{"id":832527,"date":"2026-09-01T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/832527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:02:18","slug":"history-made-shyanne-sellers-becomes-first-waves-player-to-head-to-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/832527\/","title":{"rendered":"History made: Shyanne Sellers becomes first Waves player to head to WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville Waves guard Shyanne Sellers is headed to the Los Angeles Sparks as a developmental player. (Jacksonville Waves,  Jacksonville Waves)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The WNBA came calling for Jacksonville Waves player Shyanne Sellers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Two days after the Waves\u2019 season ended with a five-point loss in the inaugural Upshot League championship game, Sellers became the first Jacksonville player to land with a WNBA team. The guard is headed to the Los Angeles Sparks as a developmental player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Sellers is the fourth player in the Upshot\u2019s brief history to make the jump from the upstart league to the W. Michelle Onyiah (Indiana Fever), Christyn Williams (Dallas Wings), and Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda (Los Angeles Sparks) have also moved on from Upshot to the W. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Sellers averaged 13.3 points and 4.2 rebounds a game for the Waves. She averaged 30.7 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorJustin Barney headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/YZYINYEDP5DTPJQ7HZSUC3AOWM\/\" title=\"View Justin Barney&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barney<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Justin Barney joined News4Jax in February 2019, but he\u2019s been covering sports on the First Coast for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Waves guard Shyanne Sellers is headed to the Los Angeles Sparks as a developmental player. (Jacksonville Waves,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[352543,99,171849,36845,434],"class_list":["post-832527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-jacksonville-waves","tag-sports","tag-sports4jax","tag-waves","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832527","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=832527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}