{"id":934439,"date":"2026-10-15T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934439\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:12:11","slug":"shakira-austin-and-sonia-citron-named-to-the-wnba-all-defensive-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934439\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakira Austin and Sonia Citron named to the WNBA All-Defensive Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Thursday, the WNBA announced that Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin was named the All-Defensive First Team. In addition, guard Sonia Citron was named to the All-Defensive Second Team. This is the first such honor for both players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Austin led the Mystics\u2019 low post defense, where she grabbed 408 total rebounds and blocked 51 shots in the 2026 season. Per a <a href=\"https:\/\/mystics.wnba.com\/news\/shakira-austin-sonia-citron-named-to-2026-wnba-all-defensive-teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>, Austin also led all WNBA players in individual shooting distance while she was the closest defender to the restricted area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For Citron, she is the first 22 year old Mystics player since Ariel Atkins in the 2019 season to make the All-WNBA Defensive team. Her individual defensive rating was 101.7, third among all guards who averaged 30 minutes or more a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics were one of the WNBA\u2019s top defensive teams in 2026 despite (or because) they had the league\u2019s youngest roster. This is a well deserved honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the WNBA announced that Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin was named the All-Defensive First Team. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,737,630],"class_list":["post-934439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934439","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=934439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}