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2025 WNBA Season Tips Off With Four Blue Devils on Opening Day Rosters
5/16/2025 12:31:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DURHAM, N.C. – The 29th season of WNBA Basketball tips off Friday, May 16, with the Duke women's basketball program featuring four former standouts – Lexie Brown (Seattle Storm), Chelsea Gray (Las Vegas Aces), Haley Peters (Connecticut Sun) and Elizabeth Williams (Chicago Sky) – on opening-rosters for the 2025 WNBA season.
The trio of Brown, Gray and Williams is slated to open their respective seasons Saturday, May 17, starting with Gray and the Aces squaring off against the defending WNBA Champions in the New York Liberty (1 p.m., ABC). Williams and the Sky match up against the Indiana Fever (3 p.m., ABC) in their first game of the year while Brown and the Storm battle the Phoenix Mercury (10 p.m.) to round out the day. Peters and the Sun begin their season Sunday, May 18 at 1 p.m., against the Washington Mystics.
Brown enters her first season with the Storm, and eighth overall in the WNBA, after being traded from the Sparks during the summer. The Suwanee, Ga., product put up 8.1 points, 3.3 assists and 2.3 rebounds in 16 games (eight starts) this past season, before being forced to sit out the remainder of the season due to Crohn's disease.
A five-time WNBA All-Star, three-time WNBA Champion and 2022 WNBA Finals MVP, Gray begins her 11th season in the league and fifth with the Aces. She played in 27 games with 25 starts and averaged 8.6 points, 4.9 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.
Peters makes her return to the WNBA after most recently playing for the Villeneuve d'Ascq club in France - LBWL Playdowns, where she posted 13.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 steals. The Red Bank, N.J., native has three years of previous WNBA experience, most recently playing for the Atlanta Dream in 2019.
Williams tips off year 11 in the WNBA with the 2025 campaign marking her third season with the Sky. She played and started the first nine games for Chicago putting up 10.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.7 blocks per game, before having to sit out the remainder of the season following a right knee injury in June.
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to the YouTube channel by searching "DukeWBB."
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The trio of Brown, Gray and Williams is slated to open their respective seasons Saturday, May 17, starting with Gray and the Aces squaring off against the defending WNBA Champions in the New York Liberty (1 p.m., ABC). Williams and the Sky match up against the Indiana Fever (3 p.m., ABC) in their first game of the year while Brown and the Storm battle the Phoenix Mercury (10 p.m.) to round out the day. Peters and the Sun begin their season Sunday, May 18 at 1 p.m., against the Washington Mystics.
Brown enters her first season with the Storm, and eighth overall in the WNBA, after being traded from the Sparks during the summer. The Suwanee, Ga., product put up 8.1 points, 3.3 assists and 2.3 rebounds in 16 games (eight starts) this past season, before being forced to sit out the remainder of the season due to Crohn's disease.
A five-time WNBA All-Star, three-time WNBA Champion and 2022 WNBA Finals MVP, Gray begins her 11th season in the league and fifth with the Aces. She played in 27 games with 25 starts and averaged 8.6 points, 4.9 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.
Peters makes her return to the WNBA after most recently playing for the Villeneuve d'Ascq club in France - LBWL Playdowns, where she posted 13.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 steals. The Red Bank, N.J., native has three years of previous WNBA experience, most recently playing for the Atlanta Dream in 2019.
Williams tips off year 11 in the WNBA with the 2025 campaign marking her third season with the Sky. She played and started the first nine games for Chicago putting up 10.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.7 blocks per game, before having to sit out the remainder of the season following a right knee injury in June.
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to the YouTube channel by searching "DukeWBB."
#GoDuke
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