Last updated: October 9, 2026.
Paige Bueckers was three when her parents separated. She stayed in Minnesota with her father. Her mother moved to Montana. The Paige Bueckers family has been spread across two states ever since, and both halves of it still turn up for her biggest games.
Her father was her first coach. Her mother was a college runner. She has three younger half-siblings, and she calls one of them her best friend.
Quick Facts
| Full name | Paige Bueckers |
| Born | October 20, 2001, Edina, Minnesota |
| Raised | St. Louis Park, Minnesota |
| Father | Bob Bueckers |
| Mother | Amy Fuller (née Dettbarn) |
| Siblings | Half-brother Drew; half-siblings Ryan and Lauren |
| Team | Dallas Wings (No. 1 pick, 2025 WNBA Draft) |
| College | UConn, 2025 national champion |
| Honors | 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year |
Who Are Paige Bueckers’s Parents?
Paige Bueckers’s parents are Bob Bueckers and Amy Fuller. They married in June 1999 in Brainerd, Minnesota, and Paige is their only child together. They separated in 2004. Those dates come from People’s profile of the family.
Bob Bueckers, her father
Bob Bueckers works in software. He was a point guard in high school, the same position his daughter plays.
He coached her until seventh grade. He has said he tried her in other sports first, and that by first grade it was obvious basketball was the one. He told the site Ballislife that she was throwing any ball she could find from about age five.
Bob later remarried and had a son, Drew. People reports that Bob and Drew went to every one of Paige’s high school games.
Amy Fuller, her mother
Amy Fuller was Amy Dettbarn when she ran cross country and track at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She studied biology there and later earned a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.
After the separation she moved to Billings, Montana, where she works in the dental field. She remarried and had two more children, Ryan and Lauren.
The distance didn’t keep her away. She was in the building when Paige was named the Big East Tournament’s most outstanding player in 2024. She has described her daughter as playful and sarcastic, with a big personality.
Does Paige Bueckers Have Siblings?
Yes. Paige Bueckers has three younger half-siblings. Drew is her father’s son. Ryan and Lauren are her mother’s children.
Drew is the one she speaks about most. She has called him her best friend. He is biracial, and she has said that is part of why she spoke out for racial justice in 2020, when she marched in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd.
All three are still young and are kept out of the spotlight. People notes that the whole family, siblings included, came to her senior night at UConn in February 2024.
Where Did Paige Bueckers Grow Up?
Paige Bueckers was born in Edina and grew up next door in St. Louis Park, both suburbs of Minneapolis. As a child she also played Little League baseball as a catcher, plus football and soccer.
She went to Hopkins High School and joined the varsity team in eighth grade. In her junior year Hopkins went 32-0 and won the state title. She was the Star Tribune’s Metro Player of the Year three times and the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2020.
The town has not forgotten. On May 16, 2025, the day of her first WNBA game, Hopkins temporarily renamed itself Paige Bueckers, Minnesota.
How Did Her Family Shape Her Career?
Her father gave her the position and the early coaching. She describes herself as a pass-first player, which is how a point guard’s daughter might be expected to see the game.
At UConn she became the first freshman to win the major national player of the year awards, in 2021. Then came the injuries: ankle surgery in 2021, a knee fracture that December, and a torn ACL in August 2022 that cost her a full season.
She came back. On April 6, 2025, UConn beat South Carolina 82-59 for the national title. Before that game her father told CT Insider how much a championship would mean to her.
The Dallas Wings took her first in the 2025 draft. She averaged 19.2 points and 5.4 assists as a rookie, scored 44 in one game, the most ever by a WNBA rookie, and was named Rookie of the Year.
Dallas now has two No. 1 picks from the same summer who were first coached by a parent. The other is Cooper Flagg of the Mavericks.
What Is Paige Bueckers Doing Now?
Paige Bueckers played the 2026 season of Unrivaled, the three-on-three league, for Breeze BC and made the league’s first team. She made her debut for the senior United States team on March 12, 2026, with 16 points against Puerto Rico.
Off the court she runs the Paige Bueckers Foundation, which launched in 2022. In 2025 she confirmed she is in a relationship with Azzi Fudd, her former UConn teammate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are Paige Bueckers’s parents? Bob Bueckers, who works in software and coached her as a child, and Amy Fuller, a former college runner who lives in Montana.
Does Paige Bueckers have siblings? Yes. She has three younger half-siblings: Drew on her father’s side, and Ryan and Lauren on her mother’s.
Are Paige Bueckers’s parents still together? No. They separated in 2004, when she was three. Both have remarried.
Where is Paige Bueckers from? Minnesota. She was born in Edina, grew up in St. Louis Park and went to high school in Hopkins.
Who coached Paige Bueckers as a child? Her father, Bob, coached her until seventh grade.
Why is Paige Bueckers famous? She won the 2025 national title with UConn, was the first pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft and was the league’s Rookie of the Year.
Sources
- People, via Yahoo Sports: Paige Bueckers’s family, by Rebecca Aizin (April 2024, updated 2025)
- Wikipedia: Paige Bueckers, statistics and awards
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