Categories: RepresentationSEW

Injured UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers to bypass early WNBA draft entry, return to Huskies for 2023-24 season

UConn star  Paige Bueckers, the 2020-21 women’s college basketball national player of the year, said Thursday that while she will be age-eligible to declare for the 2023 WNBA draft, she will return to the Huskies for the 2023-24 season despite being sidelined this upcoming season with an ACL injury.

“I’m not leaving. That is not in question,” Bueckers told reporters on Thursday in her first media appearance since her August injury. “People asked me, ‘What are you thinking about fifth year, COVID year, redshirting this year.’ I’m not thinking too far ahead about that at all. But I will be playing college basketball again.” Read More

admin

Recent Posts

How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate

Not since the swimmer Lia Thomas has a college athlete or team put the fiercely…

9 months ago

Geno Auriemma becomes all-time winningest college basketball coach in 40th year at UConn

UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma passed Tara VanDerveer as college basketball’s all-time winningest coach…

10 months ago

Lindsey Vonn Plans a World Cup Return as She Rejoins the U.S. Ski Team

Five years ago, Lindsey Vonn retired from ski racing, largely because her aching right knee,…

10 months ago

New York Liberty win their first WNBA title and celebrate the end of a long odyssey

As confetti fell and Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blared through the arena, the…

11 months ago

Susie Maxwell Berning, Hall of Fame Golfer, Is Dead at 83

Susie Maxwell Berning, a three-time champion of the United States Women’s Open golf tournament who…

11 months ago

SafeSport shelves probe of former NWSL coach, sparking outcry

Once a dominant figure in girls’ and women’s soccer, Rory Dames in recent years has…

11 months ago