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Te-Hola Paopao from South Carolina makes Atlanta Dream 2025 opening day squad

(This story has been updated to reflect the latest information.)

Former women’s basketball in South Carolina, the start-up guard Te-Hola Paopao, made the opening day of Atlanta Dream for the 2025 WNBA season.

Paopao, who played two seasons under coach Dawn Staley from 2023, was the first Gamecocks player who was moved in on April 14 when she became number 18 (second round). Bree Hall was recorded by the Indiana fever number 20, but was lifted on May 5. Sania Feagin was selected by the Los Angeles Sparks No. 21 and made his last roster. In this WNBA season, Staley’s second rookie became.

All WNBA service plans had to be completed on May 15th to 5pm. With 13 WNBA teams that have a maximum of 12 places, there are only 156 places in the entire league.

Paopao, a 5-foot 9 shooter, began the last two seasons for South Carolina after she started her career in Oregon. This season she achieved an average of 9.4 points and 2.8 templates and improved her theft per game average from 0.8 to 1.1. Their templates led the team and their point per game became the fourth.

After Feagin had done the squad, Staley X, which was previously known as Twitter, took both she and Paopao.

“Congratulations Pao!” Staley wrote. “You look comfortable! You look like you belong! You look like a dream that has become true!

In Atlantas pre-season defeat against Indiana fever on May 10, Paopao was the bank’s first guard for the dream and ended with 14 points. It shot 5: 6 from the field, including 3-on-4 from 3-point territory.

Staley has two former players on the Dream squad this season when Paopao played for the experienced security guard Allisha Gray, who played for stale for stale in the 2016-17 season.

Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina Athletics for the Greenville News and the USA Today Network. E -mail you [email protected] And follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @lulukesin

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