Washington Mystics announced today that they signed former Chicago Sky small forward and UCLA assistant coach, Michaela Onyenwere, to a multi-year deal. <\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 On April 5, Michaela Onyenwere celebrated with UCLA after helping the women’s basketball team capture their first ever NCAA Women’s Championship. On April 12, she’s putting pen to paper and signing with the Washington Mystics on a multi-year deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Washington Mystics announced Sunday, April 12, that they are signing Onyenwere to a multi-year deal. The details of the contract have not been released according to team policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Onyenwere has career averages of 6.9 points and 2.4 rebounds in 182 games and just 97 starts over five seasons with the Chicago Sky (2024-25), Phoenix Mercury (2023), and New York Liberty (2021-22).\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was a former WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2021 and WNBA All-Rookie Team honors after being drafted sixth overall by the New York Liberty. She spent last season with the Chicago Sky averaging 5.8 points, 1.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 16.9 minutes in 42 games with 22 starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Onyenwere shot a career-high .422 from the field and .843 from the charity stripe, while her .353 three-point percentage marked her second consecutive season shooting .350 or better from beyond the arc. She reached double figures in 10 games, recorded 14 multi-assists games, and shot .500 or better from the field in 18 contests.<\/p>\n
On September 16, 2025, the UCLA Bruins announced Onyenwere would join the staff as an assistant coach. The Aurora, Colo., native is also an alumni of the team and university.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Onyenwere left UCLA as the program’s fourth-leading scorer, totaling 1,888-career points, and she ranked eighth all-time in rebounds (885) for the Bruins. The forward was named AP Third Team All-American her junior and senior year, marking the first two-time AP All-American in program history. Onyenwere was also a three-time All-Pac-12 selection and made the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team in 2018.<\/p>\n
UCLA held a 92-32 record over her four years with the Bruins.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to UCLA, while she was as student Onyenwere and five teammates started “More Than a D.R.E.A.M.” initiative to help use their platform to educate others on racial injustice, issues that Black people in America face, and Black culture. The acronym, which stands for Diversify, Reveal, Educate, Advocate and Motivate, captures the initiative’s goal of promoting awareness on these racial issues and empowering diverse identities and cultures. Onyenwere and the “More Than a D.R.E.A.M.” committee also hosted conversations about race with prominent figures and notable alumni called “Bruin Table Talk” where Baron Davis, Earl Watson and Dawn Staley made an appearance on the YouTube talk show.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Mystics announced today that they signed former Chicago Sky small forward and UCLA assistant coach, Michaela Onyenwere,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-580980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580980","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=580980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}