Kiara Leslie signs with AU Pro Basketball for 2025 season
Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball has signed guard Kiara Leslie to compete in the 2025 season in Nashville, Tennessee.
Leslie was selected with the 10th overall pick in the 2019 WNBA Draft by the Washington Mystics. She missed the 2019 season due to injury but returned in 2020 and competed for two years with the team. She appeared in 28 games (10 starts) with the Mystics, where she registered career averages of 4.6 points and 2.8 rebounds in 17.9 minutes per game.
She most recently played for Gigantes de Carolina in the Puerto Rican BSNF league.
She spent two years of her college career at Maryland before transferring to NC State. She earned the accolades of AP All-American Honorable Mention, First Team All-ACC, and All-ACC Defensive Team as a graduate student in the 2018-2019 season. In her final year for the Wolfpack she started all 34 games, averaging 33.4 minutes, 15.9 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game.
The fourth season of AU Pro Basketball will run from February 5 to March 2, 2025, at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Tickets are on sale now.
Savanna Collins is the Senior Reporter at Athletes Unlimited. You can follow her on Twitter @savannaecollins.
