No Caitlin Clark in this All-Star game, how are we supposed to deal with that? Enter, Brittney Sykes, having her breakout season in arguably the most perfect time for the WNBA. With all the ratings boom and hype around the All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis, the league couldn’t hold Clark’s spot. They turned to the one person who was a hair’s breadth from a well-deserved All-Star selection in the first place.

You can’t really say ‘who is Brittney Sykes, where did she come from, is she worthy of CC’s spot?’ Sykes is emerging as a standout for her team and deserves her own spotlight. But we can answer one of those queries..

Where is Brittney Sykes from and What is Brittney Sykes Nationality?

Born on February 7, 1994, the 31-year-old Brittney Sykes is every bit American born and bred. She’s the youngest and only girl born to Michael and Regina Sykes. They raised her in Newark, New Jersey with her two older brothers.

Britt attended the University High School of the Humanities in Newark where basketball wasn’t all she did. She participated in the jazz band, pep band, and drumline while playing for the club team, Philly Belles and maintaining her 4-star recruit status.

While she was sought by Georgetown, Penn State, and Notre Dame, she didn’t go very far. Sykes chose Syracuse University in New York. Although a knee injury took her out for one of five seasons, she was like the second coming of Carmelo Anthony in Orange. She started in 137 of the 138 career college games, averaged 29.5 minutes per game, 1.9 assists per game, 5.9 rebounds, 13.4 points per game.

She graduated from Syracuse as the #3 ranked SU women’s basketball for career points scored (1846) and earned All-American honors, and the title of the winningest Syracuse Orange women’s basketball player with a total of 101 wins

What is Brittney Sykes ethnicity?

Sykes is of African-American descent. While she mentions some family tidbits – like her uncle not knowing she was openly gay till she was 26 – the Sykes fam is pretty private. We’d get sporadic appearances of her parents and brothers on her social media but that’s about it.

Is Brittney Sykes Christian?

Like most athletes in the public domain, Brittney isn’t overt about her religious affiliations. Though one look at her body art reveals her spirituality and beliefs..

Her tattoos around her ACL surgery scars traces her journey through her high school, Syracuse, and WNBA logos and the Olympic rings. She even has a tattoo of the Joker to represent being misunderstood. Her grandfather, who helped her through her injured college seasons, is memorialized in a Swiss Army Knife tattoo. Bible verses are inked on her wrists. Regina Sykes was strict. She didn’t let Brittney skip Church for more basketball practice. She allowed more leeway to ensure Britt earns an athletic scholarship to college.

The task of replacing Caitlin Clark in an All-Star game is honestly quite thankless. But if anyone’s gonna do it, it has to be Brittney Sykes. She has the talent as well as the ‘I got this’ attitude about her to shine in this game. Welcome to the Big-Time, Brittney Sykes, at last!