Kelsey Plum, also known as Plum Dawg, finished third in WNBA MVP voting in 2022. When you’re Top 3 in a league, you’re a megastar, and it’s fitting that Plum is now giving back to the next generation of top WNBA prospects, because she knows it wasn’t easy to reach her 2022 level of success.
On Wednesday, Plum, in collaboration with Under Armour, announced the April launch of the inaugural Dawg Class, a program allowing nine of the top NCAAW guards to be mentored by Plum on and off the court at IMG Academy in Bradenton Florida. Plum’s goal is to make this program a household name, so that it increases the visibility of the nine athletes, and to provide the resources that these women need to make a smooth transition into the WNBA.
The reason visibility is so important is that, according to Women In Sport, lack of media coverage discourages girls aged 11 to 21 from pursuing a future in sports because they believe it leads to them being treated unfairly.
The reason the resources are so important is that the pressure to perform in the pros poses a huge…
