{"id":626,"date":"2008-09-18T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/09\/18\/sophia-young-leads-san-antonio-silver-stars-into-wnba-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:58:26","slug":"sophia-young-leads-san-antonio-silver-stars-into-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/09\/sophia-young-leads-san-antonio-silver-stars-into-wnba-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Young leads San Antonio Silver Stars into WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sophia-young-sept08.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia Young\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" \/>In just her third year in the league, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/features\/player_rankings_080912.html\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA MVP candidate Sophia Young<\/a> led the San Antonio Silver Stars to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/standings\/team_record_comparison\/conferenceNew_Std_Cnf.html\" target=\"_blank\">best record in the league<\/a> and home-court advantage throughout the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/playoffs2008\/series.html\" target=\"_blank\">playoffs<\/a>, which begin tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/playerfile\/sophia_young\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Young<\/a> finished the regular season averaging 17.5 points (a new career high) and 5.6 rebounds per game, and the former Baylor All-American ranks among the league&#8217;s top 10 in points and steals.<\/p>\n<p>She is joined in the WNBA by one other fellow Baylor alum: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba.com\/playerfile\/bernice_mosby\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bernice Mosby<\/a>, a forward for the Washington Mystics. The pair join the growing list of former Baylor athletes in professional ranks in other sports like <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/09\/09\/fifth-bear-in-the-big-leagues-homers-in-his-first-at-bat-for-hometown-astros\/\" target=\"_blank\">baseball<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/09\/04\/bears-carry-baylor-name-to-the-nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\">football<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em in the playoffs, Sophia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just her third year in the league, WNBA MVP candidate Sophia Young led the San Antonio Silver Stars to the best record in the league and home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, which begin tonight. Young finished the regular season averaging 17.5 points (a new career high) and 5.6 rebounds per game, and the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}