UConn legend Breanna Stewart signing with Liberty

Former UConn star Breanna Stewart introduced on Wednesday afternoon that she’s signing with the Liberty.

It was just lately reported that Stewart, 28, had narrowed her potential free company locations to the Liberty and her former workforce, the Seattle Storm, however the two-time WNBA champion is formally headed to New York.

Stewart is without doubt one of the most extremely adorned gamers in ladies’s basketball historical past, successful 4 NCAA championships with the Huskies to associate with two Olympic gold medals and three World Cup gold medals.

A two-time WNBA Finals MVP, four-time All-Star and the 2018 league MVP, Stewart joins an already-loaded Liberty roster, becoming a member of 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones (acquired in a January three-team commerce), and rising celebrity Sabrina Ionescu, who took to Twitter to react to Stewart’s announcement.

The 6-foot-4 ahead has profession averages of 20.3 factors, 8.6 rebounds, and a couple of.9 assists whereas taking pictures 36.8 p.c from three-point vary.

The Liberty’s 2023 season begins on Could 19, once they hit the highway to tackle the Washington Mystics.