{"id":626556,"date":"2026-03-02T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/626556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:32:21","slug":"south-carolinas-staley-says-school-is-working-to-bring-3-former-players-home-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/626556\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina&#8217;s Staley says school is working to bring 3 former players home from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina coach <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dawnstaley\/status\/2027801976423972902\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dawn Staley said on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dawn Staley said on social media<\/a> Saturday that the school is working to try and help a few former players return home from Israel where they are playing professionally.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of former Gamecocks \u2014 Tiffany Mitchell, Destiny Littleton and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan \u2014 as well as other former WNBA players are playing basketball in Israel, which along with the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-us-explosion-tehran-c2f11247d8a66e36929266f2c557a54c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:launched an attack;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">launched an attack<\/a> on Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease pray for our @GamecockWBB @TiffMitch25 @2121Mikiah @dstnylttltn24 who are in a war zone in Israel,\u201d Staley wrote. &#8220;We are working a plan to get home. Let us pray for our loved ones to return home safely asap! Thank you in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell played last season in Seattle, while Harrigan was on the Phoenix Mercury. Other players in the Israeli league with WNBA ties include Victoria Vivians, Christyn Williams, Shyanne Sellers, Arella Guirantes and Evina Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 12:48 am and I\u2019m going to attempt to get some sleep,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dstnylttltn24\/status\/2027878698263667014?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Littleton tweeted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Littleton tweeted<\/a>. \u201cPrayers for safety for everyone impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said on social media Saturday that the school is working to try and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":626557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[103873,24113,267662,99,267661,1502,2086,345,3036,62,267660,67,132,68,232,72202],"class_list":{"0":"post-626556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-christyn-williams","9":"tag-dawn-staley","10":"tag-destiny-littleton","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-mikiah-herbert-harrigan","13":"tag-phoenix-mercury","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-social-media","16":"tag-south-carolina","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tiffany-mitchell","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wnba","23":"tag-wnba-players"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116158893545670578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626556","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=626556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}