Atlanta basketball Olympian speaks about successful Bronze medal in Paris Olympic video games

Atlanta Dream’s Rhyne Howard has labored very exhausting to get to the place she is.

The WNBA guard likes the award for all that work however says she was going for Gold.

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“I’d prefer it higher if it was gold,” Rhyne stated.

Howard gained the Bronze on the Olympic Video games in Paris, France as a member of USA Basketball’s 3X3 Girls’s Nationwide Crew.

The staff defeated Canada, 16-13.

“For the remainder of her profession, she’ll be acknowledged as an Olympian. A Bronze medal-winning Olympian at that,” stated Atlanta Dream Head Coach Tanisha Wright.

The Dream chosen Rhyne as the primary total choose of the 2022 WNBA Draft.

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She has lived as much as that choice and now needs to assist take the staff to the highest of the league.

As for the final couple of weeks in France, she says she gained’t neglect it. As for the bronze medal, it isn’t on show simply but.

“It’s nonetheless in my backpack. I’ll most likely give it to my mother, and let her do no matter with it. Possibly show it in a case,” she stated.

Howard is the primary Dream participant to achieve the Olympic podium since Angel McCoughtry in 2016.

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