{"id":260730,"date":"2025-09-28T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:28:19","slug":"michigan-state-womens-basketball-names-two-seniors-as-captains-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260730\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State women&#8217;s basketball names two seniors as captains for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan State women&#8217;s basketball is gearing up for the beginning of the 2025-26 season, the third of the Robyn Fralick era in East Lansing. The Spartans have made the tournament, and improved year over year during the first two seasons under Fralick.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to see another step in improvement, elevating to an NCAA Tournament second weekend, and a run at a Big Ten championship, the Spartans are looking to their veteran leadership to lead the way. Well, the first step in determining the true leaders of this team has been made.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State has named their captains for the upcoming season, naming seniors Abbey Kimball and Grace VanSlooten as captains for this team.<\/p>\n<p>VanSlooten is entering her second season with the program, after transferring from Oregon. In 2024-25, she played in 31 games, starting 23, while being first on the team in scoring, averaging 15.5 points and adding 7.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Kimball is a four year player with the program as a guard, averaging 5.3 points per game over her career.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespartanswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The SpartansWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The SpartansWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpartansWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook\u00a0;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Cory Linsner on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cory_Linsner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@Cory_Linsner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@Cory_Linsner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Spartans Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/spartans\/womens-basketball\/2025\/09\/27\/two-seniors-named-as-captains-for-michigan-state-womens-basketball\/86399209007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Two seniors named as captains for Michigan State women&#039;s basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Two seniors named as captains for Michigan State women&#8217;s basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan State women&#8217;s basketball is gearing up for the beginning of the 2025-26 season, the third of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,136559,20592,1317,1337,1338,212,136558,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-260730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grace-vanslooten","10":"tag-michigan-state","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-oregon","15":"tag-robyn-fralick","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115280747189940646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}