Pili is the sixth Alaskan to make the WNBA. She now shares the record as the highest overall WNBA draft pick by an Alaskan.
Utah’s Alissa Pili, right, poses for a photo with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected eighth overall by the Minnesota Lynx during the first round of the WNBA basketball draft on Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York.
Pili is the sixth Alaskan to make the WNBA. She now shares the record as the highest overall WNBA draft pick by an Alaskan with her new teammate Ruthy Hebard of Fairbanks. Hebard was taken 8th overall by the Chicago Sky in 2020 and now plays for the Lynx. Pili addressed her WNBA Draft prospects before lacing up to“That’s always been a childhood dream of mine to be drafted,” Pili said.
Pili then transferred to the University of Utah in 2022 where she starred as the team’s leading scorer and rebounder for the last two years and was named thePili is Inupiaq and Samoan, and has developed a following of Indigenous basketball fans eager to see her wherever she plays.won the 2023“I think what’s pretty neat is the pride that Alyssa has in being from Alaska,” Roberts said. “There’s a ton of pride in being Alaskan and her heritage and her family.
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