Bella Valeriano Munson

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All women’s sports pretty much all the time University of Washington Reporter, Editor | The Equalizer Reporter | The Next also available for freelance 🤞

Screenshot of first three paragraphs of story that read: "SEATTLE — After the Seattle Storm huddled up to end shootaround on Friday, rookie guard Flau’jae Johnson suddenly disappeared to the locker room while her teammates started getting shots up. She came back out for her own shooting practice wearing a fake Meredith Gray hospital badge, the titular character from the Seattle-based TV show Grey’s Anatomy.

While Johnson’s life bears no real resemblance to the character whose show features increasingly insane story lines, both excel as young stars in their fields, even though they are just one member of a team. Both are extremely dedicated to their crafts, and the pursuit of getting better.

Perhaps Johnson also sees those similarities as she told The IX Sports that she was wearing the badge because it is one of her favorite shows and, only somewhat jokingly, because she is Meredith Grey. The show represents all she knew about Seattle before joining the Storm, wrongfully expecting it to be cold and raining all the time. Now, 15 games into her rookie season, Johnson has deepened her knowledge of both Seattle and basketball, but the work ethic that got her here remains."

Quote “Really she was back and then she had a little setback. Not with her knee, just with another little niggly injury. So that might delay her for a couple of weeks.” — Reign Head Coach Laure Harvey

Photo reads: Specifically to what we've seen with Zia, she was here early before camp started, and so she was able to get acclimated to the building to us as coaches, and, you know, learning our system pretty early, and that put her a leg up honestly, between the competition in camp, she's very quick. She's one of our quickest players here in camp. Her ability to to defend is what I've been really, really emphasizing with her. She's played with Nneka before, but coming back in a different environment and having different resources and just a different team makeup, I think has really empowered her to bring out her strengths. She's a student of the game, watching film every day, and you can see the professionalism has — she's learning it and exuding that every single day because of who we have here around her. And I think she's done an excellent job in camp with giving exactly what we're asking for.