Connecticut Sun sign two sharpshooters ahead of 2025 WNBA season

The Connecticut Sun announced on Monday that guard Madison Hayes and forward Morgan Maly have signed training camp contracts.

Madison Hayes just completed a strong graduate season at North Carolina State, in which she averaged a career-best 10.9 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. She led the Wolfpack in rebounds per game, as well as total offensive rebounds (71), three-point percentage (41.3%), and free-throw percentage (81.9%). Hayes helped the Wolfpack to two ACC regular season titles (2022, 2025), an ACC conference tournament crown (2022), and an NCAA Final Four appearance in 2024.

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Morgan Maly, meanwhile, joins the Sun after a five-year career at Creighton University. The 6-1 guard averaged a career-best 17.3 points, as well as 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game in her senior season. She also shot a career-high 42.7 % from beyond the three-point line.

Maly is Creighton’s all-time leader in games played (150) and three-point field goals made (333). She is also second all-time in scoring (2,072) and sixth all-time in rebounding (801). She helped lead the Bluejays to four consecutive NCAA tournament berths, including the program’s first-ever NCAA Elite Eight appearance in 2022.

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The Connecticut Sun currently have 21 players listed on their training camp roster

In addition to Hayes and Maly, that list includes:

• Guard Abbey Hsu, a Columbia University standout who was drafted by the team in 2024
• Amy Okonkwo
• Center Kamila Borkowska, who hails from Poland
• Center Kariata Diaby from Cote d’Ivoire
• Forward Aneesah Morrow, the Sun’s No. 7 draft pick in 2025, from LSU
• Guard Saniya Rivers, the Sun’s No. 8 draft pick in 2025, from North Carolina State
• Center-forward Rayah Marshall, the Sun’s No. 25 pick from USC from the 2025 Draft
• Veteran guard Diamond DeShields, who signed with the Sun in free agency
• Guard Marina Mabrey, who returns for a second season in Connecticut
• Guard Jacy Sheldon, who the Sun acquired via trade from the Dallas Wings
• Forward Mya Hollingshed, who was drafted in 2022 by the Las Vegas Aces but has yet to play in the WNBA
• Center Olivia Nelson-Ododa, who returns for a fourth season in Connecticut
• Guard Yvonne Anderson, who previously played for the Sun in 2022
• Guard Lindsay Allen, who the Sun acquired via trade from the Chicago Sky
• Hall of Fame center Tina Charles
• French guard Leila Lacan, whom the Sun selected 10th overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft
• Forward Caitlin Bickle, a returning second-year forward
• Forward-guard Haley Peters
• Forward Robyn Parks

Of the 21 players, 12 will make the Sun’s final roster.