Former UConn level guard Nika Mühl has signed a multi-year take care of Below Armour, the corporate introduced on Wednesday. The partnership will embrace serving as an envoy for the model on and off the courtroom and competing in Below Armour and Curry Model basketball sneakers this upcoming WNBA season, the official press release reads. As a part of the partnership, Mühl has her personal UA Courtside Assortment dropping on April tenth.
Mühl is getting into her second season with the Seattle Storm, after being chosen 14th total within the 2024 WNBA Draft after a standout profession on the College of Connecticut. Muhl appeared in 16 video games and averaged 3.6 minutes an evening in her rookie season. At UConn, she averaged 6.9 factors and 6.5 assists per recreation, whereas establishing herself as one of many nation’s prime guard defenders. She is UConn’s all-time assists chief and gained the BIG EAST Defensive Participant of the Yr award in 2023 and 2024.
Mühl tore her ACL taking part in abroad this offseason, and had surgical procedure to restore it in November.
Mühl joins Marina Mabrey, Kelsey Plum as an Underarmour Athlete
Mühl isn’t the primary WNBA participant to signal with Below Armour; Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum and Connecticut Solar guard Marina Mabrey are additionally each at present on the roster. Below Armour has additionally been the official and unique uniform partner of Unrivaled, the brand new skilled ladies’s basketball 3-on-3 league happening in Miami this offseason.
“Having Below Armour accomplice with Unmatched is simply wonderful,” Mabrey mentioned. “It exhibits that Below Armour is critical about investing in ladies’s basketball, and it’ll give the model extra publicity with WNBA and prime athletes in addition to their followers, permitting them to showcase every part they’ve to supply.”
Below Armour shared that Mühl first obtained uncovered to the model at Kelsey Plum’s Dawg Class, a camp created collectively by Plum along with Below Armour for elite feminine faculty guards trying to make it to the skilled stage.
“The workforce behind the Below Armour model is unbelievable. They’re so progressive, artistic and simply relentless at what they do, and I align with that a lot,” Mühl mentioned in an announcement. “Having grown up watching their athletes, I’ve seen how they actually spend money on them, letting them have their very own imaginative and prescient but in addition serving to them to develop and help their work.”
“It’s a lot extra than simply the brand, it’s a whole neighborhood that shares the identical values I do. I wished to be part of it, and fortunately, I’m now and I’m very excited to collaborate with them on new concepts and use with our collective platforms to have an effect past basketball.”
A slew of different WNBA athletes even have offers with shoe and attire firms; A’ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark, Jewell Loyd and Sabrina Ionescu with Nike, Nneka Ogwumike with Adidas, and Lexie Brown with Reebok, amongst many others. The rise in these kinds of offers displays the expansion and elevated recognition of girls’s basketball.
