Washington Mystics players Ariel Atkins and Tina Charles are headed to Tokyo this summer. In an exclusive Monday morning interview on NBC’s TODAY show, USA Basketball women’s national team head coach Dawn Staley and long-time guards Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird revealed the members of the 2020 Olympic team.
As you might expect, Taurasi and Bird are on the team. But the bigger story for the Washington Mystics is that Tina Charles and Ariel Atkins have both made the team! This is the first time that any Mystics player has made the team since 2000 when Chamique Holdsclaw and Nikki McCray made the roster.