No. The Indiana Fever guard has said for years that she would like a husband and children, and she has not named a partner publicly.
Sophie Cunningham is not married and has no children. The 30-year-old, who joined Caitlin Clark at the Indiana Fever in a 2025 trade from the Phoenix Mercury, has never announced an engagement. “I also want to be married. I want to have kids,” she said on the Like A Farmer podcast in February 2026. “I want to definitely have that and have more of a traditional kind of like family feel.”
The comedian Theo Von put the question to her directly in late October on his This Past Weekend podcast. He asked whether she was engaged and, in the same breath, whether she was going on the reality show Love Island. Cunningham answered only the second part: “No. Why would I go on Love Island?” She told him she used to be “one foot in, one foot out” with her Christian faith and is now “two feet in”, and that she is trying not to live “that life”. When Von asked whether she meant being in a relationship, she said she meant Love Island.
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What she has said about marriage
In June 2018, when she was 21, Cunningham posted on X: “all of my friends are gettin married and I’m over here like….but that’s ok, someone will enjoy my weirdness one day”.
Five years later her older sister, Lindsey, married near their hometown of Columbia, Missouri, with Sophie as maid of honour. In August 2024, while still playing in Phoenix, Cunningham told The Travis Hearn Podcast: “Everyone back home is married, and they have kids, and I’m literally the only single one.” She went on: “I pray for my husband every single night and my future kids.”
On Like A Farmer, she said the hard part for women in her league is “trying to be married, trying to have kids, but also have a career and making sure that like you’re timing all that correctly”. She put the typical WNBA career at “only like two years”.
Her faith shapes what she is looking for. In the 2024 Hearn interview she said her “No. 1 thing” is someone who will “push me towards Christ”, and later in the same conversation she said she wants a husband who will “lead our house”. In April 2026 she announced on TikTok that she had been baptised.
Why she rarely dates
On the same Like A Farmer episode, the host asked about her worst first date. “People don’t come up to me … I don’t really go on dates,” Cunningham said. When he pressed her on the last real date she had been on, she asked whether dinner counted, then used the show’s rule that lets a guest skip one question. “My life is a mystery to a lot of people,” she said. “And that’s how I want it to be.”
Von also asked where a man would even meet her. “I don’t really know,” she said.
Part of the reason, she thinks, is the way she comes across. She told Like A Farmer she may “give off like an intimidating vibe”, although friends she has known since kindergarten tell her she is “the biggest freaking dweeb”. Height narrows things further for the 6ft 1in guard. “I could never date someone shorter than me,” she said on her own podcast in March 2026.
The job adds to it. “Athletes are hard though … our schedule sucks … you’re always on the road,” she told Von. Male athletes, she said, are a particular worry: “They have so much money … anything’s accessible … if you’re not mature enough to handle all of that, it could be scary.”
Is Frank Adams her boyfriend?
Neither Cunningham nor Adams has said so, and no relationship has been confirmed.
The rumours began in March 2026, when fans noticed Cunningham at several Grand Canyon University basketball games, where Adams works. They grew on 11 September 2026, when the fan account Fever Updates posted photos of the pair on a boat at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri with the caption “Sophie Cunningham revealed her new boyfriend.” The pictures appear to have been taken during a belated celebration of her 30th birthday, and The Sun identified the man as Frank Adams.
Cunningham did not post the photos, as Sports Illustrated noted. Her own post from that weekend shows a birthday cake reading “Sophie is 30!”, and none of her Instagram posts shows a partner.
Adams is the head athletic trainer for GCU’s men’s basketball team. Before joining the university in 2025, he spent six seasons on the Phoenix Suns’ training staff, during the years Cunningham played for the Mercury.
EssentiallySports found that a quote in which Cunningham supposedly admitted they had dated in secret since her Phoenix days was fabricated.
Her last public relationship
On 20 May 2020, Cunningham posted on X: “I think my boyfriend may also be missing the @WNBA szn as much as me (& yes that’s my jersey!)”. The Big Lead identified him as Jakob Neidig, a former Missouri State athlete. She has not spoken about him publicly since.
Other claims about her love life
| Claim | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| She has a wife, Virginia Murdoch | Murdoch is married to a different woman of the same name, Sophie Cunningham AM, an Australian author born in 1963. |
| She is married to Cade Cunningham | The claim began with a fake Instagram meme in June 2025. She and the Detroit Pistons guard are not related, and neither has said they are a couple. |
| She is dating Michael Porter Jr. | The two have been friends since childhood in Missouri, and his sister Cierra was her teammate at Mizzou. Neither has described them as a couple. |
| She had an affair with Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein | The claim appeared secondhand in a May 2025 lawsuit filed by Gene Traylor, who was then working in the Suns’ security department. Cunningham was not a party to the case. She called the claim “untrue and extremely hurtful” and the Suns denied it. The case was dismissed in April 2026 with no settlement. |
She has also said plainly that she dates men. When Von raised relationships between players in the league, she said “guys only … Just men”, adding: “to each their own”.
Where she is now
Cunningham is a free agent after playing the 2026 season on a one-year deal with the Fever, and her winter will keep her on the move. She told Von she will play in Project B, a new offseason league with games in China, Singapore, Spain and Germany.
In September 2026, according to EssentiallySports, she told the Sons and Daughters podcast that she would like to own land, get married, have children and keep donkeys and cows.
