Harmoni Turner Selected by Las Vegas Aces With 35th Pick of the WNBA Draft

Harvard senior guard Harmoni Turner was selected as the 35th pick by the Las Vegas Aces in the 2025 WNBA draft, becoming the fourth player from Harvard to be drafted to the WNBA.

Turner racked up accolades this season as she led the Harvard team to its best regular season record in program history. She was recently named as the Women’s Basketball Ivy League Player of the Year after averaging 22.5 points, 3.4 assists, and 2.8 steals per game this season.

She helped carry the Crimson in Ivy Madness with a 44-point game in the semifinal against Princeton that broke the Ivy Madness scoring record. A day later, she helped earn the team’s first Ivy League Championship, clinching a March Madness berth — the school’s first since 2007.

With the selection, Turner joins Allison Feaster ’98 to become just the second Harvard player to be drafted into the WNBA without first playing for another college.

Prior to the draft, Turner was a projected second-round draft pick, with ESPN predicting that the star guard would go at #19.

Turner — a self identified “Hoop Nerd” — will now take her talents to Las Vegas. But Turner is up for the task.

“Every challenge, every setback, and every triumph has led me here,” Turner wrote in her post declaring for the draft earlier this month.

“The grind doesn’t stop, and the dream never fades. It only gets stronger.”

—Staff writer Sudhish M. Swain can be reached at sudhish.swain@thecrimson.com.