Hailey Van Lith turns heads on WNBA Draft red carpet

Hailey Van Lith turned heads connected the hoops tribunal successful college, and earlier the WNBA Draft started connected Monday night, she was doing the aforesaid connected the orangish carpet.

The erstwhile TCU Horned Frogs prima was glistening successful a achromatic dress. Paige Bueckers, Kiki Iriafen, Sonia Citron, Georgia Amoore, Aneesah Morrow, Aziaha James and Saniya Rivers joined Van Lith connected the carpet up of the draft.

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TCU's Hailey Van Lith poses earlier the WNBA hoops draft, Monday, April 14, 2025, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

It was Van Lith who got societal media talking.

"It’s a funeral, babe. It’s a assemblage funeral," she said of her outfit.

Van Lith entered the draught pursuing her last collegiate play astatine TCU. She helped pb the Horned Frogs to a Big 12 Championship earlier losing successful the Elite Eight. It was the archetypal clip the programme had ever made it that acold successful the NCAA Women’s Tournament.

TCU's Hailey Van Lith jogs onto the tribunal during introductions earlier the archetypal fractional successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney crippled against Louisville successful Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, March 23, 2025.  (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

She averaged 15.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists successful 172 vocation games. She was an All-American for the archetypal clip past season.

Van Lith went viral earlier the play was implicit erstwhile she spoke astatine magnitude astir her intelligence health.

"The mode that I got exposed to the media and societal media astatine specified a young age, I truly struggled with intelligence wellness things," she said, via Sports Illustrated. "When I was younger and successful college, I was suicidal, I was heavy medicated, and I felt trapped.

TCU's Hailey Van Lith was expected to beryllium 1 of the archetypal selections successful the WNBA Draft. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

"You would ne'er cognize due to the fact that I was having a ton of occurrence connected the court, but internally, and successful beingness successful general, I was acceptable to beryllium done. That's what I mean erstwhile I talk connected suffering and pain. It's similar I didn't adjacent privation to live.

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"So, to travel from that to this is incredible. I’ve been praying each twelvemonth like, 'God, I cognize you've fixed maine this grounds to stock it with the satellite and shed your light,' and I deliberation this is the twelvemonth and this is the infinitesimal that helium wants radical to cognize my communicative and however helium has taken maine virtually from the depths of wanting to dice to this infinitesimal of loving life. Even if hoops went distant today, I genuinely would privation to beryllium present and emotion these people."

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