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Basketball trainer Arez Bazel (left) and his fiancé Lynx star Nafisa Collier (WNBA All-Star Game).
Alex Bazell
previous UConn Women’s Basketball Star Nafisa Collier married longtime boyfriend Alex Bazelle on Friday night in St. Louis, Missouri.
Several former Huskies attended Collier’s wedding, including Kia Nurse, Kyra Irwin, Gabby Williams, Azler Stevens, and Katie Lou Samuelson.
collier and bazel We started dating when I was in third grade At UConn before getting engaged in October 2019. The two met when he started helping Collier train in college.
The couple welcomed their first child in May. Daughter Mila Sara Bazel.
After missing this year’s WNBA preseason and giving birth to Mila, Collier back in court Early August in the Minnesota Lynx. Collier said it will be important to return and play at the end of the season alongside WNBA legend and Lynx teammate Sylvia Fowles before Fowles retires this offseason.
Collier graduated from UConn in 2019 and was a member of the Huskies’ 2016 National Championship team. She was named her AAC Player of the Year two times and was named All-American in college.
Minnesota drafted Collier sixth overall in the 2019 WNBA Draft. That year, Collier was named the WNBA Rookie of the Year and an All-Star.
The former Husky won his first Olympic gold medal for Team USA last summer at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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