It seems guard Hailey Van Lith’s tenure with the Chicago Sky can be brief.
The crew introduced Monday it waived 2025 first-round decide Van Lith. It thanked and wished her nicely in a put up on X.
Why did the Sky waive Hailey Van Lith, and what’s subsequent?
ESPN’s Kendra Andrews reported the Sky waived Van Lith due to the teaching workers’s “style-of-play desire.” Chicago could also be in search of extra playmaking after ending tenth within the league in assists final season (19.3 assists per sport). Notice: The WNBA had 13 groups final season earlier than increasing to fifteen through the offseason.
Van Lith, who performed essentially the most video games (172) in NCAA Division I girls’s basketball historical past, struggled for enjoying time throughout her rookie season. The previous TCU Horned Frogs star battled an ankle difficulty however performed 29 video games, averaging 12.4 minutes and three.5 factors per sport on 33.9 p.c taking pictures from the sphere.
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