{"id":515252,"date":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515252\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:48:07","slug":"east-bay-high-school-honors-wnba-star-sabrina-ionescu-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515252\/","title":{"rendered":"East Bay high school honors WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An East Bay high school is paying tribute to one of its star alumni.<\/p>\n<p>WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu grew up in Walnut Creek and went to Miramonte High School in Orinda.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, her alma mater voted to rename their gym in her honor. The gym is now called the Sabrina Ionescu Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu graduated high school a decade ago and played for the Oregon Ducks in college.<\/p>\n<p>She helped lead the New York Liberty to its first WNBA championship two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>School leaders call her a role model and inspiration, and the principal says they plan on hosting a ceremony to honor and welcome her when she comes back to visit the Bay Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Bay high school is paying tribute to one of its star alumni. WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,152741,172128,82,630],"class_list":["post-515252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-contra-costa-county","tag-east-bay","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515252","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=515252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}