WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Seven from Stanford in WNBA

Nneka Ogwumike, often referred to as "Nneka" or "Nneka7", played college basketball at Stanford University and went on to have a successful career in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), primarily with the Los Angeles Sparks. She's been a prominent figure both on and off the court, known for her skill, leadership, and advocacy for social justice within the league.

STANFORD, Calif. – The WNBA's 28th season warns this evening and seven players drafted out of Stanford are on the first day of the season programs of the association's 12 establishments. The Cardinal's seven in the association are the fourth-most among all schools (UConn - 16, South Carolina - 10, Notre Lady - 8).

Entering her thirteenth WNBA season, Nneka Ogwumike made a free-specialist move to Seattle this season following twelve years in Los Angeles. The 2016 WNBA MVP and a six-time All-WNBA pick, Ogwumike is falling off one more solid season, completing 6th in the association in both scoring (19.1 ppg) and bouncing back (8.8 rpg).

Ogwumike is joined on the Tempest by Kiana Williams. Initially drafted by the Tempest in 2021, Williams showed up in 14 games in 2021 and 2022 and makes her re-visitation of the WNBA in the wake of sharp searching in Seattle's last preseason game, scoring nine focuses on 3-of-6 shooting.

Cameron Edge will turn into the 34th Stanford player to show up in a WNBA game once she steps on the court for the Los Angeles Sparkles interestingly. The subsequent generally pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, Edge had a great senior season where she shot 51.1 percent from the field and found the middle value of 17.4 focuses per game to go with 11.9 bounce back and 3.7 blocks. A three-time All-American and double cross Public Protective Player of the Year, Edge was the main player in the country to average 17.0 places, 11.0 bounce back and 3.0 blocks per game last year, and got done with a For every of 45.75, the best imprint for a significant meeting player starting around 2018-19.

Lexie Structure enters her third expert season with the Indiana Fever in the wake of being taken with the 6th generally pick in 2022. She has showed up in 56 vocation games and began 29, including five last season, averaging 4.3 focuses and 2.2 bounce back shortly per game. Body had the fourth-year choice on her new kid on the block scale contract practice by the group on Friday.

Individual 2021 public top dog Haley Jones enters her sophomore season with the Atlanta Dream. Jones played in every one of the 40 games for Atlanta in 2023, beginning six. She scored a profession high 23 against Las Vegas on Aug. 22, had a season-high nine bounce back against New York on June 13, and recorded an individual best nine helps against the Connecticut Sun on June 15.

Alanna Smith marked a two-year manage the Minnesota Lynx on Jan. 31 following a season in Chicago. Smith saw activity in 38 games with the Sky and arrived at the midpoint of vocation highs in all cases with 9.2 places, 6.6 bounce back, 1.8 helps, 1.3 Sure thing:

She averages 1.3 blocks and takes 26.5 minutes per game.. A Most Superior Player finalist, she positioned in the association's main ten out of a few classes, remembering first for two-point shooting (62.6%), seventh in complete blocks (50), 10th in hostile bounce back percent (8.0), eighth in block rate (4.1) and take rate (2.5).

Karlie Samuelson marked a two-year manage the Washington Spiritualists on Feb. 1 subsequent to showing up in 76 games with the Los Angeles Sparkles (2023, 2021, 2019, 2018), Phoenix Mercury (2022), Seattle Tempest (2021) and Dallas Wings (2019). With the Flashes last season, Samuelson had profession best midpoints of 7.7 places, 3.0 bounce back and 2.0 aids 34 games. She likewise shot a vocation high 46.3 percent from the field and 94.1 percent from the free toss line. She was 6th in the WNBA in three-point rate, shooting 42.6 percent, and joined Jackie Youthful (Experts), Chelsea Dark (Pros) and Lexie Brown (Sparkles) as the main players to shoot something like 45% from the field and 40 percent from profound.

Since the WNBA's debut season, 33 previous Stanford players have showed up in a standard season game and seven players have brought home a joined eight WNBA titles.

 

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Stevenson to Join the Cardinal

Casted a ballot 2024 Major Ten Media Rookie of the Year at Purduen

Mary Ashley Stevenson, the 2024 Major Ten Media Green bean of the Year at Purdue, has moved to Stanford for the 2024-25 season and will have three years of qualification remaining, Setsuko Ishiyama Overseer of Ladies' B-ball Kate Paye declared Tuesday.

"Mary Ashley is one more phenomenal expansion to our program, somebody who is wildly cutthroat and endeavors to work on every day," Paye said. "She embraces all that Stanford brings to the table, is determined in the homeroom and a devoted understudy of the game. She is full grown for a youthful player and doesn't withdraw from a test. We are excited that she concluded Stanford is an ideal spot for herself and are eager to invite her into the crease."

"What I respect about the Stanford people group is its obligation to greatness in all that it does," Stevenson said. "That equivalent obligation to greatness is what I try to exemplify as a Stanford understudy competitor. In addition, its ladies' b-ball group loves to win thus do I!"

Stevenson began 33 games during her presentation season in West Lafayette and arrived at the midpoint of 9.7 places and 5.1 bounce back, one of nine significant gathering green beans in the country with those numbers. She scored a profession and game-high 25 in a 77-72 extra time triumph over Illinois on Feb. 5, the most elevated scoring execution by a Purdue first year recruit beginning around 2010-11. After six days, she went out and about at No. 14 Indiana and drove the Boilermakers with 16 focuses on 7-of-9 shooting. She was named USBWA Tamika Catchings Public Green bean of the Week after those exhibitions and, toward the finish of the time, arrived on both the mentors' and media's Enormous Ten All-Rookie Groups and was casted a ballot All-Large Ten decent notice by the association's media.

Stevenson drove all Large Ten freshmen with 11 rounds of no less than seven places and seven bounce back and completed as one of two first-year players in Purdue history with in excess of 300 places (329) and 150 bounce back (174). The 6-foot-2 forward likewise shot 81.7 percent from the line (85-of-104), seventh in the country among qualifying rookies.

As a prep champion for The Dalton School in New York City, Stevenson was evaluated as a four-star prospect and the No. 97 player in the country by ESPN HoopGurlz.

Stevenson is the third undergrad move in Stanford ladies' b-ball history and second this cycle. St Nick Clara's Tess Mend's exchange was declared yesterday. Over a long time back, Brooke Smith played at Duke as a first year recruit in 2002-03 preceding moving to The Ranch for her last three university seasons.