Sophie Cunningham, an American professional basketball player, has accumulated a net worth of $2 million by 2026. Her career highlights include collegiate success, WNBA draft selection, and team transitions.
Sophie Cunningham, a professional basketball player from the United States, possesses a net worth estimated at $2 million as of 2026. During her collegiate years, she competed for the Missouri Tigers. In 2019, she was drafted as the 13th overall pick in the WBNA Draft by the Phoenix Mercury. Cunningham remained with the Mercury until 2024 before joining the Indiana Fever in 2025. Additionally, from 2019 to 2020, she played for the Melbourne Boomers, an Australian professional basketball team. In her 2025 WNBA season with the Indiana Fever, Sophie Cunningham is earning $100,000. This marks her seventh year in the league. She signed a one-year contract following a two-year, $304,500 extension agreed upon in the 2023–24 season. By the conclusion of the 2025 season, her total base WNBA earnings amount to roughly $637,780. Born on August 16, 1996, in Columbia, Missouri, Sophie is formally named Sophie Elizabeth Cunningham. Her parents, Paula and Jim Cunningham, were both athletes at the University of Missouri. Cunningham developed an early interest in martial arts, earning a black belt in taekwondo at the age of six. At Rock Bridge High School, she participated in basketball and volleyball, later stepping in as the football team’s kicker after the original player suffered a season-ending ACL injury. She attended the University of Missouri, her parents’ alma mater, and played four seasons of basketball for the Tigers. During her collegiate career, she started 129 games, averaging 17 points per game. In July 2025, Sophie Cunningham faced backlash after expressing her views on the WNBA’s choices for new expansion cities (Detroit, Philadelphia, and Cleveland). She remarked, "You want to listen to your players, too. Where do they want to play? Where are they gonna get excited to play and draw fans? I do think that Miami would have been a great one… Nashville's an amazing city. Kansas City, amazing opportunity." She further suggested that enthusiasm for the selected cities might be lacking. The City of Detroit responded via Twitter, stating, "The last time we were home to a WNBA team (Detroit Shock) we ranked top five in attendance for five straight seasons, No. 1 in attendance for three straight seasons and set a single-game attendance record of 22,076 fans at Game 3 of the 2003 WNBA Finals. Additionally, more than 775,000 people were excited to come to Detroit for the 2024 NFL draft. Detroit is a sports town. We're sure we'll see the same excitement for the WNBA returning." Cunningham was recognized as a McDonald's All-American in 2015 and honored as the SEC Freshman of the Year in 2016. She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team in 2016 and earned First-team All-SEC honors in 2017, 2018, and 2019. In 2019, both the Associated Press (AP) and the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) named her a Third-team All-American. © 2026 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved