Dallas Wings Select Guard Veronica Burton in the 2022 WNBA Draft
April 11, 2022 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Dallas Wings News Release
Arlington, Texas - With the seventh overall pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft, the Dallas Wings selected Northwestern guard Veronica Burton.
Three-time Big 10 Defensive Player of the Year (2020-22) - only the second player ever in conference history to accomplish this feat
Third-Team Associated Press All-American - first player in program history to be named AP All-American
Led the Big 10 in steals all four years at Northwestern
All-Big Ten First Team in 2021 and 2022
Team Captain her senior year
Veronica Burton Bio
A three-year starter at point guard for Northwestern University, Burton, became the first player in program history to be named to an AP All-America team, earning a spot on the Third Team in 2022, and also was the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year three straight years from 2020-22, which was only the second time in Big 10 history this had been accomplished (Tanisha Wright, Penn State, 2003-05). She was also the last remaining guard for the 2022 Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year award as a semi-finalist, as she led the NCAA in steals. During her senior year, Burton averaged 17.8 points, 5.5 rebounds and dished out 6.4 assists while swiping 4 steals, all career highs for the four-year standout.
The Newtown, Ma. native averaged 6.4 assists per game, ranked seventh in the NCAA, and her production increased against better opponents, as she averaged more than 18 points per game against seven ranked opponents last season. She attended Newton South High School and was named First-Team All-State by USA Today and the Boston Globe Player of the Year in her senior year. Burton comes from an athletic family as her father, Steve, played quarterback at Northwestern, her mother, Ginni, was an All-American and Big 10 champion in swimming at Northwestern. Her grandfather and three uncles also played football at Northwestern and currently her brother, Austin, is a quarterback at UCLA. Burton has two sisters, Kendall, who played basketball at Villanova, and Kayla, who played basketball at Lehigh.
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