Fresh off her final season with the Mountaineers, JJ Quinerly had been representing WVU women's basketball quite well at the highest level of the sport -- including registering multiple double-digit scoring performances. Now, she has seen her rookie season in the WNBA come to a disappointing end.
The Dallas Wings announced on Sunday that Quinerly will miss the remainder of the 2025 season after suffering an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) sprain in her left knee, which she sustained during the team's contest against the Los Angeles Sparks on August 20th.
Dallas Wings guard JJ Quinerly will miss the remainder of the 2025 season due to an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) sprain in her left knee. Quinerly sustained the injury in the Los Angeles Sparks game on Aug. 20.
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Quinerly has been impressive in her first season at the professional level. She has appeared in 34 of the team's 37 games so far, including 13 starts. Averaging just a smidge over 15 minutes per game, Quinerly put up some respectable numbers -- she managed to record 6.5 points, 2.3 assists, and 1.9 rebounds per game.
The seriousness of Quinerly's injury is not clear -- she did manage to put weight on her injured leg as she limped off the court against the Sparks, but the extent of how bad the sprain truly is or what the recovery time might look like has not been disclosed. The Wings are currently 9-28 and have been mathematically eliminated from the WNBA Playoffs this season, so the team likely decided there was no need to rush her back into action too quickly. However, it seems that the Wings will do what they can to keep Quinerly inside their organization until next season -- head coach Chris Koclanes recently praised the added depth and skillset she brings to the team.
“JJ, I’ve loved her spark off the bench. She’s been in and out of the starting lineup as well, but I’ve loved her spark,” Koclanes said. “Her energy, her tempo offensively — she gets that ball up the floor and gets us rolling. Defensively, her energy and tenacity — she competes at the point of attack and gives us a presence everyone feeds off of.
“In college, she wasn’t a point guard — she was a scoring guard, wired to score,” he explained. “We’ve challenged her to not lose that aggression, but to also find those moments to get others involved and try to be more of a point guard and lead our team that way. Really excited about JJ’s future.”