{"id":626312,"date":"2026-05-06T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626312\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:14:08","slug":"wnbas-toronto-tempo-sign-yvonne-ejim-to-training-camp-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626312\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA\u2019s Toronto Tempo Sign Yvonne Ejim to Training Camp Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gonzaga Bulldogs great and two-time West Coast Conference Player of the Year, 6-0 forward Yvonne Ejim, has a chance to make her home country\u2019s WNBA team Toronto Tempo\u2019s inaugural roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Calgary, Alberta, Canada, native last played with IDK Euskotren in San Sebastian, Spain, averaging 9.8 points on a shooting split of 50.3 percent on two-pointers\/37.8 percent on three-pointers\/75.0 percent from the free throw line and 5.9 rebounds over 27 games across the Liga Femenina Endesa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gonzaga\u2019s all-time leading scorer (men\u2019s or women\u2019s) was originally selected by the Indiana Fever with the No. 33 overall pick in the third round of the 2025 WNBA Draft, but was waived before the 2025 season began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Toronto now has 16 players under contract. For the regular season, each WNBA team is allowed to carry only 12 players on its roster with two developmental slots. The Tempo will have to cut down its roster before they open their inaugural season against the Washington Mystics at the Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area&#8230; Follow him on X @a_cravalho<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slipperstillfits.com\/general\/27968\/gonzagas-2027-recruiting-targets-on-adidas-3ssb-circuit#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gonzaga Bulldogs great and two-time West Coast Conference Player of the Year, 6-0 forward Yvonne Ejim, has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3,99,434],"class_list":["post-626312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626312","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=626312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}