AU Pro Basketball Season 4: Week 3 Draft Dots

Here is a list of notes and tidbits related to the AU Pro Basketball Week Three draft.

• Forward Maya Caldwell becomes the 23rd player in Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball history to serve as a captain after earning the right to lead the Purple squad into Week Three … The former Georgia product will also become the ninth different player to be a captain this season. 
• Guard Odyssey Sims begins her 12th career stint as a team captain, extending her AU Pro Basketball record … Sims also becomes the first player in league history to serve as a team leader at least one time in all four seasons. 
• Sims holds the AU Pro Basketball all-time records for games played as a captain (33) and wins by a captain (16) entering Week Three. 
• Forward Isabelle Harrison will embark on her eighth career week as an Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball captain when she guides the Blue squad into Week Three … She will move into a tie with guard Natasha Cloud for most weeks as a captain (8) and games played as a captain (24) at the conclusion of the week. 
• Should Harrison’s team win two or more games in Week Three, Harrison will pass Cloud for the second-most victories by a captain in Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball history … Cloud compiled 11 victories over three seasons, while Harrison enters Week Three with a 10-11 career record as a captain. 
• Forward Maddy Siegrist, who became the fifth captain in league history to author a 3-0 record in her debut, can join guard Allisha Gray as the only Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball captains to win the first four games as a team leader when her squad faces Team Harrison on Wednesday … Gray was victorious in her first four contests as a captain to open last season. 
• All four captains in Week Three were members of the same team in Week Two, marking the first time in Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball history where all four captains were teammates during the previous week.
• Each of Siegrist’s first three picks from the Week Two draft are now serving as captains in Week Three. 
• Siegrist and Caldwell did not select any of their Week Two teammates during the Week Three draft. 
• Sims picked three of her Week Two teammates – guards Kenisha Bell and Taj Cole along with forward Lydia Rivers – to join her team in Week Three. 
• Harrison will have two of her Week Two teammates on her roster in Week Three with guards Charisma Osborne and Sequoia Holmes donning the Blue jersey. 
• Guard Tyasha Harris was the No. 1 overall pick in the Week Three draft, becoming the 10th player in league history to be first choice in a weekly draft … A different player has been the top pick in each of the three drafts this season. 
• Guards accounted for six of the first seven selections in the Week Three draft, including all four choices in the opening round … Center Elizabeth Williams was the first non-guard picked in the proceedings, going to Team Sims with the first pick in the second round. 
• Guard Kierstan Bell made the largest positive move up the draft order, rising from the 14th overall selection in Week Two to being the No. 4 overall choice in Week Three … It also marks the fourth time in Bell’s career where she has been taken in the first round of a weekly draft. 
• Kierstan Bell will be wearing the Gold jersey for the fifth time in her Athletes Unlimited career in Week Three. 
• Sixteen players on the roster will be wearing a different jersey color for the third week in a row.  
• Forward Theresa Plaisance and guard Jude Schimmel are the only players to wear the same jersey color in all three weeks this season … Plaisance will don the Purple jersey for the third straight week, while Schimmel is a member of the Blue team again in Week Three.
• Plaisance has now worn the Purple jersey 7-of-12 career weekly segments, including the last four in a row dating back to last season … She is now tied with guard/forward Ty Young (2022-24) for the most times wearing the Purple jersey in league history. 
• Siegrist, Tyasha Harris and forward Alissa Pili will also wear the same jersey color for the second straight week … Siegrist is leading the Orange team, while Harris is wearing Purple again … Pili will be a member of the Blue squad for the second week in a row. 
• Guard Lexie Brown will be wearing the Blue jersey for the fifth time in her Athletes Unlimited career during Week Three … She has either worn Blue or Orange in 11-of-17 career weekly segments. 
• Cole is donning the Gold top for the fifth time in her AU Pro Basketball career, including her second time this season … The four-year Athletes Unlimited veteran has been chosen to play for the Gold or Orange squad 12 times in 17 career weekly segments. 
• Guard Sydney Colson returns to the Purple team for the second time in three weeks this season … The four-year AU veteran is playing for the Purple squad for the sixth time in her career. 
• Colson and Plaisance will be teammates for the fourth time in the last five weeks dating back to last season. 
• Guard Rebecca Harris is wearing the Orange jersey for just the third time in her four-year Athletes Unlimited career after being selected by Team Siegrist … It is the first time she has been picked to wear Orange since the opening week of the 2024 campaign. 
• Harrison will be wearing the Blue jersey for the seventh time in her Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball career, the most of any jersey color.