{"id":267368,"date":"2025-09-30T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:31:11","slug":"valkyries-rookie-janelle-salaun-earns-all-rookie-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267368\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyries rookie Janelle Sala\u00fcn earns All-Rookie honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Golden State Valkyries had a historic first season in the WNBA in many ways, between making the playoffs and taking home multiple end-of-season awards. In addition to 4th-year guard Veronica Burton\u2019s MIP win and head coach Natalie Nakase\u2019s Coach of the Year win, rookie forward Janelle Sala\u00fcn has taken home All-Rookie honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sala\u00fcn, a 24-year-old forward from France, averaged 11.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in her rookie season in the WNBA, landing her on the WNBA All-Rookie team. Unlike most WNBA players who complete four years in college before entering the WNBA, Sala\u00fcn has been a pro since the age of 18, playing overseas for Flammes Carolo and Villenueve-d\u2019Ascq in France and Familia Schio in Italy. During the upcoming WNBA offseason, she will be returning to Italy to play for PSK Praha. This extra professional experience will give Sala\u00fcn and the Valkyries a boost next year, as she will be one of the most experienced sophomores in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The other four players named on the 2025 WNBA All-Rookie team are Paige Bueckers of the Dallas Wings, Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen of the Washington Mystics, and Dominique Malonga of the Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Valkyries had a historic first season in the WNBA in many ways, between making the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2473,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-267368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115295150794308313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267368","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=267368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}