Renee Montgomery: Why I Opted Out of the 2020 WNBA Season
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Renee Montgomery is a former WNBA player for the Atlanta Dream, the team she is now part-owner of. She won national championships with the UConn Huskies in 2009, and with the Minnesota Lynx in 2015 and 2017. In June of 2020, Montgomery announced that she would forgo the 2020 WNBA season to focus on social injustice
Renee Montgomery talks about how she made the decision to opt out of the 2020 WNBA Season to focus on social injustice.
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