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Caitlin Clark invited to play with US national team during training camp at Final Four in Cleveland
Caitlin Clark has been invited to participate in the USA Basketball national team training camp during the Final Four in Cleveland, contingent on Iowa's season being over. The NCAA's Division I all-time scoring leader has earned three gold medals with USA Basketball junior teams,...
Lauren Jackson comes of retirement again in a bid to play for Australia at the Olympics
SYDNEY (AP) — Basketball star Lauren Jackson is coming out of retirement again in a bid to make the Australian team and compete at a fifth Olympics. The 42-year-old three-time WNBA MVP was included in Australia’s 26-player squad on Wednesday, and is widely tipped to make the...
Golden State franchise hires Kimberly Veale as VP of marketing and communications
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Golden State Warriors hired Kimberly Veale on Tuesday to be senior vice president of marketing and communications for their new WNBA franchise that begins play in 2025. Veale spent seven years in the WNBA with the Seattle Storm and Chicago Sky. She has been...
WNBA All-Star Allisha Gray wins Athletes Unlimited individual title
DALLAS (AP) — Allisha Gray won the Athletes Unlimited championship a year after finishing fourth in her debut, outscoring Texan Odyssey Sims in the four-week event in Dallas. The 2023 WNBA All-Star finished with 6,918 points, 872 more than Sims, a former Dallas-area high school...
Maya Moore jersey retirement set by Lynx on same day they're likely to play against Caitlin Clark
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Lynx announced Thursday they will retire the jersey of four-time WNBA champion Maya Moore, who cut short her playing career to help with her now-husband's release in 2020 from a wrongful imprisonment, during the upcoming season. The ceremony will...
Two-time defending champion Aces become the 1st WNBA team to sell out allotted season tickets
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces became the first WNBA team to sell out its allotted season tickets, the club said Thursday. Las Vegas, which sold out its approximately 8,600 season tickets, led the league in attendance last season with 9,551...
WNBA to use optical tracking to enhance player analysis
NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA will become the first women's professional sports league in the U.S. to have league-wide optical tracking after entering a multi-year deal with Second Spectrum, a Genius Sports technology solution. With this deal, the WNBA will have access to 3D tracking...
WNBA teams see increase in ticket sales after Caitlin Clark announces plans to enter draft
NEW YORK (AP) — Soon after Caitlin Clark announced her plans to enter the WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever's ticket offices got noticeably busier. “We've seen a lot of enthusiasm online and on social media,” Pacers Sports and Entertainment said in a statement to The Associated...
Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark says she will enter the WNBA draft and forego her final season of college eligibility
WNBA champion A'ja Wilson, Aces to play exhibition against Puerto Rico at her college arena
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — WNBA champion A'ja Wilson is coming back to the South Carolina Gamecocks arena where her statue sits when the Las Vegas Aces play Puerto Rico's national team in an exhibition game on May 11. Wilson played at South Carolina from 2015-18, helping the team to two...