Captains Clark And Collier Set Final WNBA All-Star Rosters

The 2025 WNBA All-Star Game is set for July 19 in Indianapolis, and captains Caitlin Clark and Napheesa Collier have officially drafted their teams. Featuring player reunions, a coaching swap and a balanced mix of young stars and seasoned veterans, the event has all the makings of an entertaining and high-level showcase for fans.

Why are Caitlin Clark and Napheesa Collier captains?

The voting process blends fan, player and media input to determine the 12 All-Stars. Fans account for 50% of the vote, while current players and a panel of media members split the remaining half. Each voter selects four guards and six frontcourt players, regardless of conference, and the top 10 vote-getters are named All-Star starters.

Coaches vote on the reserves, picking three guards, five frontcourt players, and four wildcard choices, though they cannot vote for their own players.

The two players with the most fan votes are named captains and are responsible for drafting their teams from the available pool of starters and reserves. This year, Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark, voted first with a record-breaking 1,293,526 votes, and Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier, voted second second with 1,176,020, earned captain duties.

The remaining eight most voted players and automatic starters were Aliyah Boston (Fever), Paige Bueckers (Wings), Allisha Gray (Dream), Sabrina Ionescu (Liberty), Nneka Ogwumike (Storm), Satou Sabally (Mercury), Breanna Stewart (Liberty), and A’ja Wilson (Aces).

The reserves, per coach voting, were Sonia Citron (Mystics), Skylar Diggins (Storm), Rhyne Howard (Dream), Kiki Iriafen (Mystics), Kelsey Mitchell (Fever), Kelsey Plum (Sparks), Angel Reese (Sky), Alyssa Thomas (Mercury), Kayla Thornton (Valkyries), Courtney Williams (Lynx), Gabby Williams (Storm), Jackie Young (Aces).

Team Clark and Team Collier Take Shape

The final All-Star rosters are set during a draft on ESPN, with captains taking turns at picking names in two rounds. In the first round, each of them selects four from the starters pool, whereas in the second they each select six from the reserves list. After that, they are allowed to make trades that include the same number of players from each number and category. That meaning, starters for starters and reserves for reservers.

Clark, the top vote-getter, kicked things off by picking Fever teammate Boston, followed by Ionescu, Wilson and Sabally. The selected reserves were Mitchell, G. Williams, Citron, Iriafen, Young and Thorton.

Collier drafted Stewart, fellow Husky and co-founder at Unrivaled. She also selected Bueckers, another UConn alumna, as well as veterans Gray and Ogwumike. For reserves, Collier selected C. Williams, Diggins, Reese, Thomas, Plum and Howard.

Albeit no player trade, the captains agreed on a coach change. Per WNBA rules, the head coach of each conference leading team would serve in the same capacity at the All-Star game. With the Minnesota Lynx being first in the West and overall, and the New York Liberty first in the East and third overall, Cheryl Reeve was initially allocated to command Team Clark, and Sandy Brondello to Team Collier.

Both captains agreed on trading coaches, meaning Brondello will reunite with the Liberty’s Ionescu, and Reeve with Lynx’ Collier and Williams, as well as Team USA’s Stewart, Plum and Thomas.