{"id":383207,"date":"2026-07-23T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383207\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:07:13","slug":"wings-jessica-shepard-to-compete-in-wnba-shooting-stars-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383207\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings&#8217; Jessica Shepard to compete in WNBA Shooting Stars Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> announced that their All-Star forward was selected to compete in the WNBA Shooting Stars Contest. The Shooting Stars Contest is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. Friday, along with the WNBA 3-point contest. Both contests will\u00a0take place at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard will team up with three-time WNBA champion Deanna &#8220;Tweety&#8221; Nolan for the Shooting Stars Contest. Shepard and Nolan will represent the Dallas\/Detroit market in the contest, and they will face off with teams from the league&#8217;s Minnesota, Seattle and Washington markets. Nolan played for the Detroit Shock (now the Dallas Wings) from 2001-09, winning WNBA titles in 2003, 2006 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard and Nolan will also team up with a high school player from the Nike Girls EYBL.<\/p>\n<p>The Shooting Stars Contest is a two-round, timed competition. All competing teams have 70 seconds to score as many points as possible from seven shooting locations around the court. The competition features shots ranging from a layup to a long-range 3-pointer, with the two teams posting the highest scores in the opening round advancing to the championship round.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard will also compete in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday night at United Center in Chicago. She will be joined by star guard Paige Bueckers in the matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, the Dallas Wings announced that their All-Star forward was selected to compete in the WNBA Shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,88877,14422],"class_list":["post-383207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-wings","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383207","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=383207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}