The Indiana Fever have re-signed guard Jeanette Pohlen-Mavunga, who will return for her seventh season with the club.
The Fever announced the signing on Friday. Head coach and general manager Pokey Chatman has re-signed four of her team’s six 2018 free agents. Pohlen-Mavunga, as a six-year WNBA veteran, was an unrestricted free agent this offseason along with Jennie Simms and Shenise Johnson, who remains unsigned.
Indiana re-signed Simms and reserved player Jennifer Hamson earlier this week. The Fever also have re-signed Erica Wheeler, another 2018 reserved player. Candice Dupree, Indiana’s designated core player, remains unsigned as of Friday along with Johnson.
Pohlen-Mavunga was able to soak up additional minutes for the Fever down the final stretch of the 2017 regular season. Indiana was hit hard by injuries to its perimeter rotation, losing Briann January, Shenise Johnson and Tiffany Mitchell to season-ending injuries.
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Pohlen-Mavunga appeared in all but five regular season games for the Fever, connecting on 38.5% (15-for-39) of her three-point attempts. She logged 18 minutes or more in the final seven games of the season, scoring 10 points or more in three of those games.
The 6’0 guard was selected ninth overall by the Fever in the first round of the 2011 WNBA Draft out of Stanford, fresh off a season in which she was named Pac-12 Player of the Year and an AP first-team All-American.
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Pohlen-Mavunga led the WNBA in three-point shooting percentage (46.8%) as a rookie in 2011, and she is a 42.0% three-point shooter to date through six WNBA seasons. Pohlen-Mavunga has been a part of both of Indiana’s run to the WNBA Finals in 2015 and their 2012 championship season.
The Fever have also acquired center Kayla Alexander from the Las Vegas Aces along with a third round pick in exchange for their 2019 second round pick.