{"id":304516,"date":"2025-11-21T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:33:07","slug":"wnba-star-kelsey-mitchell-announces-major-decision-outside-the-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304516\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star Kelsey Mitchell Announces Major Decision Outside the WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">Kelsey Mitchell, part of the \u201cmost resilient\u201d team, played until her \u201cwheels fell off.\u201d She left the court during the Indiana Fever\u2019s semifinal Game 5 against the Las Vegas Aces when her body suddenly felt numb as she pushed her muscles to their maximum potential. That moment made her an inspiration on the court for many, but she isn\u2019t satisfied just yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px;color:#3e3e3e\" class=\"new-heading_headline-text__HmpNk\">Watch What\u2019s Trending Now!<\/p>\n<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">She\u2019s now inspiring young girls off the court, too. Mitchell is currently pursuing her PhD at Liberty University. She announced this major personal milestone during her speech at the Indiana University Girls Leadership Symposium, an event attended by more than a hundred middle school girls eager to learn from one of the W\u2019s brightest stars.<\/p>\n<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">She also explained that her discipline in basketball pushed her to stay committed academically, a path that eventually led her to doctoral studies. \u201cWhen y\u2019all do homework, I\u2019m probably doing homework, too,\u201d she told the audience with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p data-athlete=\"false\" class=\"dom-traversal_domPTag__RMrin\">This is a developing story..<\/p>\n<p>Share this with a friend:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsey Mitchell, part of the \u201cmost resilient\u201d team, played until her \u201cwheels fell off.\u201d She left the court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-304516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}