Megan Nestor, the most decorated women’s basketball player from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia, has taken a monumental step toward turning her lifelong goal of playing professional basketball into reality. The 2021 WNBA champion Chicago Sky announced Thursday that the towering forward has signed a training camp contract with the franchise, ahead of the league’s upcoming 2026 season.
Chicago’s preseason preparations are set to tip off this Sunday, April 19, at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Flames Athletic Center, kicking off what is expected to be a transformative year for the franchise after a disappointing 2025 campaign. The Sky finished last season with a dismal 10-34 win-loss record, prompting a massive roster overhaul this offseason that included trading fan-favorite Angel Reese and signing high-impact veteran and rising talents such as Skylar Diggins-Smith, DiJonai Carrington, Azurá Stevens and Rickea Jackson, who will join star center Kamilla Cardoso on the roster.
Against this backdrop of roster turnover, Nestor finds herself well-positioned to compete for a permanent spot on the team’s final regular-season roster. The 6-foot-4 athlete’s journey to the WNBAs’ doorstep began in the small fishing village of Canaries, Saint Lucia, where she first cut her teeth in competitive sports as a netball player at Soufriere Comprehensive Secondary School. Nestor’s early talent for competition shone through at a young age: she earned her first national team selection at 11, representing Saint Lucia at the Under-16 level, and later went on to captain the country’s Under-23 national side before transitioning full-time to basketball and joining the program at Wayland Baptist University.
Nestor’s breakout college season came last year as a redshirt senior at the University of North Texas, where she dominated the NCAA Division I boards to lead all collegiate players in rebounds per game. Over the course of the season, she averaged an impressive 12.8 points and 14.1 rebounds per outing, cementing her status as one of the most dominant rebounders in modern college basketball. Her historic 34-point, 31-rebound performance against Texas Southern stands as one of the most extraordinary stat lines in NCAA history — it was only the third 30-30 game recorded by any Division I women’s player since the 1981-82 season, the earliest year the NCAA began tracking the statistic consistently. The historic performance earned her American League Defensive Player of the Year honors.
Though she went undrafted in this year’s WNBA Draft, Nestor says the setback has not dimmed her belief in her ability to make the league. In an interview with St Lucia Times, she framed the training camp opportunity as a valid path to the roster, noting “Not getting drafted is not always the end of the world. You got people who go to training camp and make the team.”
For Nestor, the opportunity to compete with one of the league’s most storied franchises is the culmination of a years-long dream. “It’s kind of different from college,” she said. “The opportunity presented itself, and I took it because going to the WNBA became a dream of mine. And going to training camp is one way you can accomplish that.”
The Chicago Sky’s 2026 regular season will open on May 9 against expansion side Portland Fire, and all 12 roster spots are currently up for grabs as the franchise rebuilds after a rough 2025 campaign.