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2023 WNBA Draft
The 2023 WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) Draft, the WNBA's draft for the 2023 WNBA season and 28th draft in WNBA history, was held following the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 2023 draft took place at Spring Studios New York on April 10, 2023. It was exclusively televised on ESPN in the United States and on TSN3/5 in Canada. Draft lottery The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2023 draft took place on November 11, 2022, and was televised on ESPN leading into ESPN's women's college basketball game that evening featuring defending National Champion South Carolina at Maryland. The four non-playoff teams in 2022 qualified from the lottery drawing: Indiana Fever, Atlanta Dream, Los Angeles Sparks, and the Minnesota Lynx. The Sparks made a trade in February 2022 that allowed their pick to ultimately end up with the Washington Mystics at the time of the drawing. Each team had a representative at the lottery dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of New York State, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City’s economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city’s historical birthplace. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. New York City is the headquarters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napheesa Collier
Napheesa Collier (born September 23, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). After playing college basketball for the UConn Huskies women's basketball, University of Connecticut Huskies, Collier was drafted by the Lynx with the 6th overall pick in the 2019 WNBA draft. She participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics games in Tokyo as part of the United States Women's Basketball team that won the Gold medal, Gold Medal. High school career In her freshman year, Collier played for Jefferson City High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, where she averaged 17.9 points and 9.8 rebounds. In her sophomore year, she transferred to Incarnate Word Academy, where she averaged a high of 24.6 points and 12 rebounds. Collier also competed on her high school track team. She was the 2013 and 2015 Gatorade Missouri Player of the Year, one of five finalists for the 2015 Naismith Award as national Player of the Yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Mikesell
Taylor Ayn Mikesell (born September 30, 1999) is an American basketball player. She was drafted by the Indiana Fever in the 2023 WNBA Draft and played during the 2023 season for the Atlanta Dream. She played her college basketball at Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference. She previously played for the Maryland Terrapins and the Oregon Ducks. High school career Mikesell played for Jackson High School in Massillon, Ohio. As a senior, she scored 60 points, shooting 14-of-17 from three-point range, against Austintown Fitch High School. During the game, Mikesell became the all-time leading scorer in Stark County, Ohio and set the state record for three-pointers in a game. She averaged 30.7 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.7 steals per game, leading her team to the Division I state quarterfinals. Mikesell was named Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association Division I Player of the Year. Rated a five-star recruit by ESPN, she committed to playing college basketball for Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Lopez Sénéchal
Lou Lopez Sénéchal (born May 12, 1998) is a Mexican-French professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Lopez Sénéchal played her collegiate basketball for the UConn Huskies of the Big East Conference. She previously played for the Fairfield Stags and was named MAAC Player of the Year as a senior. She was selected 5th overall in the 2023 WNBA draft by the Dallas Wings. Early life and career Lopez Sénéchal was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her father Carlos Lopez is Mexican and her mother Sophie Sénéchal is French. Her parents separated when she was five. She moved to Grenoble, France with her mother while her father remained in Mexico. She had grown up playing soccer but she tried basketball for the first time at the age of eight. With her soccer experience she had no problem with her legs using her hands to dribble was new. But this was the first time she truly felt at home while in France, because the spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorka Juhász
Dorka Kata Juhász (born December 18, 1999) is a Hungarian professional basketball player who plays for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA. She played college basketball at Ohio State and UConn. College career Juhász committed to play at Ohio State in March 2018. She was rated as the 12th-best international player from 2018 class and the 5th-best forward. She also considered Missouri and Louisville. Juhász spent three seasons with the Buckeyes before entering herself into the transfer portal. Juhasz stated that the desire to continue to improve as a player, as well as her aspirations to play at the professional level as the key reasons why she ultimately decided it was her time to leave the Buckeyes. After a week in the portal, Juhász announced that she would be transferring to the UConn Huskies. College statistics Professional career Minnesota Lynx Juhász was selected 16th overall by the Minnesota Lynx in the 2023 WNBA draft. Juhász made her WNBA debut on May 19, 2023, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haley Jones
Haley Jones (born May 23, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played her American collegiate basketball for the Stanford Cardinal women's basketball, Stanford Cardinal of the Pac-12 Conference. As a sophomore in 2021, she was named an all-conference selection in the Pac-12. The Cardinal won a NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship, national championship that season, and Jones was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player. She was selected 6th overall in the 2023 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream. Jones was born in Santa Cruz, California. She attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California, San Jose, where she was named the Naismith Prep Player of the Year and a McDonald's All-American as a senior in 2019. A five-star recruit, Jones was ranked the number one recruit in the 2019 class by ESPN. As a freshman at Stanford University in 2019–20 Stanford Cardin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Joens
Ashley Joens ( ; born March 16, 2000) is an American college basketball player for the Iowa State Cyclones of the Big 12 Conference. She plays both the small forward and shooting guard positions. Joens had been considered one of the top prospects in the 2022 WNBA draft, but chose not to enter the draft and returned for a fifth season in 2022–23. High school career Joens attended Iowa City High School, where she was a two-sport athlete in basketball and track and field. In basketball, she played on the varsity team all four years and started every single game, eventually becoming the school's all-time leader in points. As a high school senior, she averaged 30.7 points and 11.4 rebounds per game and was also named Miss Iowa Basketball at season's end. A five-star recruit out of high school, Joens committed to playing college basketball at Iowa State, and was the program's highest rated recruit in history. College career Freshman season As a highly touted freshman, Joens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Horston
Jordan Lynn Horston (born May 21, 2001) is an American basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the WNBA. She played collegiately at Tennessee Lady Volunteers of the Southeastern Conference. High school career Horston attended Columbus Africentric High School in Ohio, where she played four varsity seasons. As a high school senior, she helped her team win their second straight state title, despite suffering from a fever the previous night. Despite having an off shooting night (3-for-20 from the field), she put up 10 rebounds and 6 assists and wore a surgical mask when on the bench to contain her cough. The no. 2 overall prospect and the top guard in the country, Horston committed to playing college basketball at Tennessee. She was also a participant in the McDonald's All-American Game, where she put up 14 points and was named the game's MVP. College career Freshman season Initially committing Tennessee to play for Holly Warlick, Horston learned of Warlick's firing whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zia Cooke
Zia Cooke (born January 9, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. She played in college for South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). At Rogers High School in Toledo, Ohio, she was rated a five-star recruit by ESPN and earned McDonald's All-American honors. A two-time All-SEC selection in college, Cooke helped South Carolina reach the Final Four of the NCAA tournaments in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Early life and high school career Cooke grew up playing for a boys youth football team in defiance of her mother, Michelle, who wanted her to join a cheerleading team instead. In seventh grade, she shifted her focus to basketball. Cooke played basketball for Rogers High School in her hometown of Toledo, Ohio. She averaged 21.7 points, 4.6 rebounds, five assists and 3.1 steals per game as a junior. She led her team to the Division II state title, recording 33 points and 14 rebounds in the title game, and was named ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Berger
Grace Elizabeth Berger (born June 3, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). High school career Berger played basketball for Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Kentucky. In her junior season, she averaged 14.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, helping her team win the Seventh Region title and reach the state finals. As a senior, Berger earned ''Courier-Journal'' Athlete of the Year, Kentucky All-Star and Seventh Region Player of the Year honors after averaging 15.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists and leading Sacred Heart back to the regional final. She was a three-time All-State selection in high school. Rated a five-star recruit by ESPN, Berger committed to play college basketball for Indiana over offers from Kentucky, Louisville and Michigan. College career As a freshman at Indiana, Berger averaged 5.5 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. In her sophomore season, she aver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brea Beal
Breanna Beal (born November 8, 2000) is an American basketball player. She played college basketball at South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Early life and high school career Beal was born on November 8, 2000, to Kevin Beal and Nicole Adamson. She grew up training for basketball under the guidance of her father, who played for UTEP at the collegiate level, and drew inspiration from Maya Moore. She also took part in gymnastics and swimming before focusing on basketball. In eighth grade, Beal joined the Midwest Elite Amateur Athletic Union program. She made local headlines as one of the top eighth-grade players in the country. Beal played basketball for Rock Island High School in her hometown of Rock Island, Illinois. In her first high school season, she was the only freshman on the team and averaged 16.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, leading Rock Island to a 29–4 record. As a sophomore, Beal averaged 20.6 points, 9.8 rebounds, 3.2 steals and 3.1 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laeticia Amihere
Laeticia Amihere (born July 10, 2001) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her father is from the West African country of Ghana, while her mother hails from Ivory Coast. She played college basketball at South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Career Amihere has won gold at the 2015 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship for Women as part of the junior team, and then bronze at the 2017 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup. Amihere is currently playing with the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. In July 2021, Amihere was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team. On April 3, 2022, Amihere became an NCAA national champion. The South Carolina Gamecocks beat the University of Connecticut to win their second national title, the first since 2017, with a score of 64 to 49. Career statistics WNBA regular season , - , style="text-align:left;", 2023 , style="text ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
