On a night dedicated to the past, present and future of the WNBA, the Fever made league history in the third round of Monday night’s draft.
Indiana selected Jackson State star center Ameshya Williams-Holliday with the 25th pick, making her the first draft selection from a historically Black college and university since 2002.
A video shared on social media by WLOX sports reporter Michael Dugan captured the moment Williams-Holliday, surrounded by dozens of supporters at a draft watch party, learned the exciting news.
Williams-Holliday, a three-time first-team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference selection and SWAC Defensive Player of the Year, joins Denique Graves (1997), Karen Wilkins (1998), and 2002 picks Andrea Gardner, Amba Kongolo and Jaclyn Winfield as the only prospects selected from an HBCU in the WNBA’s 25-year existence.