2025 WNBA Draft: See all the Seattle Storm and local picks
Apr 14, 2025, 8:04 PM | Updated: Apr 15, 2025, 9:38 am
The 2025 WNBA Draft was certainly an eventful one for basketball fans in Washington state.
Not only did the Seattle Storm have the No. 2 overall pick, but they had three more selections in the third round – the first of which saw them take the sibling of a Seattle Seahawks player.
What makes top Seattle Storm draft pick so interesting
There was also a local product taken in each of the first and second rounds by other teams, as well as a star from a college in Washington who had her name called in the third.
Here’s a look at all of the Storm picks and players with Washington state ties to be drafted Monday in New York.
First round
• No. 2 overall, Seattle Storm: Dominique Malonga, C, France
With UConn star Paige Bueckers off the board to Dallas and Notre Dame guard Olivia Miles deciding to transfer to TCU rather than enter the draft, a Storm team in need of guard help had to settle for a 6-foot-6 center who can dunk and draws comparisons to Victor Wembamyama.
OK, that doesn’t sound bad at all.
Malonga can handle the ball and shoot from outside, and now joins a stacked Storm frontcourt that includes former MVP Nneka Ogwumike, defensive standout Ezi Magbegor, and 6-foot-7 newcomer Li Yueru.
She dunked at 16. Still dominating at 19. 💪
Dominique Malonga was the youngest player on France’s 2024 Olympic team that won silver in Paris. She’s played professionally with Lyon ASVEL in France’s top league and continues to rise as one of Europe’s most exciting young… pic.twitter.com/DJi4IhYyuH
— WNBA (@WNBA) April 11, 2025
For more on Malonga, click the link below.
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• No. 11 overall, Chicago Sky: Hailey Van Lith, PG, TCU
The former Cashmere High School star is known as “Miss March,” having gone to the Elite Eight in each of her five college seasons – three with Louisville, and one apiece with LSU and TCU. Now she’ll get to learn the WNBA ropes from veteran Sky point guard Courtney Vandersloot, a five-time All-Star and fellow Washington native who starred at Kentwood High School and Gonzaga.
Van Lith, 23, averaged 17.9 points, 5.4 assists, 4.6 rebounds and 1.2 steals in 2024-25 to win Big 12 Player of the Year, and she won a bronze medal with the United States in 3-on-3 basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
For more on Van Lith, click the link below.
More: Hailey Van Lith taken in first round of WNBA Draft
Second round
• No. 24 overall, Minnesota Lynx: Dalayah Daniels, PF, UW Huskies
The 6-4 Daniels is a Seattle native who initially went to Cal for two seasons after graduating from Garfield High School, but she returned to her hometown to play her final three college seasons with the Huskies. She ranks third in Washington program history with 109 career blocks, and averaged 12.8 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals in 33 games as a senior in 2024-25. Daniels also shot a career-best 57.5% from the field in her final season with the Huskies.
“From the day she came home to Washington, she brought a relentless work ethic and commitment to growing as a person, athlete, teammate, and leader,” UW Huskies women’s basketball coach Tina Langley said of Daniels in a press release. “The Minnesota Lynx are getting an exceptional basketball player and an even more remarkable young woman. Dalayah means so much to this program, to the University of Washington, and especially to the Seattle community that raised her.”
DALAYAH DANIELS BLOCK 👑 #NCAAWBB x 🎥 Pac-12 Network / @UW_WBB
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessWBB) February 10, 2024
Third round
• No. 26 overall, Seattle Storm: Serena Sundell, PG, Kansas State
The Storm, who traded perennial All-Star Jewell Loyd in a blockbuster earlier this offseason, did get the guard help they needed later in the draft by selected the nation’s leader in assists.
The assist queen 👑
Serena Sundell led all Division I players with 262 total AST and 7.3 AST per game in 2025. She was a 2x All-Big 12 First Team pick and finished her Kansas State career as an AP All-America Honorable Mention. Sundell also averaged a career-best 14.1 PTS per… pic.twitter.com/7sCnt1rDQc
— WNBA (@WNBA) April 11, 2025
The 6-2 Sundell won’t be the only pro athlete in her family. In fact, she won’t be the only pro athlete in her family in Seattle. Her brother Jalen Sundell is a center for the Seahawks.
For more on Serena Sundell, click the link below.
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• No. 29 overall, Seattle Storm: Madison Conner, SG, TCU
While things didn’t line up for the Storm to bring Van Lith back to the Pacific Northwest, they were able to get her sharpshooting teammate from TCU.
Conner made the most 3-pointers in the nation in 2024-25, making 128 with a very strong 44.9% clip. The 5-foot-11 guard averaged 14.4 points, 4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 0.9 steals per game as a senior. Conner played the past two seasons at TCU after spending her first three with Arizona.
Madison Conner from WAAAAAY downtown 😱 pic.twitter.com/7X87RlsJaR
— TCU Women’s Basketball (@tcuwbb) January 23, 2025
• No. 33 overall, Indiana Fever: Yvonne Ejim, PF, Gonzaga
The 6-foot-1 Ejim will look to crack the lineup alongside superstar Caitlin Clark in Indiana.
In five seasons at Gonzaga, the Calgary native averaged 14.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 0.9 blocks per game. She ended her college career with a career-best 20.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in 2024-25.
A two-time WCC Player of the Year and WCC Defensive Player of the Year, Ejim also played for Canada in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
set program records for most points in a single season and most games played during her college career at Gonzaga.
with the 33rd pick in the 2025 @WNBA Draft, we’ve selected Yvonne Ejim. pic.twitter.com/ErY7qRyATN
— Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) April 15, 2025
• No. 34 overall, Seattle Storm: Jordan Hobbs, PG, Michigan
With their last pick in the draft, the Storm went with a second tall point guard in the 6-3 Hobbs.
Hobbs spent her entire four-year college career at Michigan, and in 2024-25 averaged double-digit points for the first time at 13.6. She also put in 4.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 0.7 blocks per game as a senior.
Jordan Hobbs makes moves to the bucket too! 😏 @j_hobbss x @umichwbball pic.twitter.com/GSDcncq8nJ
— FOX College Hoops (@CBBonFOX) December 30, 2023
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