Connecticut Sun select UConn women’s basketball center Serah Williams with No. 33 pick in WNBA Draft
NEW YORK — After playing a single season with the UConn women’s basketball team, center Serah Williams isn’t leaving Connecticut just yet. Williams was selected with the No. 33 overall pick in the third round ofthe 2026 WNBA Draft by the Connecticut Sun on Monday night.
She became the 52nd player in UConn history drafted to the WNBA and the third Husky selected by the Sun, joining Tina Charles in 2010 and Morgan Tuck in 2016. Tuck is now Connecticut’s general manager. Williams attended the draft in person at The Shed in Manhattan to support Huskies teammate Azzi Fudd, who went No.
1 overall to the Dallas Wings , but the 6-foot-4 center got to have her own moment in the spotlight when she was drafted out of the audience surrounded by UConn’s entire 2025-26 roster. UConn has had at least two players picked in every draft since 2021. Williams played the first three years of her college career at Wisconsin before transferring to the Huskies for 2025-26.
She was two-time first team All-Big Ten selection with the Badgers and was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 2024. UConn star Azzi Fudd picked No. 1 in WNBA Draft, reunites with Paige Bueckers on Dallas Wings Williams had a challenging transition to UConn playing a system that was dramatically different from the one she was used to at Wisconsin.
She went from averaging 15. 1 field goal attempts in 32 minutes per game to 4. 8 shots in 17.