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2024 WNBA Draft Attendees

2024 WNBA Draft Attendee Bios

(supplied by the league)

Cameron Brink (Stanford): Brink capped her Stanford profession because the 2024 Naismith Defensive Participant of the 12 months Award winner, the Pac-12 Participant of the 12 months and, for the third time, the Pac-12 Defensive Participant of the 12 months. The 6-4 Brink, who received an NCAA championship (2021) and 4 Pac-12 titles (2021-24), is a three-time Related Press All-America decide, together with a First Crew choice this yr. Brink received the 2024 Lisa Leslie Award because the NCAA Division I’s greatest middle after twice being a finalist for the Katrina McClain Award as the highest energy ahead. She led all Division I gamers this season with 3.74 blocks per sport, ranked fifth with 11.9 rebounds per sport and averaged 17.4 factors per sport. Brink, who hails from Beaverton, Ore., is the godsister of NBA gamers Stephen and Seth Curry and the goddaughter of Dell and Sonya Curry.

Kamilla Cardoso (South Carolina): Cardoso, a 6-7 middle, received two nationwide championships (2022 and 2024) and made three Remaining 4 appearances (additionally in 2023) with South Carolina. She was named the Most Excellent Participant of the 2024 Remaining 4 after recording 22 factors and 11 rebounds towards North Carolina State within the semifinals and 15 factors and 17 rebounds towards Iowa within the championship sport. A local of Montes Claros, Brazil, Cardoso was an AP All-America Second Crew alternative and an All-SEC First Crew and SEC All-Defensive Crew honoree this season after main the convention in subject purpose proportion (59.4) and blocks per sport (2.48) and pacing the Gamecocks with 14.4 factors and 9.7 rebounds per sport. Cardoso was a finalist for the 2024 Naismith Defensive Participant of the 12 months and Lisa Leslie awards.

Caitlin Clark (Iowa): The consensus Division I Participant of the 12 months for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, Clark joined Chamique Holdsclaw, Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore, Brittney Griner and Breanna Stewart as the one gamers to be named the AP Participant of the 12 months a number of instances. Clark additionally earned her third consecutive Large Ten Participant of the 12 months honor this season. The 6-foot guard is the NCAA males’s and ladies’s all-time main scorer (3,951 factors), eclipsing Pete Maravich (3,667) and Kelsey Plum (3,527), respectively. She additionally surpassed Lynette Woodard (3,649), the highest scorer in AIAW historical past. In her 4 seasons at Iowa, Clark led Division I in scoring in all however her junior season. This season, she turned the one males’s or girls’s participant in NCAA historical past to attain 1,000 factors in back-to-back seasons and the primary Division I participant to guide her convention in scoring and assists in 4 straight seasons.

Marquesha Davis (Mississippi): The 6-0 guard from Springdale, Ark., was an All-SEC First Crew choice this season, when she led Mississippi with a career-high 14.0 factors per sport and contributed 4.7 rebounds per sport. Davis transferred from Arkansas to Ole Miss in January 2022 and helped the Rebels to consecutive NCAA Event appearances. She scored not less than 20 factors in eight video games this season and have become the primary Insurgent since Shakira Austin in 2020-21 to report three straight video games of not less than 20 factors.

Aaliyah Edwards (UConn): Edwards, a 6-3 ahead from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, helped UConn to a few NCAA Remaining 4 appearances, together with the 2022 championship sport. A finalist for the Katrina McClain Award in 2022-23 and 2023-24, Edwards averaged profession highs of 17.6 factors and 9.2 rebounds per sport this season. She was an AP All-America Third Crew alternative in 2022-23 and an All-Large East First Crew choice in every of her closing two seasons. The MVP of the 2019 Basketball With out Borders World camp, Edwards was the youngest member of the Canada Ladies’s Nationwide Crew on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Dyaisha Truthful (Syracuse): A 5-5 guard from Rochester, N.Y., Truthful scored the third-most factors in NCAA Division I girls’s historical past (3,403), behind solely Caitlin Clark (3,951) and Kelsey Plum (3,527). Truthful was an AP All-America Third Crew alternative this season, when she ranked eighth in Division I with 22.3 factors per sport and contributed 4.6 rebounds and three.5 assists. She completed second in ACC Participant of the 12 months voting and earned her second straight choice to the All-ACC First Crew. Previous to her two-year stint at Syracuse, Truthful excelled over three seasons at Buffalo.

Rickea Jackson (Tennessee): Jackson was a finalist for the Cheryl Miller Award as Division I’s greatest small ahead, an All-SEC First Crew choice by coaches and an AP All-America Honorable Point out decide at Tennessee in each 2022-23 and 2023-24 after transferring from Mississippi State. The 6-2 ahead from Detroit averaged 19.6 factors per sport over her two seasons with the Girl Vols, good for fourth in program historical past behind third-ranked Chamique Holdsclaw (20.4) and simply forward of Candace Parker (19.4). This season, Jackson paced the SEC in scoring (20.2 ppg) and registered a career-best 8.2 rebounds per sport.

Elizabeth Kitley (Virginia Tech): Kitley, who led the ACC this season in factors per sport (22.8) and rebounds per sport (11.4), earned three ACC Participant of the 12 months awards (2022-24), 4 All-ACC First Crew picks (2021-24) and three ACC All-Defensive Crew honors (2022-24). The 6-6 middle from Greensboro, N.C., was a finalist for the Lisa Leslie Award in every of her final 4 seasons and a semifinalist for each the Naismith Participant of the 12 months and Defensive Participant of the 12 months honors in her closing two. She led the Hokies to the 2023 NCAA Remaining 4 and completed because the profession program chief in factors, rebounds, blocks and double-doubles.

Nika Mühl (UConn): A 5-11 guard, Mühl was named the BIG EAST Defensive Participant of the 12 months in 2021-22 and 2022-23. In her four-year profession, she helped UConn attain the Remaining 4 thrice, together with the 2021-22 season when the Huskies met South Carolina within the Nationwide Championship Sport. Mühl led the BIG EAST in assists per sport in 2022-23 (7.9) and 2023-24 (6.5), incomes All-BIG EAST Second Crew honors each instances. A local of Zagreb, Croatia, she set UConn information for assists in a season (284 in 2022-23) and in a sport (15 vs. N.C. State on Nov. 20, 2022).

Charisma Osborne (UCLA): Osborne was a finalist for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award because the nation’s high capturing guard this season, when she averaged 13.9 factors per sport and helped UCLA attain the Candy 16 of the NCAA Event. After main the Bruins in scoring in 2021-22 (16.4 ppg) and 2022-23 (15.9 ppg), the 5-9 guard from Moreno Valley, Calif., recorded profession bests of 4.0 assists per sport and 58 whole steals this season. Osborne is UCLA’s profession factors chief within the NCAA period (2,276) and holds this system mark for three-point photographs made (282). A four-time All-Pac-12 choice, Osborne adopted Sabrina Ionescu because the second guard within the convention’s historical past to report not less than 2,000 factors and 800 rebounds.

Alissa Pili (Utah): Pili, a 6-2 ahead from Anchorage, Alaska, registered a breakout season in 2022-23 – her first at Utah after three seasons with USC – when she was an AP All-America Second Crew alternative and earned Pac-12 Participant of the 12 months and Most Improved Participant honors after main the convention in factors per sport (20.7) and subject purpose proportion (59.0). This season, Pili was an AP All-America Third Crew honoree, an All-Pac-12 choice and a finalist for the Katrina McClain Award when she ranked second within the Pac-12 with 21.2 factors per sport and shot 55.0 p.c from the sector.

Nyadiew Puoch (Australia): A 6-3 forward-center from Cranbourne East, Australia, Puoch has excelled within the Australian skilled girls’s basketball league, the WNBL. In 2023, her debut season in that league, Puoch was nominated for the WNBL’s Sixth Girl of the 12 months and Breakout Participant of the 12 months awards. In her second season with the Southside Flyers, she helped that workforce win the league’s 2024 Grand Remaining whereas enjoying alongside former WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson. Puoch averaged 6.2 factors, 3.6 rebounds and 1.0 help per sport. She additionally was a part of the Australian Beneath 19 workforce that received the silver medal on the 2021 World Cup in Hungary.

Angel Reese (LSU): Reese led the Tigers to the 2023 nationwide title because the Remaining 4’s Most Excellent Participant and was named the 2023 Sporting Information Athlete of 12 months, BET Sportswoman of 12 months and ESPN Breakthrough Athlete of 12 months. This season, the 6-3 ahead from Baltimore paced the SEC in scoring (18.6 ppg) and rebounding (13.4 rpg) for the second straight yr, changing into the primary participant to take action since 1990. She led the nation with 5.5 offensive rebounds per sport and ranked second with 13.4 rebounds per sport. The 2024 SEC Participant of the 12 months is a three-time AP All-America choice, together with First Crew honors in 2023 and Second Crew recognition this season. Reese, who posted an NCAA-record 34 double-doubles in 2022-23, was a three-time finalist for the Katrina McClain Award.

Jacy Sheldon (Ohio State): A 5-10 guard from Dublin, Ohio, Sheldon was an AP All-America Second Crew decide this season after rating third within the Large Ten with a team-leading 17.8 factors per sport. She additionally was a finalist for the 2024 Nancy Lieberman Award as Division I’s high level guard and a semifinalist for the Naismith Participant of the 12 months honor and the Daybreak Staley Award because the nation’s high guard. An All-Large Ten First Crew alternative in her closing two seasons, Sheldon paced the Buckeyes in scoring in 2020-21 (16.7 ppg) and 2021-22 (19.7 ppg). A yr in the past, Sheldon vaulted the Buckeyes into the NCAA Candy 16 with a last-second shot to beat North Carolina after which helped Ohio State attain the Elite Eight for the primary time in 30 years.

Celeste Taylor (Ohio State): Taylor was a finalist for the Naismith Defensive Participant of the 12 months honor this season with Ohio State and in 2022-23 with Duke. The 5-11 guard additionally was named the Large Ten Defensive Participant of the 12 months this season by the convention’s coaches, a yr after incomes ACC Defensive Participant of the 12 months honors. The 5-11 guard from Valley Stream, N.Y., led the Large Ten in steals per sport (2.5) this season and averaged 10.1 factors, 4.1 rebounds and three.4 assists per sport. In 2023, she set a Duke NCAA Event report with 10 steals towards Colorado.