Angel Reese

CTL-E-5898 · Person · other · 2002–present

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Combined Graph record U-00396 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0179 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5898. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Angel Reese, born 6 May 2002 in Randallstown, Maryland, is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA. A McDonald's All-American at Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, she began her college career at Maryland before transferring to Louisiana State University, where in 2023 she led the Tigers to their first national championship, was the tournament's Most Outstanding Player and set the NCAA single-season record with 34 double-doubles. Chicago drafted her seventh overall in 2024, and her rookie season set league rebounding standards: a record 15 consecutive double-doubles and a league-best 13.1 rebounds per game, followed by a second rebounding title at 12.6 per game in 2025 and a second All-Star selection. Chicago traded her to Atlanta in April 2026. That September she became the first WNBA player to reach 500 rebounds in a single season, and in October 2026 she reached her first WNBA Finals, with Atlanta facing the Golden State Valkyries.

The record

• Also known as: Bayou Barbie
• Role(s): athlete

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Angel Reese entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5898 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1022 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American basketball figure.. Vital status: LIVING — playing in the 2026 WNBA Finals with Atlanta in October 2026 (Athlon Sports / October 2026 Finals coverage). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): NCAA champion and tournament Most Outstanding Player 2023 with an NCAA-record 34 double-doubles; WNBA rebounding leader in 2024 (13.1 per game) and 2025 (12.6); first player to 500 rebounds in a WNBA season (September 2026) (Britannica; ESPN; Athlon Sports) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: WNBA, Dream and LSU press photography of Reese exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5898-angel-reese.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Relationships

• Chicago Sky — played for
  Angel Reese played for the Chicago Sky in 2024–25; she is with the Atlanta Dream in 2026 (her homed record, CTL-E-5898, describes her as an Atlanta Dream player), so this edge states a closed 2024–25 tenure, not a current affiliation.

Sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Angel Reese" — American forward and one of the WNBA's top rebounders; led LSU to the 2023 national championship; first two seasons with Chicago before a trade to Atlanta; rookie-season rebounding record and 15 consecutive double-doubles; 13.1 rebounds per game in 2024 and a league-best 12.6 in 2025 — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Angel-Reese (primary source · build store)
• ESPN, "Angel Reese's WNBA records: Stats and honors to know" (April 2026) — No. 7 pick in 2024; two All-Star selections (2024–25); two rebounding Peak Performer awards; 15 consecutive double-doubles in 2024; traded to Atlanta in 2026 — https://www.espn.ph/wnba/story/_/id/41210840/angel-reese-wnba-records-tracker-chicago-sky (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Angel Reese" — born 6 May 2002; Saint Frances Academy and Maryland before LSU; NCAA single-season double-doubles record and 2023 title; SEC Player of the Year as a senior — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Reese (build store)
• Athlon Sports, "WNBA Makes Angel Reese Announcement During Chicago Sky Game" (19 September 2026) — first WNBA player to reach 500 rebounds in a single season; 31st double-double of the 2026 season against Chicago; vital-status evidence — https://athlonsports.com/wnba/atlanta-dream/wnba-makes-angel-reese-announcement-during-chicago-sky-game (build store)
• https://www.wnba.com/news/chicago-sky-trade-angel-reese-to-atlanta-dream (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Angel Reese was drafted No. 7 overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky, made 64 career appearances for the Sky, and is a two-time All-Star (WNBA / Chicago Sky press release, tier 2).

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