Elena Delle Donne ’08

Elena Delle Donne led Ursuline’s basketball team to national prominence during her five years as a varsity starter. The Raiders won four state titles during that time and Elena was named a McDonald’s All-American. She is the only Raider to have scored more than 2,000 points and set a girls’ national high school record with 80 consecutive free throws in 2005-06. The second pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, she was named WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2013, and MVP in 2015 and 2019. Elena has earned six WNBA All-Star honors (2013-2015, 2017-2019), and was named to the All-WNBA First Team four times (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019). In 2019, Elena and the Washington Mystics won the WNBA championship. A member of Team USA, she took home a gold medal during the 2016 Olympics.