{"id":278232,"date":"2026-05-04T14:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278232\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:50:22","slug":"wnba-draft-pick-from-tcu-waived-before-regular-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278232\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA draft pick from TCU waived before regular season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden State Valkyries<\/a> waived rookie former TCU basketball standout Marta Suarez before the start of the WNBA regular season.<\/p>\n

Suarez was selected No. 16 overall by the Seattle Storm<\/a> in the second round of April\u2019s draft, then was traded to the Valkyries<\/a> minutes later.<\/p>\n

Suarez transferred to TCU from Cal for her final collegiate season, and she made the most of it. The 6-foot-3 forward averaged a career-high 17.1 points and 7.4 rebounds and shot a career-best 37% from 3, earning first-team All-Big 12 honors. The Horned Frogs repeated as Big 12 regular-season champions and reached a second straight Elite Eight.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Suarez was one of a record three TCU players taken in the draft, joining No. 2 overall pick Olivia Miles<\/a> (Minnesota Lynx<\/a>) and No. 37 overall Taylor Bigby<\/a> (Connecticut Sun<\/a> after trade from Portland Fire<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Game schedule dates, times, locations<\/p>\n

Rangers<\/a> \u25b6<\/p>\n

April 27 N.Y. Yankees 4, Rangers 2<\/p>\n

April 28 N.Y. Yankees 3, Rangers 2<\/p>\n

April 29 Rangers 3, N.Y. Yankees 0<\/p>\n

May 2 Detroit 5, Rangers 1<\/p>\n

May 3 at Detroit, 6:20 p.m., NBCSN, Peacock<\/p>\n

May 5 at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m., RSN<\/p>\n

May 6 at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m., RSN<\/p>\n

May 7 at N.Y. Yankees, 11:35 a.m., RSN<\/p>\n

May 9 vs. Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m., RSN<\/p>\n

May 10 vs. Chicago Cubs, 1:35 p.m., RSN<\/p>\n

TCU Baseball \u25b6<\/p>\n

April 25 TCU 4, Houston 2<\/p>\n

April 26 TCU 14, Houston 2 (7 innings)<\/p>\n

April 29 TCU 12, UT-Arlington 1 (7 innings)<\/p>\n

May 1 Oklahoma State 7, TCU 6<\/p>\n

May 2 Oklahoma State 9, TCU 2<\/p>\n

May 3 at Oklahoma State, 1 p.m., ESPN+<\/p>\n

May 8 vs. Utah, 6 p.m., ESPN+<\/p>\n

May 9 vs. Utah, 2 p.m., ESPN+<\/p>\n

May 10 vs. Utah, 1 p.m., ESPN+<\/p>\n

Stars \u25b6<\/p>\n

First-round playoff series (Wild win 4-2)<\/p>\n

Game 1: April 18 Minnesota 6, Stars 1<\/p>\n

Game 2: April 20 Stars 4, Minnesota 2<\/p>\n

Game 3: April 22 Stars 4, Minnesota 3 (2OT)<\/p>\n

Game 4: April 25 Minnesota 3, Stars 2 (OT)<\/p>\n

Game 5: April 28 Minnesota 4, Stars 2<\/p>\n

Game 6: April 30 Minnesota 5, Stars 2<\/p>\n

Wings\u25b6<\/p>\n

April 30 Wings 95, Indiana<\/a> 80 (preseason)<\/p>\n

May 3 vs. Las Vegas<\/a> (at Austin) (preseason), 6 p.m., Ion<\/p>\n

May 9 at Indiana, noon, ABC<\/p>\n

May 14 vs. Minnesota, 7 p.m., Amazon Prime Video<\/p>\n

TCU Football \u25b6<\/p>\n

Aug. 29 vs. North Carolina (at Dublin), TBA<\/p>\n

Sept. 12 vs. Grambling State, TBA<\/p>\n

Sept. 19 vs. Arkansas State, TBA<\/p>\n

Sept. 26 at Central Florida, TBA<\/p>\n

Oct. 24 vs. West Virginia, TBA<\/p>\n

Nov. 14 vs. Kansas State, TBA<\/p>\n

Nov. 26 at Texas Tech, TBA<\/p>\n

Cowboys \u25b6<\/p>\n

Sept. 27 vs. Baltimore<\/a> (at Rio de Janeiro), 3:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

2026 opponents (dates and times TBA; one home game will be in Rio)<\/p>\n

FC Dallas \u25b6<\/p>\n

April 4 FC Dallas 4, D.C. United 0<\/p>\n

April 18 FC Dallas 2, LA Galaxy 2<\/p>\n

April 22 Minnesota 1, FC Dallas 0<\/p>\n

April 25 Seattle 2, FC Dallas 1<\/p>\n

May 2 at NY Red Bulls, 6:30 p.m., Apple TV<\/p>\n

May 9 vs. Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m., Apple TV<\/p>\n

May 13 vs. Vancouver, 7:30 p.m., Apple TV<\/p>\n

May 16 at San Jose, 9:30 p.m., Apple TV<\/p>\n

Texas Motor Speedway \u25b6<\/p>\n

May 3 NASCAR Cup Series: Wurth 400, 2:30 p.m., FS1<\/p>\n

May 4 NASCAR Racing Experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Valkyries waived rookie former TCU basketball standout Marta Suarez before the start of the WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6550,11718,28977,32457,943,32891,73710,11719,2124,116,118,117,32792,56,10743,9933,29195,32789,102758,11720,32788,6812,9970,15443,102048,94588,853,102757,2001],"class_list":["post-278232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-arizona","tag-atlanta","tag-baltimore","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colorado","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-d-c-united","tag-detroit","tag-fc-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-houston","tag-indiana","tag-las-vegas","tag-marta-suarez","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-n-y-yankees","tag-philadelphia","tag-portland-fire","tag-rangers","tag-san-francisco","tag-seattle-storm","tag-st-louis","tag-tba","tag-tcu","tag-tcu-baseball","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}