Senior Texas guard Ariel Atkins was selected by the Washington Mystics with the seventh pick in the 2018 WNBA Draft, which took place on Thursday in Manhattan, N.Y.
Atkins, who watched the draft in her hometown of Duncanville, Texas, with family and friends, was the 10th player in program history to be selected in the WNBA Draft and the fifth first-round pick in UT history. At No. 7 overall, she was the third-highest drafted player in program history, behind Edwina Brown (2000, No. 3) and Tiffany Jackson (2007, No. 5). The Longhorns have had a WNBA first-round draft pick in two of the last three seasons (Imani McGee-Stafford, 2016, No.