The 3-Point Contest and Skills Challenge have become solid parts of WNBA All-Star Weekend.
Both went away after 2010, only to return in 2017 and 2019, respectively. The formatting is identical to what the NBA does as part of its All-Star Weekend in the winter.
Here’s what you need to know about this year’s 3-Point Contest and Skills Challenge during WNBA All-Star Weekend.
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2023 WNBA 3-Point Contest participants
The league announced the participants of this year’s 3-Point Contest on July 13, and the field is wide open with Allie Quigley stepping back. Quigley won the 2022 competition for a career four-peat, becoming the first basketball player in either the WNBA or NBA to do so.
The rules for the contest are simple: Make as many shots beyond the arc as possible from five different positions. Oh yeah, and they only get one minute.
The three players with the highest score advance to the final round, which is played the same as the first, only in reverse order.
You can find the list of 3-Point Contest participants below.
Player
Team
DiJonai Carrington
Connecticut Sun
Sabrina Ionescu
New York Liberty
Kelsey Mitchell
Indiana fever
Arike Ogunbowale
Dallas Wings
Sami Whitcomb
Seattle Storm
Jackie Young
Las Vegas Aces
2023 WNBA Skills Challenge participants
The league announced on July 11 that the format for this year’s Skills Challenge would be changing, opening the field to four sets of All-Star teammates. The eight athletes will go through a “two-round, timed, obstacle course, relay competition that tests agility, dribbling, passing and shooting skills.”
Because the event is being presented by Kia, there’s a special obstacle positioned on the course: a Kia EV6.
Each team will compete one at a time, and the two teams that finish the first round course the fastest will advance to the finals. In the event of a tiebreaker, whether to determine a winner or simply advancement, the tied teams will be required to rerun the course.
You can find the list of Skills Challenge participants below, taking the form of four teams: Team Aces, Team Dream, Team Liberty and Team Wings.
Team
Players
Las Vegas
Chelsea Gray, Kelsey Plum
Atlanta
Allisha Gray, Cheyenne Parker
New York
Sabrina Ionescu, Courtney Vandersloot
Dallas
Arike Ogunbowale, Satou Sabally
WNBA All-Star schedule 2023
WNBA All-Star Weekend spans across two days and will have a variety of things to catch before the actual game commences.
Date
Time (ET)
Program / Commentators
Platform
Friday, July 14
4 p.m.
Kia WNBA Skills Challenge & WNBA Starry 3-Point Contest
Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo, Holly Rowe
ESPN
Saturday, July 15
8 p.m.
WNBA Hoop Stream presented by Google
Christine Williamson, Terrika Foster-Brasby, Sam Ravech
ESPN app, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
8 p.m.
WNBA Countdown presented by Google
LaChina Robinson, Andraya Carter, Ros Gold-Onwude, Carolyn Peck
ABC
8:30 p.m.
AT&T WNBA All-Star Game 2023
Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo, Holly Rowe
ABC
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