Kiah Stokes

Kiah Stokes — Biography

Kiah Stokes is a 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) center who holds both American and Turkish citizenship. She has won three WNBA championships with the Las Vegas Aces (2022, 2023 and 2025) and two EuroLeague titles with Fenerbahçe (2023 and 2024). In 2026 she signed with the Golden State Valkyries.

The first big chapter of her career came at the University of Connecticut. Over four years with the Huskies she was part of four consecutive Final Four teams and won three national championships between 2013 and 2015, with an undefeated 40-0 season in 2014. The New York Liberty took her 11th overall in the first round of the 2015 WNBA draft, and that year she made the league's All-Rookie team and its All-Defensive second team. In Turkey she played for Beşiktaş and BOTAŞ, leading the league in rebounding at 13.0 per game with BOTAŞ in 2017-18. She moved to Fenerbahçe in 2018 and shared in Turkish league titles in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she played at Linn-Mar High School in Marion and was named Gatorade State Player of the Year in 2010. In 2009 she was on the first-ever USA Basketball U16 national team, which won gold at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Mexico City. Her father, Greg Stokes, played for the Philadelphia 76ers. She also hosts the podcast Hangtime on the Underdog Sports Podcast Network, described as the first podcast hosted by a WNBA player.