UConn Star Sarah Strong’s Parents Are Former Professional Basketball Players

Meet UConn Star Sarah Strong’s Parents Otto Greule Jr - Getty Images "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links. " Sarah Strong, the UConn basketball star who helped lead the program to a national championship last year, is striving to lead the Huskies to another title this year. Strong arrived in Connecticut as the top-ranked recruit in the 2024 class , and has lived up to that billing at every turn.

Strong has quickly established herself as one of top players in the country. By the end of the regular season, she had been named Big East Freshman of the Year, unanimously selected to the All-Big East First Team alongside teammate Paige Bueckers, and earned Division I WBCA Freshman of the Year honors. While the talent and work is all hers, one might say that basketball is in her blood.

Born February 3, 2006, in Madrid, Strong spent the first decade in Spain, where her father was playing professionally at the time. (Her parents have since separated . ) Basketball runs on both sides of her family—her father is also a former player—though Strong has said neither parent pressured her into the sport.

“They said, ‘If you don’t want to do this, [I] could stop wasting my time,’” Strong told Andscape in 2024. “I said, ‘I want to play basketball. I want to go to college and want do this.