existence of a deal is a fact, its value is not, and none is estimated.

Private life

The site covers publicly documented material relevant to her career and public work. Family members are described only as far as public records and her university's own biography describe them, and private addresses, day-to-day movements and unsupported relationship claims are outside what this publication reports on.

Images

Only photographs with a usable licence and clear provenance are published, with attribution kept wherever they appear. Commercially licensed images are not copied simply because they can be viewed online, and no AI-generated likeness of her is used. Every image on the site is listed on the photo credits page.

Corrections

When a supported correction comes in, the underlying fact is changed once and every page that depends on it follows. Errors found this way are fixed rather than argued with; the contact page is the route in.

External links are marked nofollow. This publication is independent of every person and organisation named in its sources. Verified 7 September 2026.