Chicago Sky announced Friday that second-year guard Kysre Gondrezick has been . Gondrezick made a return to the in 2024 after a two-year absence, signing a contract with in February, but managed just five appearances this season — she hit a three in her first game since June 8 on Thursday against . This decision comes at a particularly devastating time for players like Gondrezick signed to non-guaranteed deals.
The 5'9 guard inked a training camp contract worth the minimum WNBA salary of $64,164 but was waived just days before the mid-season cutdown deadline, whereafter all contracts become fully guaranteed. The Michigan native developed into one of the nation's premier high-school prospects at Benton Harbor High School and, initially, she elected to keep her five-star skillset close to home and enroll at Michigan. Gondrezick enjoyed one of the best freshman seasons in Wolverines history, averaging nearly 15 points per game with a scintillating 43 percent three-point average, but abruptly departed the team during its WNIT run citing personal reasons and later announced her transfer to West Virginia.
Gondrezick was limited to just five games during her first season of eligibility in Morgantown due to injury but quickly rediscovered her scoring touch, scoring nearly 20 points a night her senior year for a West Virginia squad that finished No. 17 in the AP Poll. She was then selected No.
4 overall by in 2021. The Fever cut Gondrezick just nine months later after she temporaril.