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Augustus, Fowles & Plaisance Tipoff 2020 WNBA Season This Weekend

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU women's basketball alumnae Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles and Theresa Plaisance continue their professional careers in the WNBA as the 2020 season tips off this weekend at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Augustus is going into her 15th season in the league, but her first season with the Los Angeles Sparks. The four-time WNBA champion traded in her blue and silver Minnesota Lynx uniform after 14 seasons for the purple and gold of the Sparks in February 2020. Augustus is an eight-time All-Star, six-time All-WNBA honoree and a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist with USA Basketball.