WNBA legend Candace Parker has been married to her wife Anna Petrakova for more than six years now. They married in secret and only made the announcement two years after the ceremony. However, this is Parker’s second marriage. She was previously married to NBA player Sheldon Williams before the couple called it quits in 2016.
Candace Parker’s Wife Anna Petrakova and Kids
The three-time WNBA champion Parker and Petrakova’s journey took them from teammates to wives to mothers of three.
The two first crossed paths in 2012 when Petrakova joined UMMC Ekaterinburg in her native Russia, where Parker was already playing during the WNBA offseason. The two swiftly formed a close friendship that ultimately blossomed into a romance.
Parker proposed to Petrokova in early 2019, and they got married in December, keeping it a secret from the outside world. They finally revealed their marriage and pregnancy two years later.
In February 2022, the couple welcomed their first child together, a son named Airr Larry. Larry joined his big sister, Lailaa, Parker’s daughter from her marriage to Sheldon Williams. The couple announced that they were expecting another child on December 14, 2003. Petrokova gave birth to the couple’s second child, named Hartt Summitt, in May 2024.
Candace Parker’s Marriage To Ex-Husband Sheldon Williams
Parker married Shelden Williams, a former Duke University basketball standout who also played in the NBA, on November 13, 2008. The couple welcomed a daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, in 2009. After eight years of marriage, the couple announced their split in November 2016, when Williams filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
More On Anna Petrakova
Anna Petrakova, daughter of former EuroLeague player Viktor Petrakov, played college basketball at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, becoming the first Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year from the school.
She went on to a successful professional career in Russia with teams including Spartak, CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Kursk, and UMMC Ekaterinburg, winning the EuroCup Women’s Championship in 2012 and the EuroLeague Women and FIBA Europe SuperCup in 2013.
Petrakova also represented Russia at the 2012 London Olympics and earned Russian Premier League Player of the Year honors in 2015. She retired after the 2016–2017 season and became an assistant coach for the Russian National Team.
