{"id":586657,"date":"2026-04-15T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:37:08","slug":"former-gruver-standout-becomes-first-texas-panhandle-native-signed-by-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586657\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gruver standout becomes first Texas Panhandle native signed by WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, California \u2014 Former Gruver LadyHound Bailey Maupin signed a training camp contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/valkyries.wnba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maupin is the first Texas Panhandle-native signed by the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so excited to be able to add Bailey &#8230; to our training camp roster,\u201d said Golden State Valkyries General Manager Ohemaa Nyanin.<\/p>\n<p>Maupin led Gruver to a pair of Texas 2A state championships in 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Maupin and the Lady Raiders beat Villanova 57-52 for their first NCAA tournament win since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Maupin is coming off a 2026 season in which she was named <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/news\/2026\/4\/2\/womens-basketball-maupin-named-a-wbca-all-america-honorable-mention-selection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All-American Honorable Mention by the Women\u2019s Basketball Coaches Association <\/a>and All-Big 12 First Team for Texas Tech. The 5-10 guard led the Red Raiders with 15.2 points per game and 69 made threes while adding 3.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and a 40.4 field goal percentage. Maupin began her collegiate career being named to the Big-12 All-Freshman Team in 2023 after recording 17 games in double figures and ranking second on the team with 10.2 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, California \u2014 Former Gruver LadyHound Bailey Maupin signed a training camp contract with the Golden State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-586657","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\/586657","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=586657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}