By Bob Phillips
Connecticut’s 2020 roster will include seven players returning
from the 2019 season and four newcomers. Jonquel Jones, Alyssa Thomas, Jasmine
Thomas, Bria Holmes, Brionna Jones, Natisha Hiedeman and Theresa Plaisance are
all back from last year’s team that finished with the second-best record in the
regular season (23-11), reaching the WNBA Finals where they fell to MVP Elena
Delle Donne, Mike Thibault and the Washington Mystics in five games.
Joining the Sun for the first time will be DeWanna Bonner,
Briann January, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Kaila Charles. Bonner, January and
Mosqueda-Lewis, the former UConn star, were all acquired via free-agency.
Charles was selected by the Sun in the second round (No. 23 overall) in the
2020 WNBA Draft.
The Sun are preparing to enter their 18th season at the
Mohegan Sun Arena since arriving to Connecticut from Orlando in 2003. The WNBA
announced on April 3 that training camp and the 2020 regular season would be
postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has not yet announced when
operations would be resumed, nor details on how the league will handle things
(fans/no fans, testing players, travel, etc.). The 2020 season had originally
been scheduled to start on May 15.
For information, visit ConnecticutSun.com.
—with staff reports
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