WNBA’s Kelsey Plum to Have Washington WCBB Jersey Retired; 1st in Program Historical past

The College of Washington announced that it’ll retire Kelsey Plum’s No. 10 jersey throughout a ceremony on Jan. 18, when the Huskies girls’s basketball workforce hosts Purdue.

Plum, now a member of the Las Vegas Aces, would be the first Washington girls’s basketball participant to have her quantity retired.

The jersey retirement can be a part of a “Forever 10 celebration” honoring Plum’s legacy and impression on Husky sports activities. As well as, she’ll be honored and acknowledged between the primary and second quarter of Washington’s Homecoming soccer sport towards USC on Saturday.

Plum, who performed for Washington from 2013-2017, grew to become the NCAA’s all-time scoring chief with 3,527 factors. For her profession, Plum averaged 25.4 factors per sport, together with 31.7 PPG throughout her 2016-17 senior 12 months. She broke the single-season NCAA scoring report that season as nicely (1,109 factors). Plum earned first-team All-America honors and swept all the key Participant of the Yr awards as nicely within the 2016-17 marketing campaign.

Her single-season and profession scoring data stood till 2023-24, when Iowa’s Caitlin Clark broke each.

Plum’s collegiate accolades additionally embrace a 57-point game towards Utah on Feb. 25, 2017, when she broke the NCAA all-time scoring report. The 12 months earlier than, Plum additionally led Washington to its first-ever Last 4 look.

Plum, the No. 1 total decide within the 2017 WNBA draft, has shined in her skilled profession. She received the WNBA championship twice with the Aces and earned two Olympic gold medals with Staff USA in 2021 (3×3) and 2024 (5×5).