LSU’s Angel Reese to be in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

LSU star Angel Reese can add one other accolade to her already spectacular resume – Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit mannequin.

Reese traded a purple jersey for a purple bikini within the snapshots launched by Sports activities Illustrated on Monday. She is recent off a nationwide championship with the Tigers.

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LSU’s Angel Reese celebrates after an NCAA Ladies’s Last 4 semifinals basketball recreation in opposition to Virginia Tech Friday, March 31, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Picture/Darron Cummings)

“Angel Reese is an outstanding basketball participant,” SI Swimsuit editor-in-chief MJ Day mentioned. “She’s an All- American and was named the Most Excellent Participant of the NCAA girls’s basketball match. Whereas we’re in fact right here to have a good time her unimaginable achievements and athleticism, it wouldn’t be an SI Swimsuit second if we weren’t shining a lightweight on Angel’s achievements off the courtroom.

“Angel is combating the double normal in sports activities, particularly for girls. She is making a reputation for herself as a fierce competitor and an equally fierce advocate for rising the sport of ladies’s basketball. Her depth, drive and fervour round being unapologetically herself and talking up for what she believes in helps transfer the needle ahead for girls in sports activities and is liberating the subsequent era to really feel seen and heard. Our aim right here is to assist empower as many ladies as we are able to, and we’re past excited to try this alongside Angel Reese within the 2023 concern.”

LSU Woman Tigers ahead Angel Reese celebrates after defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes through the ultimate spherical of the Ladies’s Last 4 NCAA match on the American Airways Middle. (Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports activities)

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Reese was thrust into the nationwide highlight when her trash speaking with Iowa star Caitlin Clark went viral round social media. She backed it up too. She had 15 factors, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and three steals to assist LSU trounce Iowa 102-85. She was named the Most Excellent Participant of the match.

The previous Maryland participant’s identify, picture and likeness valuation sits at $1.4 million, based on On3 Sports activities.

Angel Reese, #10 of the LSU Woman Tigers, smiles in celebration after defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes through the 2023 NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event Nationwide Championship at American Airways Middle on April 2, 2023 in Dallas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Images through Getty Pictures)

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Reese and Olivia Dunne have each made the swimsuit version as LSU Tigers athletes.