Kelsey Plum is a popular women’s professional basketball player who has been exceptional over the years.
She became more famous after winning the back-to-back WNBA championships that took place in 2022 and 2023.
She has been very active in her career and created a name for herself. She has been able to break records for herself in the world of basketball games.
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Kelsey Plum Biography
She was born August 24, 1994, in Poway, California, United States. She was born into the family of Katie Plum and Jim Plum.
Her mother happens to be well-known and also an accomplished volleyball player who played for the University of California, Davis.
However, her father was also a footballer who earned the All-American football honors and he also set the CIF San Diego section career passing yardage market at Helix High School in La Mesa, California.
Her parents were both lovers of sports and they did so well that they were recognized in football and volleyball as being good players.
Kelsey has two older sisters and she also has a younger brother.
Her sisters are also into sports and they play volleyball just like their mother, and the oldest sister whose name is Kaitlyn is playing for UC Davis.
Kelsey’s other sister is playing for the University of Oregon and she plays for USA volleyball’s junior national team, while their only brother, Daniel plays football at UC Davis.
The 31-year-old attended one of the local Montessori schools where she went through her fourth grade but later switched to a public school after being bullied by other students.
However, this brought her to La Jolla Country Day School which she later chose instead of the Poway High School which her siblings had attended.
Kelsey Plum proceeded to the University of Washington for the degree after high school, she weighs about 66kg and stands about 5 feet 8 inches tall.
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She is a Christian by religion and she has a tattoo on her right forearm which she drew in 2018, the tattoo reads “Keep the faith”, she is also an Irish descent.
WNBA Career
She started her career while she was still in high school. She did so well in her team and was able to score a total of 2,247 points, which is likely an average of 19.9 points per game.
She recorded about 677 rebounds, and assisted on 381 baskets. She had about 370 steals, her four years of being in high school her team had a record of 103-22, and this brought them about four section titles.
Kelsey Plum was also selected to the 2013 WBCA high school coaches’ All-America Team, and she performed extremely well, she got six hits of her eight field goal attempts and also scored 14 points.
Her diligence and consistency earned her the honor of being recognized as the McDonald’s All-American and this qualifies her to participate in the 2013 McDonald’s All-American Girls Game.
Plum was also named Ms. Basketball by CalHoSports and she was honored as the best female high school basketball player in California.
She continued playing till her freshman year in college and she helped the USA basketball team to win a gold medal in Lithuania.
Kelsey set six Washington freshman records during her freshman year and she had a total points of 695 which were the most ever by a freshman.
She also had 38 points in her single game which happens to be the highest points.
However, this earned her the freshman of the year honors for the pac-12 conference and she was also very serious with her studies despite dedicating most of her time to basketball.
Kelsey graduated with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology with a GPA of 3.3 from Washington in June 2017.
She is also a philanthropist and she once worked as a broadcaster in January 2020.
She was working as an analyst for pac-12 Network’s broadcast of the Arizona State at the University of Washington women’s basketball game.
Kelsey Plum Husband
She was married to her then-heartrob named Darren Waller who is also a football player, although the marriage only lasted for a year before they divorced.
They got married on March 4, 2023, after being in a relationship for some years and they finally decided to walk down the aisle together on April 23, 2024.
However, Kelsey and her ex-husband did not share any child and since then she has remained single and paid more attention to her career.
Irrespective of her failed marriage she has never smoked during that period and she had her first cigarette in 2022 even before she got married.
Plum however began to smoke for self-motivation during some of her games and this brought about criticism of her personality.
This was becoming serious as they claimed that she was putting the health of the kids around at risk and she was also a bad influence on them.
However, Kelsey was later faced with suicidal thoughts and depression while trying to fix her mind back to her career after leaving her marriage.
After being able to overcome the depression she became an advocate for mental health and was also helping others overcome their fears.
Kelsey Plum Net Worth & Sponsorships
Kelsey Plum’s net worth has climbed to $2 million in 2025, boosted by her latest one-year deal with Los Angeles.
However, the contract is worth about $202,000 and this is someone who was earning $50,000 in her rookie season.
Plum was able to secure a three-year contract extension with the Ace in 2020 and it was valued at $423,250, this was a result of her good performance.
Her consistency gradually paid off and she earned another two-year extension in 2022 which was worth about $400,000 or $200,000 there about per year.
All through 2022 and 2023 Kelsey happens to be the key player for the Aces in their current reign as the constant winners of the WNBA.
Plum has also boosted her earnings through sponsorships and so many endorsement deals aside from her salary from the Aces.
The 31-year-old signed a deal originally with Nike after she joined the league in 2022 after winning her first WNBA championship and she became the headlines when she switched to a sponsorship deal with a brand called Under Armour.
However, she has also sponsored deals with so many recognized brands like Kingmaker Cigars, Google, Target, LegalZoom, and Skims.
Kelsey Plum has also added to her income by playing some off-season games in overseas leagues for some Turkish clubs like Fenerbahce and Galatasaray and this added $100,000 to her net worth.
