The 2025 MEAC ladies’s basketball participant is taking her skills to the Far East.
Diamond Johnson, who led Norfolk State to their third straight NCAA event look, has signed a cope with Hefei of the Ladies’s Chinese language Basketball Affiliation.
Headed abroad! 👏
Congratulations to Diamond Johnson on signing a WCBA contract!
📰 https://t.co/Ff5esOSvC2#GoldStandard🔰 | @_diamond3_ pic.twitter.com/2QBBmSMDHO
— Norfolk State Ladies’s Basketball (@NorfolkStateWBB) June 22, 2025
Johnson beforehand participated in coaching camp with the 2024 WNBA Finals runners-up, the Minnesota Lynx.
A switch from North Carolina State, the Philadelphia native averaged 19 factors, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, and three.6 steals per recreation for the Spartans, who went 30-5 and gained the MEAC event title for the third 12 months in a row.
A number of observers, together with HBCU hoops professional Liv Antilla and former WNBA veteran Chasity Melvin, felt Johnson was a notable snub within the 2025 WNBA Draft. She signed a coaching camp contract with the Lynx, however by no means noticed recreation motion earlier than being launched.
