Yup!

That's obviously at the pointy end of the game, not at the Pele/Morgan level of things, but still.

Some salary-related blurbs from around the 'tubes:

[...] elite WNBA players can make about 15 times more from their overseas teams than they do from their WNBA teams. Diana Taurasi, for example, makes $1.5 million from her Russian team, enough that she infamously chose to skip the 2015 season after she was asked to do so by the team, UMMC Ekaterinburg.

[...] WNBA players in general make at least three times more from their foreign teams than their average WNBA salary.

[Griner] was the first overall pick in the 2013 WNBA draft, but as a rookie, could only make $49,440 per the WNBA's tight-pursed salary rules.

At the end of her first season, she played for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and earned $600,000 for a four-month season — or more than a dozen times her maximum WNBA salary.

Dallas also got three new players in a trade, so they had a pretty full roster.

Wow, the Wings waived Gustafson, too.

Waived yesterday, per Wings twitter. Dang. :(

Well, finish up her classwork and check out the Euro scene?

Wings are putting up daily recaps of their training camp on Twitter and their website.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2019/5/6/uc-davis-welcomes-tracy-hamm-as-womens-soccer-head-coach.aspx

New coach: Tracy Hamm (no relation to Mia). Cal alumna, most recently coached at SFSU.

With the big * of "if he is on the team," obviously.

I just copied the URL from the address bar in my browser and pasted it. :)

https://www.swishappeal.com/wnba/2019/4/11/18305909/wnba-draft-analysis-dallas-wings-arike-ogunbowale

"2019 WNBA Draft Analysis: Dallas Wings sneak away with big win"

And yeah, I had read about her looking to play overseas, but figured that the Power 5 were going to have the draft pretty well locked up. Sounds like Coach Gross worked the phones a little bit on her behalf. :up:

First WNBA pre-season game is less than a month away (5/9); first Wings pre-season game is the 13th. Regular season opens on 5/24.

Pretty compressed timeframe for the teams to get their draftees in camp and a roster figured out! Morgan's going to really be juggling her schoolwork and basketball now...wow. At least the Wings don't have a game on the same day as CoE commencments. Ha.

https://wings.wnba.com/news/dallas-wings-select-ogunbowale-gustafson-burke-and-bertsch-in-2019-wnba-draft/

“Morgan Bertsch was a top five scorer in the NCAA this season,” Bibb [Wings President and CEO] stated. “She is a four-player with tremendous offensive skill and excellent range. Her length and size will translate well in the WNBA and I’m eager to see her compete in camp.”