Academic journeys across the W
Nine current players, nine different paths through higher education.
Kelsey Mitchell
Mitchell is pursuing a Ph.D. in educational leadership at Liberty University while producing one of the most prolific scoring stretches in WNBA history. In August 2026, she broke the league record for consecutive 20-point games and continued extending it. Teammate Caitlin Clark has described Mitchell working on papers on her laptop roughly 90 minutes before tipoff, then going out and scoring 30.
A’ja Wilson
Wilson studied mass communications during her four-year career at the University of South Carolina.
Aliyah Boston
Boston graduated magna cum laude from South Carolina in May 2023 with a degree in mass communications after earning national Academic All-America honors.
Nneka Ogwumike
Ogwumike completed her decorated Stanford basketball career as a psychology major.
Karlie Samuelson
Samuelson earned a human biology degree from Stanford in 2017 and later returned to the program as an intern while rehabilitating an injury.
Caitlin Clark
Iowa’s 2024 Academic All-Big Ten list identified Clark as a senior marketing major in the Tippie College of Business.
Sabrina Ionescu
Ionescu completed a master’s degree in advertising and brand responsibility after returning to Oregon for the 2019–20 season.
Napheesa Collier
UConn’s program notes listed Collier’s major as human development and family studies during her Huskies career.
Satou Sabally
Oregon’s 2020 graduates list records Sabally’s degree in general social science with a crime, law and society focus and a legal studies minor.