{{Short description|American basketball player (born 2003)}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Raegan Beers | image = Raegan Beers.jpg | image_size = | caption = Beers with [[Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball|Oklahoma]] in 2025 | number = 15 | position = [[Forward (basketball)|Forward]] | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 4 | weight_lbs = 244 | league = [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]] | team = Connecticut Sun | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2003|7|23}} | birth_place = [[Littleton, Colorado]], U.S. | high_school = [[Valor Christian High School|Valor Christian]]<br />([[Highlands Ranch, Colorado]]) | college = *[[Oregon State Beavers women's basketball|Oregon State]] (2022–2024) *[[Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball|Oklahoma]] (2024–2026) | career_start = 2026 | career_end = | years1 = {{WNBA Year|2026}}–present | team1 = [[Connecticut Sun]] | highlights = * Third-team [[NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] – [[Associated Press|AP]] ([[2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans|2024]]) * Third-team All-American – [[United States Basketball Writers Association|USBWA]] ([[2026 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans|2026]]) * 2× First-team All-[[Southeastern Conference|SEC]] (2025, 2026) * 2× [[List of All-Pac-12 Conference women's basketball teams|All-Pac-12 Team]] – Coaches (2023, 2024) * All-Pac-12 Team – Media (2024) * [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-12]] Freshman of the Year (2023) * Pac-12 Sixth Player of the Year (2023) * Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2023) * [[McDonald's All-American Game|McDonald's All-American]] ([[2022 McDonald's All-American Girls Game|2022]]) | wnba_profile = 1643441 | medal_templates = {{MedalSport|Women's [[basketball]]}} {{MedalCountry|the {{bkw|USA}}}} {{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA Women's AmeriCup|FIBA AmeriCup]]}} {{MedalGold|[[2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup|2025 Chile]]|}} }} '''Raegan Beers''' (born July 23, 2003) is an American professional [[basketball]] player for the [[Connecticut Sun]] of the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA). She played [[college basketball]] for the [[Oregon State Beavers women's basketball|Oregon State Beavers]] and [[Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball|Oklahoma Sooners]].
==High school career== Beers played basketball for [[Valor Christian High School]] in [[Highlands Ranch, Colorado]]. She missed her junior season with a [[Anterior cruciate ligament injury|torn ACL]], as her team won the Class 5A state title in her absence.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saunders |first1=Patrick |title=Colorado's towers of power: Valor's Raegan Beers returns to challenge Grandview's Lauren Betts |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/28/raegan-beers-valor-christian-grandview-lauren-betts/ |website=[[The Denver Post]] |access-date=March 13, 2024 |date=November 28, 2021}}</ref> As a senior, she helped Valor Christian return to the Class 5A state title game and was named a [[2022 McDonald's All-American Girls Game|McDonald's All-American]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fredrickson |first1=Kyle |title=Raegan Beers lifts Valor Christian girls basketball to 5A state championship game |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/10/reagan-beers-valor-christian-arapahoe-5a-state-tournament/ |website=[[The Denver Post]] |access-date=March 13, 2024 |date=March 10, 2022}}</ref> Rated a five-star [[college recruiting|recruit]] by [[ESPN]], Beers committed to play college basketball for [[Oregon State Beavers women's basketball|Oregon State]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nemec |first1=Andrew |title=Raegan Beers, nation's No. 4 post, commits to Oregon State Beavers women's basketball |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/recruiting/2020/10/raegan-beers-nations-no-4-post-commits-to-oregon-state-beavers-womens-basketball.html |website=[[The Oregonian]] |access-date=March 13, 2024 |date=October 12, 2020}}</ref>
==College career== As a freshman at Oregon State, Beers averaged 13.3 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, earning [[List of All-Pac-12 Conference women's basketball teams|All-Pac-12]] honors from the league's coaches and being named [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-12]] Freshman of the Year and Sixth Player of the Year.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Daschel |first1=Nick |title=Beavers Oregon State forward Raegan Beers among 22 invited to USA Basketball's AmeriCup team trials |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/05/oregon-state-forward-raegan-beers-among-22-invited-to-usa-basketballs-americup-team-trials.html |website=[[The Oregonian]] |access-date=March 13, 2024 |date=May 4, 2023}}</ref> In her sophomore season, she was selected to the All-Pac-12 Team.<ref>{{cite web |title=Raegan Beers Named an All-American by The Athletic |url=https://osubeavers.com/news/2024/3/7/womens-basketball-raegan-beers-named-an-all-american-by-the-athletic |publisher=Oregon State University Athletics |access-date=March 13, 2024 |date=March 7, 2024}}</ref> She helped lead Oregon State to its first Elite Eight since 2018, where they ultimately lost to [[South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball|South Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=staffreportsportland |date=2024-03-31 |title=Oregon State women's basketball's season ends at the hands of South Carolina in Elite Eight |url=https://portlandtribune.com/2024/03/31/oregon-state-womens-basketballs-season-ends-at-the-hands-of-south-carolina-in-elite-eight/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=The Portland Tribune |language=en}}</ref>
Beers entered the transfer portal at the end of the [[2023–24 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team|2023–24 season]], and committed to [[Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball|Oklahoma]] on April 29, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-29 |title=Oklahoma lands former Oregon State star Beers |url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/40051306/former-oregon-state-post-raegan-beers-commits-oklahoma |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref>
As a junior, Beers averaged 17.3 points, 9.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 1.2 blocks per game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bolin |first=Eric W. |title=Oklahoma's Raegan Beers earns All-American votes |url=https://soonerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/sooners/womens-basketball/2025/10/21/oklahoma-womens-basketball-raegan-beers-preseason-all-american/86823761007/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=Sooners Wire |language=en-US}}</ref> She had a season-high 30 points in back-to-back games against Arkansas and Alabama. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Aber |first=Ryan |title=Raegan Beers dominates Arkansas in OU women's basketball blowout for fifth straight win |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2025/02/23/oklahoma-arkansas-score-updates-womens-college-basketball-today-sooners/79820264007/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}}</ref> In the NCAA tournament, Beers had a season-high 18 rebounds against [[Florida Gulf Coast Eagles women's basketball|FGCU]] in the first round.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brunt |first=Cliff |date=2025-03-22 |title=Raegan Beers has 25 points, 18 rebounds to lead Oklahoma past FGCU 81-58 in March Madness |url=https://apnews.com/article/march-madness-fgcu-oklahoma-women-score-fc5fe1cf3078988340ed4b391d32571d |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> She scored 10 points and 10 rebounds in a Sweet Sixteen loss to [[UConn Huskies women's basketball|UConn]]. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Athletic |first=The |date=2025-03-28 |title=Beers delivers positive performance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/live-blogs/womens-march-madness-sweet-16-live-updates-scores-results/EqIQs76R8eD5/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=The Athletic |language=en-US}}</ref> Beers was on the first-team for All-SEC, and named consensus Honorable Mention for All-American. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Bolin |first=Eric W. |title=Oklahoma center Raegan Beers named Honorable Mention All-American |url=https://soonerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/sooners/womens-basketball/2025/03/19/oklahoma-womens-basketball-raegan-beers-all-american/82552013007/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=Sooners Wire |language=en-US}}</ref> She was also a first-team [[Academic All-America|Academic All-American]], with a 3.51 GPA in multidisciplinary studies. <ref>{{Cite web |title=2024-25 Academic All-America® Women's Basketball teams announced for all NCAA and NAIA divisions |url=https://academicallamerica.com/news/2025/4/16/2024-25-academic-all-america-womens-basketball-teams-announced-for-all-ncaa-and-naia-divisions.aspx |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=academicallamerica.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Career statistics == {| class="toccolours" style="font-size: 92%; white-space: nowrap;" |+ '''Legend''' |- | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | GP | Games played | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | GS | Games started | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | MPG | Minutes per game | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | FG% | [[Field goal (basketball)|Field goal]] percentage |- | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | 3P% | [[Three-point field goal|3-point field goal]] percentage | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | FT% | [[Free throw]] percentage | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | RPG | [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]] per game | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | APG | [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]] per game |- | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | SPG | [[Steal (basketball)|Steals]] per game | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | BPG | [[Block (basketball)|Blocks]] per game | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | TO | [[Turnover (basketball)|Turnovers]] per game | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | PPG | Points per game |- | style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | '''Bold''' | Career high | style="background-color: #cfecec; border: 1px solid black" | * | Led Division I |}
=== College === {{WNBA player statistics start|caption=Raegan Beers NCAA Statistics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/raegan-beers-1.html|title=Raegan Beers College Stats|publisher=[[Sports-Reference]]|accessdate=April 11, 2024}}</ref>}} |- | style="text-align:left;" | [[2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2022–23]] | style="text-align:left;" | [[2022–23 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team|Oregon State]] |31||6||24.4||.560||.125||'''.729'''||8.6||1.0||0.7||0.7||'''2.2'''||13.3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | [[2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2023–24]] | style="text-align:left;" | [[2023–24 Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team|Oregon State]] |31||31||'''28.0'''||bgcolor=#d3d3d3|'''.664'''°||.000||.627||'''10.3'''||'''1.6'''||'''1.2'''||'''1.3'''||2.4||'''17.5''' |- | style="text-align:left;" | [[2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2024–25]] | style="text-align:left;" | [[2024–25 Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball team|Oklahoma]] |'''33'''||'''33'''||22.4||.633||'''.364'''||.698||9.4||1.1||0.6||1.2||2.8||17.3 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | '''Career''' |95||70||24.9||.624||.302||.685||9.4||1.2||0.8||1.1||2.4||16.0 {{s-end}}
== National team career == Beers played in the [[2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup]] and won a gold medal, averaging 8.1 points with a team-high 5.7 rebounds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Raegan Beers |url=https://www.usab.com/players/raegan-beers |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=USA Basketball |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Beers is a [[Christianity|Christian]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mercer |first1=Kevin |title=Star Raegan Beers leads Oregon State in Sweet 16, strives 'to be with God' |url=https://sportsspectrum.com/sport/basketball/2024/03/28/raegan-beers-oregon-state-strives-be-with-god/ |website=Sports Spectrum |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref> Beers' father, Ike, is a police [[sergeant]] for the city of [[Lakewood, Colorado]]. Her older brother, Rocky, has played [[college football]] for [[Air Force Falcons football|Air Force]] and [[FIU Panthers football|FIU]], and her younger brother, Rowdy, also plays football for FIU.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Daschel |first1=Nick |title=Oregon State's Raegan Beers, toughened by football brothers, brings thunder to Pac-12 women's basketball |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/01/oregon-states-raegan-beers-toughened-by-football-brothers-brings-thunder-to-pac-12-womens-basketball.html |website=[[The Oregonian]] |access-date=March 13, 2024 |date=January 25, 2023}}</ref> Her sister, Rylie, plays basketball for [[Belmont Bruins women's basketball|Belmont]]; the two played each other in Oklahoma's season opener in 2025. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Sulley |first=Colton |title=Inside Raegan Beers, sister Rylie's reunion during OU basketball opener vs Belmont |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2025/11/03/oklahoma-belmont-score-womens-college-basketball-raegan-beers-stats-sister-rylie/87074843007/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}}</ref> In October 2025, Beers attended the [[Turning Point USA|Turning Point]] Tour with teammate [[Payton Verhulst]], stating that the event aligned with her personal beliefs. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Shaffer |first=Madeline Hoffmann, Keaton |date=2025-10-16 |title=Oklahoma politicians, OU athletes, students attend ‘The Turning Point Tour’ at Lloyd Noble Center |url=https://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-turning-point-usa-who-attended/article_8b7e5793-c5b1-460d-a3b7-d85f70604b7c.html |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=OU Daily |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://osubeavers.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/raegan-beers/9880 Oregon State Beavers bio] *[https://soonersports.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/raegan-beers/19512 Oklahoma Sooners bio]
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