https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/6/3/womens-basketball-svanholm-heads-west-transfers-to-uc-davis.aspx

The UC Davis women's basketball program continued to ascend to new heights on Monday, as Head Coach Jennifer Gross announced the addition of 6-foot-6 transfer Lena Svanholm from Colorado State.

"We are so excited to welcome Lena to our UC Davis family," Gross said. "Lena is a very unique player who can run the floor, score inside and shoot the three. Her combination of size and versatility makes her an extremely difficult match-up and we cannot wait to start coaching her.

"She is going to add a new dimension to our team and will be a presence on both ends of the floor. In addition, Lena is a wonderful person as well as a very strong student. She is a tremendous fit here at UC Davis and will definitely help us carry on our tradition of success."

Wow! She'll be sitting this upcoming season due to transfer rules, obviously.

Yup!

That's obviously at the pointy end of the game, not at the Pele/Morgan level of things, but still.

Some salary-related blurbs from around the 'tubes:

[...] elite WNBA players can make about 15 times more from their overseas teams than they do from their WNBA teams. Diana Taurasi, for example, makes $1.5 million from her Russian team, enough that she infamously chose to skip the 2015 season after she was asked to do so by the team, UMMC Ekaterinburg.

[...] WNBA players in general make at least three times more from their foreign teams than their average WNBA salary.

[Griner] was the first overall pick in the 2013 WNBA draft, but as a rookie, could only make $49,440 per the WNBA's tight-pursed salary rules.

At the end of her first season, she played for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and earned $600,000 for a four-month season — or more than a dozen times her maximum WNBA salary.

Dallas also got three new players in a trade, so they had a pretty full roster.

Wow, the Wings waived Gustafson, too.

Waived yesterday, per Wings twitter. Dang. :(

Well, finish up her classwork and check out the Euro scene?

Wings are putting up daily recaps of their training camp on Twitter and their website.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/5/6/uc-davis-welcomes-tracy-hamm-as-womens-soccer-head-coach.aspx

New coach: Tracy Hamm (no relation to Mia). Cal alumna, most recently coached at SFSU.

With the big * of "if he is on the team," obviously.

I just copied the URL from the address bar in my browser and pasted it. :)

https://www.swishappeal.com/wnba/2019/4/11/18305909/wnba-draft-analysis-dallas-wings-arike-ogunbowale

"2019 WNBA Draft Analysis: Dallas Wings sneak away with big win"

And yeah, I had read about her looking to play overseas, but figured that the Power 5 were going to have the draft pretty well locked up. Sounds like Coach Gross worked the phones a little bit on her behalf. :up:

First WNBA pre-season game is less than a month away (5/9); first Wings pre-season game is the 13th. Regular season opens on 5/24.

Pretty compressed timeframe for the teams to get their draftees in camp and a roster figured out! Morgan's going to really be juggling her schoolwork and basketball now...wow. At least the Wings don't have a game on the same day as CoE commencments. Ha.

https://wings.wnba.com/news/dallas-wings-select-ogunbowale-gustafson-burke-and-bertsch-in-2019-wnba-draft/

“Morgan Bertsch was a top five scorer in the NCAA this season,” Bibb [Wings President and CEO] stated. “She is a four-player with tremendous offensive skill and excellent range. Her length and size will translate well in the WNBA and I’m eager to see her compete in camp.”