On the day before this summer’s WNBA All-Star Game, Jackie Young found a seat at a dais and for four minutes didn’t say anything. Positioned to her left were guards Skylar Diggins-Smith and Arike Ogunbowale, the trio grouped together for a joint press conference with reporters across the street from Chicago’s Wintrust Arena. As journalists started to ask questions, Young didn’t speak up.
“You gotta say a word, Jackie, up here,” Mercury guard Diggins-Smith said to Young, who had let the first three queries pass her by. “You gotta say something.”
Young, 24, admits she is shy by nature.