Evina Westbrook

Personal: Westbrook is one of five children in her family. She lists her mother and UConn assistant coach Morgan Valley as people who have made a difference in her life. She enjoys spending time with friends, hiking, Top Golf and go-kart racing. She participated in tap and ballet dancing as a child.

2023 Season: In her inaugural AU Pro Basketball season, Westbrook secured 17th place with a total of 4,143 leaderboard points, ranking eighth in the league with 3,050 win points. Starting in all 15 games, she maintained an average of 8.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per contest. She tied for fifth in the league with 12 blocked shots and earned two Game MVP awards. She amassed 300 or more leaderboard points on nine occasions, including six of the first seven games. She reached the 400-point mark in back-to-back games, registering a season-best of 437 points in the Week One finale against Team Cole. Throughout the season, she recorded four double-digit scoring efforts, with a season-high of 21 points against Team Smith to commence Week Four. In that same game, she also posted a season-high seven assists. She netted 16 points against Team Cole on February 26 and began Week Five with 10 points against Team Sims.

Other Professional Experience: Westbrook was selected as the No. 21 overall pick by the Seattle Storm in the 2022 WNBA Draft. She played for the Minnesota Lynx and later the Washington Mystics after being waived by Seattle. During her rookie season, she averaged 2.6 points and 1.4 rebounds in 14 games with Minnesota before joining Washington on June 27, 2022. With the Mystics, she played in six games as a reserve, averaging 3.3 points and 1.0 rebounds per contest. She had a season-high of 10 points against Chicago on August 5, 2022. Moving into the 2023 campaign, she divided her time between Phoenix and Los Angeles, appearing in a total of 18 games as a reserve. Westbrook is the first Mexican-American athlete to play in WNBA history.

International Experience: Westbrook was a member of the Gold medal-winning Team USA at the 2016 FIBA Americas U-18 Championship. She also participated in the United States U-17 World Championship team trials in 2014 and the U-19 World Cup team trials in 2017.

At Tennessee: Westbrook spent her first two seasons at Tennessee before transferring to UConn. Throughout 2017-22, she appeared in 130 total games, boasting 109 starts. As a freshman and sophomore, she secured starting assignments in 64 games for the Lady Vols. She became a member of the 2017-18 Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team after maintaining averages of 8.4 points, 4.3 assists, and 2.8 rebounds per game. Her freshman year included 12 double-digit scoring efforts, with a standout 18-point performance against Auburn. During her sophomore season, she led the Lady Vols with 14.9 points and 5.3 assists per game, achieving a career-high of 29 points against Oklahoma State on December 2, 2018, and equaling that mark against Stanford on December 18, 2018.

At UConn: Westbrook appeared in 66 games at UConn, starting in 45. She averaged 9.2 points and 4.4 rebounds per game for the Huskies. In her redshirt junior season of 2020-21, she started in 30 games, registering 9.4 points along with a career-best of 5.3 rebounds per game. Her redshirt senior year saw her start in 15 of 36 games, maintaining a 9.0 scoring average. She achieved 17 double-digit scoring efforts, hitting a season-high of 17 points against UCLA on December 11, 2021, and also against Marquette on February 23, 2022.