MT’s Kseniya Malashka taken in third round of WNBA draft

BY LOGAN BUTTS

Middle Tennessee’s Kseniya Malashka was selected in the third round of the 2023 WNBA draft on Monday night, landing with the Chicago Sky at 35th overall.

The 6-0 forward became the fifth Blue Raider to be drafted, all under current head coach Rick Insell, joining two-time WNBA champion and Mt. Juliet alum Alysha Clark, Amber Holt, Chrissy Givens, and current Atlanta Dream member Cheyenne Parker.

The VCU transfer made an instant impact in Murfreesboro, earning the C-USA Sixth Player of the Year award in each of her two seasons as a Blue Raider, notching a spot on the all-conference second team for 202122, and being named to the 2022 All-WNIT Team after Middle Tennessee reached the final four of that tournament.

The Belarus native averaged 15.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.7 blocks, and 1.3 steals per game last season, helping the Blue Raiders to a 28-5 record, an NCAA Tournament appearance, and Conference USA regular season and tournament titles.

During her collegiate career, Malashka played in 128 games and collected 1,207 points, 550 rebounds, and 165 blocks. Kseniya

Comment

Mr. Trump pretends to be a victim even though all these years he has gotten his way through wealth and power. Now Mr. Trump warns that if the government can come after him, it can come after anyone who pays off a porn star and tries to overturn an election. And what kind of precedent will this set, if people are held accountable for their actions!? After a lifetime of getting away with lying and cheating, Mr. Trump is finding out that as another Republican, Mr. Reagan, famously complained, “Government for the people, of the people, and by the people IS the problem.”

Ticked Off

I am offended as should all thinking individuals should be that the MURDERESS that killed 3 innocent children and 3 devoted adults is a victim

How laughable if not so tragic. What are those ignorant individuals thinking

I’m simply amazed at the stupidity of certain individuals of today. This is so tragically sad.

Expulsions

I am irate, repulsed, sickened, at the actions of the mass collection of idiots in the state government voting on the expulsion of 3 members for exercising their freedom of speech and right to express their anger in the killing of 6 human beings. Do these Repulsivecans have nothing better to legislate? Will it take a child or grandchild of their own to be slayed in a mass school shooting to bring these sons of b*tches to the knees and to their senses? Are they so power-hungry that they will do whatever it takes to enter into a one-party, one-rule form of government? Are the thoughts and ideas of others not pertinent to today’s many problems and issues?

******* head that something has to be done, NOW”. I am going to agree to disagree with your disagreement. The time is NOW to act up since the majority of Nashville’s voters have put in the incompetent, ignorant, ruling body of our state government. I am extremely proud to say that I have voted in every election held since moving here in 1988. If more people would just take a look at candidates, listen to what they have to say, decipher what is good, bad and BS, then make an intelligent decision before pulling the lever to vote, not just because they represent a certain political party. Vote with your head and heart, not because your grandfather voted only a particular party for decades. That’s what has gotten us into the terrible, repulsive predicament we are in today.

that enabled America to become a democracy. The Revolutionary War was fought for the principles of freedom, one such is the freedom of speech. Yet the very same reasons that the Europeans left England for new lands is the oppression that they implemented and institutionalized America. Throughout its existence America has and continue to afford these democratic principle to people of color. There is no argument that the Europeans’ ancestors waged wars to conquer (STEAL) this land, but no one can dispute that it was the enslavement of black people that built its wealth. Yet even today we can not share in its prosperity.

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“RESPONSE

TO GREEN HILLS SHOOTING”

RESPONSE

I am the writer of “get it through your

DISORDERLY CONDUCT THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY.

“Disorderly Conduct” is the principle