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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 5280828, member: 6620"] With the start of the WNBA season this evening, UConn has 14 former players in the W this year. Just behind them is Notre Dame, with 12 (see below). If Azzi Fudd and/or Olivia Miles had come out, those numbers would've gone up by one each. [LIST] [*]This year's additions are Sonia Citron on the Washington Mystics and the Westbeld sisters, Kathryn (Kat) on the Phoenix Mercury and Madeleine (Maddy) on the Chicago Sky. [*]Jess Shepard (Minnesota Lynx) returns after taking one year off from the W. [*]Kat Westbeld, for those who don't remember, was the starting forward and captain of ND's national championship team. She's had an odyssey to make it to the W, spending seven (7) years playing in leagues everywhere from Puerto Rico and Australia to Spain and France, working on her game every step along the way. Congrats to Kat and she's an example to many top-of-mind players who got cut that to make this league requires a lot of expertise and grit. [*]From an ND perspective this now means every starter on the 2018 NC team and the 2019 runners-up are on WNBA rosters: [/LIST] Westbeld; Shepard; Arike Ogunbowale (Dallas Wing); Jackie Young (Las Vegas Aces); Marina Mabrey (Connecticut Sun); and, Bri Turner (Indiana Fever). Turner took over for Westbeld in the 2018-19 season after sitting out the prior year, recuperating from an ACL. [MEDIA=twitter]1923130538786701529[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]