2 Seattle Storm players enter WNBA All-Star Skills Challenge

Seattle Storm guards Skylar Diggins and Erica Wheeler make up two-fifths of the entrants in the Skills Challenge.

Jul 15, 2025, 12:42 PM

Skylar Diggins of the Seattle Storm dribbles against Murjanatu Musa of the Phoenix Mercury. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

A pair of Seattle Storm teammates will take part in the Skills Challenge during the WNBA All-Star Game festivities Friday night.

Storm guards Skylar Diggins and Erica Wheeler make up two-fifths of the entrants in the Skills Challenge.

Announcing the participants for the 2025 @Kia WNBA Skills Challenge 🤩

⭐ Natasha Cloud, @nyliberty
⭐ Skylar Diggins, @seattlestorm
⭐ Allisha Gray, @atlantadream
⭐ Erica Wheeler, @seattlestorm
⭐ Courtney Williams, @minnesotalynx pic.twitter.com/HgRB7q9EWk

— WNBA (@WNBA) July 15, 2025

The 34-year-old Diggins, who is set for her seventh career All-Star Game, is averaging 17.9 points, 5.8 assists and 1.1 steals per game this season. Wheeler, also 34, is averaging 11 points, 3.7 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 1.1 steals in her first season with Seattle.

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Allisha Gray, who made history last season winning the 3-point and Skills Challenge, will try and defend her title in both competitions.

The Atlanta Dream star received $110,000 from Aflac as part of a partnership with the WNBPA. The 3-point contest winner this year will get an extra $5,000 from Aflac. Gray also got $2,575 from the league for each of her two victories.

The other players competing in the skills challenge will be New York’s Natasha Cloud and Minnesota’s Courtney Williams.

Caitlin Clark will be in a 3-point contest for the first time in her pro career as the Indiana Fever guard will compete Friday.

She’ll be joined by contest record holder Sabrina Ionescu, who last entered the contest in 2023 and hit 25 of her 27 shots in the final round, scoring 37 points. It was the most shots made in a 3-point contest in either the WNBA or NBA.

The Liberty’s star guard wanted to make sure she was completely healthy before officially entering the contest. She said she’ll be trying to break her own mark.

Clark’s management team said earlier this year when she turned down competing in some fashion at NBA All-Star weekend that the young star wanted her first 3-point contest to be in Indianapolis at the WNBA weekend.

Other participants in the 3-point contest are Washington rookie Sonia Citron and former UW Huskies star Kelsey Plum of the Los Angeles Sparks.

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