Angel Reese on draft night
An Angel is heading to the Sky. The Chicago Sky selected LSU women’s basketball star Angel with the seventh overall pick in last night’s WNBA draft. Reese says she had a feeling Chicago would select her after positive conversations with Sky head coach Teresa Weatherspoon.
“Knowing that the conversations were so good and she felt like a mother to me,” Reese said.
Weatherspoon played for LSU coach Kim Mulkey when she was an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech.
Reese led LSU to its first national championship in women’s basketball in 2023 and this past season she was named the SEC Player of the Year. The All-American could have returned to LSU for one more season, but Reese says she’s ready for a new challenge.
“I wanted for myself, I wanted to start over, I feel like I’ve been on a high since the national championship, I wanted to hit rock bottom, I wanted to be a rookie again, I want to be knocked down by vets and I want to be able to get up and grow and be a sponge,” Reese said.
The WNBA begins its season next month. Reese says she’s looking forward to spending her summers in Chicago.
“The shopping is great and just the lifestyle, I’m excited, I feel like I’m a Chi-town girl,” Reese said.
Reese is the first LSU women’s basketball player selected in the first round of the WNBA draft since 2012 when Washington took LaSondra Barrett.
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