91-76 win over New York<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n\u201cI think Jess is one of the most versatile posts in the game,\u201d All-Star guard Arike Ogunbowale said of Shepard after the win over the Liberty. \u201c… She\u2019s really a glue piece for this team that helps everything come together.\u201d<\/p>\n
She ranks third in the league in rebounds, seventh in assists and is shooting 55.7% from the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in a lot of systems,\u201d Shepard said after practice on SMU\u2019s campus Tuesday. \u201cEvery six months, I\u2019m playing with a different team. So you just find a way to adapt yourself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m someone who likes to win, so [I\u2019m] just doing whatever the team needs each game to win. And I know that\u2019s different in every game.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Shepard has no issue adjusting to a new system, the Wings did provide some level of familiarity.<\/p>\n
Shepard played alongside Ogunbowale at Notre Dame, where they made back-to-back trips to the national championship and won the NCAA title in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been great. Obviously the success we were able to have together at Notre Dame and being together at the professional level has been a lot of fun and it\u2019s like we just picked up where we left off,\u201d Shepard said.<\/p>\n
Shepard, drafted by the Lynx 16th overall in 2019, averaged 8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists over 40 games with Minnesota in 2025. Playing behind Napheesa Collier, a frontrunner in the 2025 MVP race, Shepard shot a WNBA-best 63.8% from the floor.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s spent recent offseasons playing overseas in Italy and Greece, where she has been a No. 1 option on her teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy role has been different in every system I\u2019ve played in,\u201d Shepard said. \u201cWhen I go [play] over in Europe, I\u2019m more of like the go-to player. When I\u2019ve been in the [WNBA], I\u2019ve been someone who needs to come in and steadily do your job.\u201d<\/p>\n
She’s been a starter for the Wings this year and has helped Dallas climb the WNBA ranks after finishing at the bottom of the league in 2025. The club ranks fourth in the Western Conference and sixth overall in the 15-team league while averaging 88 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Wings, now 4\u20133 and entering a contest against A\u2019ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,94507,14422],"class_list":["post-309926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-wnba","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309926","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=309926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}