Table of Biography
Kelsey Plum is an American professional basketball player. Moreover, Kelsey Plum plays for the Las Vegas Aces team in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). In addition, she won a gold medal in Women’s 3×3 basketball, at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Kelsey Christine Plum best known as Kelsey Plum was born on 24th August 1994, in Poway, California, the United States of America. As of now, she is 28 years old and she is a citizen of America.
Moreover, her born sign is Aries and she belongs to a Caucasian ethnical background. Talking about her family, she is the daughter of Katie (mother) and Jim Plum (father).
She grew up in an athletic family background, as her mother was a volleyball player and her father was a football and baseball player. She has two elder sisters whose names are Kaitlyn and Lauren. Her two sisters are also volleyball players.
Talking about her academic life, she attended La Jolla Country Day School. She names the McDonald’s All-American. Later, she enrolled at the University of Washington where she was the captain of her college basketball team.
Body Measurements
Kelsey Plum is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 66 kg and has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Apart from this, there is no more information regarding Kelsey’s other body measurements.
Caption: Kelsey Plum body measurement (Source: Instagram)
Professional career
Talking about her professional career, she began playing basketball professionally in the WNBA. Moreover, she became part of the San Antonio Stars as the first pick in the 2017 WNBA draft. As of now, she is currently playing for the team and hasn’t been released yet.
In addition, she has already played for the United States national team. In 2013, she played in the Tenth FIBA U19 World Championship representing the USA held in Klaipeda and Panevezys, Lithuania.
Moreover, she made an average record of 5.6 points per game winning all nine games.
Caption: Kelsey Plum playing for the American women’s basketball team (Source: Instagram)
In the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto held from 16 July to 25 at the Ryerson Athletic, she was selected she represent the USA playing basketball. She recently signed a six-month contract with Galatasaray on 15 January 2022.
Moreover, she worked as a broadcaster on January 17, 2020, as an analyst for the Pac-12 Network’s broadcast of the Arizona State University of Washington women’s basketball game.
Kelsey Plum – Social Media
On her Facebook, there are more than 36k followers and there are more than 413k followers on Instagram. Likewise, there are more than 57k followers on Twitter.
Awards
She has received serval awards and recognition in her career. In 2013, she won the CalHiSports Ms. Basketball, WBCA High School Coaches’ All-America Team, and McDonald’s All-America team.
She was named to the WBCA NCAA Div. 1 All-America team in 2016. In 2017, she was named as NCAA all-time women’s basketball leading scorer, ESPNW national player of the year, and USBWA All-America team.
Kelsey Plum – Net Worth 2023
In the same year, she won the Dawn Staley Award and The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award as USBWA national player of the year. Besides that, she has won many other awards and honors.
She has collected a decent sum of money in her profession. But, she has not disclosed her salary, income, and net worth.
Relationship Status
Caption: Kelsey Plum posing with legendary basketball player late Kobe Bryant (Source: Instagram)
Kesley is a married woman. Furthermore, she married her longtime boyfriend Josh on 17 February 2016 at Kendall Plantation.
Kelsey Plum is not yet part of controversy and rumors. But, Kelsey was criticized when she broke the all-time scoring record in NCAA.