Kingston’s Aaliyah Edwards reflects on a whirlwind rookie WNBA season, overcoming challenges, embracing change, and preparing for a breakout year in 2025.
It’s been said that the only constant in life is change. That couldn’t be more true than for Kingston, Ont.’s Aaliyah Edwards . With her rookie season in the books, Edwards says the last year has been a ‘rollercoaster’.
She says it was to be expected as a rookie, pointing to a similar situation during her freshman year at Connecticut.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. She says the biggest change was going from playing against 18- to 21-year-olds to playing against grown women.
“We were literally right there,” she said. “That was a huge difficult moment for me. Just because I’m coming from UConn, I’m coming from a great program where we hold ourselves to a standard, and that standard is winning.”Throughout her rookie season, Edwards faced more change as some teammates were traded or released, and at the season’s end, the Mystics parted ways with both their head coach and general manager.
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