The 2025 WNBA Draft has arrived, and the Washington Mystics entered the selection meeting with five of the 38 picks, including the Nos. 3, 4, and 6 picks overall in Round 1.
They also added some future draft capital on Draft Day, but ahead of the proceedings, with a trade to net a 2026 selection – and you can read about that, plus all of the Mystics’ Draft Day activity, below!
TRADE: Mystics deal G Karlie Samuelson to Minnesota Lynx for 2026 first-round pick
It doesn’t help now, but the Mystics will have the Lynx’s first-round pick in 2026 after giving up Samuelson, who goes to her sixth team in seven WNBA seasons. In her lone year in DC, Samuelson averaged a career-high 8.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 29 games (19 starts) in 2024.
Samuelson, who turns 30 in May, has also played for Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, and Phoenix since coming into the league in 2018, but she has really made her hay overseas, winning league championships in Belgium, Spain, and Great Britain, as well as the 2024 EuroCup with her Turkish team.
NO. 3 OVERALL, ROUND 1: SG/SF Sonia Citron, Notre Dame
With the first of three picks they acquired from Chicago for Ariel Atkins back in February, the Mystics added wing Sonia Citron, a three-year starter and three-time All-ACC Selection at Notre Dame.
Citron averaged 14.1 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.9 steals in 34 minutes per game over 32 games last season, earning First Team All-ACC honors. She was also first team in 2023 and second team in 2024, and was the ACC Rookie of the Year in 2022.
The former McDonald’s All-American and Miss New York Basketball in 2021 also helped the USA to gold medals in in the 2021 FIBA U19 World Cup and the 2019 FIBA U16 Americas Championships.
NO. 4 OVERALL, ROUND 1: PG Georgia Amoore, VA Tech/Kentucky
Amoore, an Australian native, was a four-year starter at Virginia Tech from 2020-24, averaging 14.7 points and 5.2 assists in 126 games. She was a two-time All-ACC selection, part of the 2021 ACC All-Freshman Team, and a Third Team AP All-American in 2024.
She transferred to Kentucky last season and started all 31 games, averaging 19.6 points and 6.9 assists in 36.7 minutes per game, earning Second Team AP All-American honors.
In international play, Amoore previously led Australia to gold in the 2017 FIBA U-16 Asian Championship, bronze in the 2018 FIBA U-17 World Cup, and gold in the 2019 FIBA 3x3 U-18 Asia Cup.
NO. 6 OVERALL, ROUND 1: F Kiki Iriafen, Stanford/USC
With their final first-round pick, acquired back in 2023, the Mystics selected another final-year transfer in Iriafen, who averaged 18 points and 8.4 rebounds in 35 games for the Trojans and was named First Team All-Big Ten and Third Team AP All-American.
She spent her first three seasons at Stanford, averaging 19.4 points and 11 rebounds in 36 games in her breakout junior campaign, which earned her the Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year Award.
NO. 23 OVERALL, ROUND 2: PG Lucy Olsen, Villanova/Iowa
With a pick acquired from Connecticut in May 2024, the Mystics selected a third final-year transfer in Olsen, who averaged 17.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 5.1 assists in 32 games for the Hawkeyes and was named First Team All-Big Ten.
Olsen, a native of suburban Philly, spent her first three years close to home at Villanova, where she was a three-year starter and two-time All-Big East selection. She was the 2024 Big East Most Improved Player of the Year as a junior after averaging 23.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists.
NO. 32 OVERALL, ROUND 3: G Zaay Green, Alabama
The Mystics’ final pick of the night was the third Crimson Tide player off the board, and their fourth straight final-year transfer – this one with a twist.
Green began her career at Tennessee, breaking out as a freshman in 2018-19 before a torn ACL ended her 2019-20 season and led her to transfer to Texas A&M, where she played 17 games in 2020-21. She then spent three years at Arkansas-Pine Bluff – starting in 2021-22 and 2023-24 around another torn ACL in 2022-23 – before landing at Alabama as a grad transfer.
Her lone season in Tuscaloosa was a strong one, as Green started all 33 games and averaged 15.7 points, 5.0 boards, and 4.5 assists in 31.6 minutes per game.