{"id":418178,"date":"2026-01-18T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:40:10","slug":"wnba-player-has-jersey-retired-at-early-county-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418178\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA player has jersey retired at Early County alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) \u2014 What does it take to become a professional athlete? WNBA Indiana Fever player Makayla Timpson returned home recently as her high school, Early County, celebrated her professional success and retired her jersey!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Sunday, Jan. 18\u2019s Dialogue, Timpson shares what this honor means, how she was inspired and how she tries to inspire others! Her parents, Eric and Renay Timpson, also talk about their household of girls and the impact that sports and education had on the family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error that needs correction? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walb.com\/2026\/01\/18\/dialogue-wnba-player-has-jersey-retired-early-county-alma-mater\/mailto:walb-digitalproducers@gray.tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Let us know.<\/a> Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To stay up to date on all the latest news as it develops, follow WALB on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WALBNews10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WALBNews10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">X (Twitter)<\/a>. For more South Georgia news, download the WALB News app from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/walb-news-10\/id449395459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Apple Store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/search?q=walb+news+10+app&amp;c=apps&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Google Play<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WALB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) \u2014 What does it take to become a professional athlete? WNBA Indiana Fever player Makayla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[23407,175538,175543,175544,175545,49,48,70468,175536,175539,175540,175541,2803,175546,175547,88351,175551,34524,82,175537,175548,175549,630,175550,11043,175542,4143,4501],"class_list":["post-418178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-albany","tag-albany-ga","tag-blakely","tag-blakely-ga","tag-blakely-georgia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dialogue","tag-dialogue-walb","tag-early-county","tag-early-county-georgia","tag-early-county-high-school","tag-indiana-fever","tag-indiana-wnba-team","tag-karla-heath-sands","tag-makayla-timpson","tag-pro-athlete","tag-professional-athletes","tag-sports","tag-walb-dialogue","tag-walb-karla","tag-walb-karla-heath-sands","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-makayla-timpson","tag-wnba-players","tag-wnba-players-from-georgia","tag-womens-sports","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}