When Khadijah Sessions graduated from USC in 2016, she was in a common position for many women’s basketball players — undrafted by the WNBA, which has just 144 roster spots to the NBA’s 450, but still eager to play basketball on a high level, especially in her home state.
And so the South Carolina Women’s Pro-Am was born. The men had had a Pro-Am throughout Sessions’ undergrad career with the Gamecocks, and she saw no reason the women shouldn’t have the same.
“When I was in college, I always wondered why we didn’t have a women’s pro-am,” Sessions said.