{"id":484643,"date":"2026-02-22T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484643\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:24:09","slug":"charlisse-leger-walker-hopes-to-play-in-the-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484643\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlisse Leger-Walker hopes to play in the WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlisse Leger-Walker is back on the court in United States college basketball, following much of last season on the sidelines with a torn ACL. Leger-Walker began her NCAA career with Washington State University, but now a graduate student working towards her masters, she has made the move to UCLA.\u00a0The Tall Fern, and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist had been considered a strong candidate for the 2024 WNBA draft before she withdrew from consideration following her injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now she&#8217;s back playing, I spoke to her on Friday afternoon just before UCLA took on the Washington Huskies.\u00a0She says the WNBA draft is back in her sights this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTFKXV_IMG_8688_jpeg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1574\" alt=\"Charlisse Leger-Walker for UCLA.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlisse Leger-Walker is back on the court in United States college basketball, following much of last season on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[943,3011,3,2294,3010,3008,3009,99,434],"class_list":["post-484643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484643","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=484643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}