{"id":722037,"date":"2026-06-23T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:35:17","slug":"sky-waive-saylor-poffenbarger-chicago-sun-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722037\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky waive Saylor Poffenbarger &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/chicago-sky\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sky<\/a> waived Saylor Poffenbarger, the team announced Tuesday. They signed her to a hardship contract on May 27 when rookie Gabriela Jaquez was out with a hyperextended knee and the team had only nine active players on the roster. <\/p>\n<p>Jaquez has recovered and is playing again, but the Sky aren\u2019t fully healthy yet. Courtney Vandersloot is still working to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/chicago-sky\/2026\/06\/16\/this-sky-season-is-an-exercise-in-waiting\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rebuild the muscle deficit in her left knee<\/a> after she tore her ACL last season, but she is practicing again and could be available soon. DiJonai Carrington is still in the individual-workout phase of rehabbing ankle surgery and does not have a specific return timeline. And Rickea Jackson is out for the season with a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>Poffenbarger appeared in five games with the team, but never played more than eight minutes. She went undrafted in 2026 before signing a training camp contract with the Lynx. She played college ball at UConn, Arkansas, and Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sky waived Saylor Poffenbarger, the team announced Tuesday. They signed her to a hardship contract on May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-722037","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\/722037","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=722037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}