{"id":891002,"date":"2026-10-22T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/891002\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:38:10","slug":"azzi-fudd-to-appear-in-sis-swimsuit-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/891002\/","title":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd to appear in SI&#8217;s swimsuit issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azzi_Fudd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azzi Fudd<\/a> is used to wowing people on the court. This offseason, she\u2019ll be turning heads off of it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Fudd is posing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/swimsuit.si.com\/swimnews\/2027-si-swimsuit-roster-reveal-spain?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue<\/a>, the publication announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/tag\/uconn-womens-basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UConn women\u2019s basketball<\/a> star will be one of 11 women in the issue, a group that includes mostly professional models as well as pro golfer Charley Hull. The women are currently shooting in Mallorca and Ibiza, Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/swimsuit.si.com\/swimnews\/2027-si-swimsuit-roster-reveal-spain?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the SI website<\/a>, and the issue will come out in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Fudd isn\u2019t the first former Husky to appear in the issue, as Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart both appeared in 2022, and Napheesa Collier was in the 2026 edition.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old had an up-and-down rookie year in the WNBA after being chosen with the No. 1 pick in the draft. She played in 30 games and averaged 13.1 points, but was shut down and underwent arthroscopic surgery on her right knee after battling ongoing soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Fudd is expected to return to the court next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd is used to wowing people on the court. This offseason, she\u2019ll be turning heads off of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[16393,373476,373474,373475,373473,2000,15861,87159,2834,15862,983,168221,99,15857,373477,434],"class_list":["post-891002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-azzi-fudd","tag-azzi-fudd-si-swimsuit","tag-azzi-fudd-sports-illustrated","tag-azzi-fudd-sports-illustrated-swimsuit","tag-azzi-fudd-swimsuit","tag-connecticut","tag-ct-news","tag-ct-sports","tag-dallas-wings","tag-hartford-courant","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-sports","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-wnba","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891002","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=891002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}