YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: THIS IS NOW A SEATTLE STORM BLOG.
As confirmed by ESPN’s Alexa Philippou, former Marquette Golden Eagles guard Natisha Hiedmean will be signing a two year free agent contract with the Seattle Storm. The deal ends her two year run in Minnesota and will keep her in the WNBA for an eighth and ninth season.
Hiedman averaged a career best 9.1 points per game last season for the Lynx while coming off the bench for 18.9 minutes per game for the WNBA’s best regular season team. She also added 1.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game while getting back to a quality number behind the three-point line. Hiedeman was well off of her career average in 2024, connecting on just 28% of her three-point attempts, but she was back up to 37.1% on 2.8 attempts per game, right in line with her career average of 37.6%.
Seattle finished 23-21 last season, which was good enough to earn the #7 seed in the WNBA Playoffs. They lost 2-1 to eventual champions Las Vegas in the first round, so it’s safe to say that they’ll be looking to improve on that campaign this year. The Storm did not lose anyone to Portland or Toronto in the expansion draft, but it’s hard to nail down exactly how Seattle might shape up this season because there are so many players who timed their contracts to end in concert with the start of the WNBA’s new collective bargaining agreement. Amongst those players are Seattle’s top three scorers from last season, and one of them, Nneka Ogwumike, has already signaled that she will not be returning to the Storm.
One true loss as a result of this signing? The likely end of the StudBudz, Hiedeman’s streaming partnership with Minnesota Lynx teammate Courtney Williams. It’s possible that the last time we see the StudBudz together in a meaningful way will have been at the 2026 NCAA Final Four, as they partnered up with ESPN on the alternate broadcast from courtside.
No matter what, Natisha Hiedeman remains the only Marquette player to ever appear in the WNBA, and until that changes, the tone and tenor of this website will float and flutter in the breeze as her contract situation dictates.
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