From Stewie to CC: Every Active WNBA Signature Basketball-Sneaker Line
Yeah, yeah – the NBA is packed with signature sneakers, and the Air Jordan reigns supreme. But as the WNBA can’t-stop-won’t-stop producing generational talent, brands have clocked that women hoopers aren’t afterthought marketing tools – they’re high-value athletes in their own right, among the highest-growth brand ambassadors in performance footwear… and they’re claiming their place in setting the cultural agenda.
Women’s basketball shoe lines are receiving top-tier engineering and skill-geared setups, not to mention real marketing muscle. Coupled with a roaring new wave of young women players who now see professional basketball as a viable and even lucrative career, the hoops footwear market is evolving to illuminate the best of the WNBA.
If you want a primer, check out our feature on the history of women's signature basketball sneakers – then keep on scrollin’ to see the signature lines of the athletes active in the WNBA right now, from established ambassadors like Sabrina Ionescu to ascending stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.
Breanna Stewart (PUMA, 2022–)
As the 2016 WNBA draft’s overall first pick, Breanna Stewart didn’t waste a single split second making waves across the hoops scene, repping the Seattle Storm alongside icon of the game Sue Bird (who retired from the league in 2022). Stacking up accolades including Rookie of the Year, Olympic gold, and Finals MVP awards in the Storm’s two championship victories (2018 and 2020), Stewart finished up her tenure with Seattle in 2022 – but before her move to New York Liberty, she dropped the PUMA Stewie 1.
Stewart’s first signature sneaker delivered a ‘disruptive upper construction’ which was all about the dualities of the athlete’s game and personality. It united engineered mesh in multi-zoned layers for targeted support and comfort, and PUMA’s NITRO Foam tech for lightweight but on-point responsiveness. The moulded heel counter’s aesthetic combined flames and a scar design to salute Stewart’s powering through two Achilles surgeries, while the outsole’s traction pattern featured co-branded logos.
May 2023 produced the PUMA Stewie 2, whose design improved the upper’s durability with PWRTAPE overlays in high-pressure areas of the mesh, while the comfy and responsive NITRO Foam cushioning returned. Twelve months on, Stewie and the Big Cat delivered the third in the signature line, which featured PUMA’s first-ever removable drop-in midsole – allowing the foot to sit flush atop the foam for enhanced court-feel and close-to-ground control. (Read our interview with Stewart all about the drop, right here.)
By the time the Stewie 4 came around in April 2025, Breanna had won her third WNBA championship – her first with new team, the New York Liberty – and the new shoe levelled up to match. It presented fresh tooling and construction from top to toe, presenting a base layer reinforced with a shrouded-upper overlay, which attached with strings at the heel. The incrementally updated Stewie 5 dropped in 2026, with PUMA’s NITRO Foam tech intact.
If the pattern continues, we should get the Stewie 6 in 2027 – and with Stewart contracted to ball with the New York Lliberty through to the end of 2028’s WNBA season, the Stewie 7 is likely in the pipeline too.
Sabrina Ionescu (Nike, 2023–)
In 2023, Sabrina Ionescu became the second woman on the then-current Nike Basketball roster with a signature shoe – joining Elena Delle Donne, whose Nike Air Deldon had dropped the year before. (Donne retired from the WNBA in April 2025.) The feat came just three years after Ionescu had signed with the New York Liberty as the top overall draft pick in 2020, and in tandem, announced her multi-year partnership with Nike.
Landing in September of ‘23, the Nike Sabrina 1 was built for hoopers who harness acceleration in their playing style, with a low cut and a multi-layered mesh upper along with Flywire cables to provide lockdown. It featured full-length React cushioning paired with a Zoom Air until in the forefoot for a cushy ride and supreme responsiveness, while its midfoot shank plate gave excellent stability. Its forefoot embroidery design drew from Romanian art and architecture, and Ionescu’s authoritative ‘S’ logo was stamped into the tongue.
The Sabrina 2 arrived in June of 2024, carrying the very first Cushlon 3.0 foam midsole ever incorporated into a Nike basketball shoe and weighing 28 grams lighter than its predecessor – and it was such a smash, reports clock it as the second-most popular model worn on-court during the NBA’s 2024-25 season.
The momentum continued with mid-2025’s Sabrina 3, which is where the series really turned up the gas. Spec-wise, it retained the 2’s responsive cushioning but updated the midfoot cable system for better strength, support and containment – a superlative all-rounder which we ranked among our top performance kicks of the year. Culture-wise, it exploded across league lines to become a favourite for guards and wings playing in both the men’s and women’s leagues, famously championed by Golden State Warrior star Steph Curry. The ‘Gamer’ colourway celebrated Ionescu’s featuring position both in-game and on the cover of 2K27, the black-and-blue Duke PE landed specifically for the Blue Devils women's basketball team, and in April 2026, the model received a ‘What The’ treatment, mashing up palettes from across Ionescu’s line. Beyond the hardwood, there was no going past the wild Grateful Dead x Ducks mashup that was this year’s Sabrina 3 baseball cleat.
The Sabrina 4 was announced in April 2026 and dropped three months later, and while the on-court stats are still building, the model’s upgraded build has set it up to be another top choice with players in both the WNBA and NBA. Featuring a fresh TPU FlyPlate designed with sprinters’ starting-block takeoffs in mind, the plate works together with the forefoot Air Zoom unit and CushIon 2.0 midsole to supply elite support and mountain-goat stability.
Angel Reese (Reebok, 2025–)
Take it from Angel Reese: Reebok don’t hand out signature sneaker lines to just anyone. With a list of ambassadors markedly short – though of course it includes legends Shaquille O’Neale and Allan Iverson – Reebok made the decision to enfold Reese into its signature stable in 2024. It was massive news, marking Reese as only the second player the ‘Bok had ever tapped for the privilege in WNBA history, after Rebecca Lobo in 1997.
The Reebok Angel Reese 1 landed in July 2025, during Reese’s second year of professional basketball, repping the Chicago Sky. The model delivered an audacious fusion of expressive design and innovative tech, which was all about reflecting Angel's on-court power and off-court presence. It featured an exoskeleton upper with moulded TPU and ventilated mesh panels, and a midsole delivering Reebok’s ERS technology with strategically-placed pods of nitrogen-infused SuperFloat foam. ‘Just a kid from Baltimore, turning dreams into reality and hoping I can inspire young women and men everywhere to do the same,’ Reese posted upon the model’s debut. ‘The most brilliant diamonds take pressure, polish, and time. Reebok is back – and the diamonds are shining brighter than ever.’
While Reese has since moved from Chicago to the Atlanta Dream (spending the most recent season with her new team), her contract with Reebok was officially extended into a multi-year deal in 2026 – so expect to see a follow-up sneaker soon.
A’ja Wilson (Nike, 2025–)
For A’ja Wilson, 2025 was a year of incessant power-ups. After eight seasons in the league (she was drafted first overall by the Las Vegas Aces in 2018), that single year saw her become the first player to win a Championship, Finals MVP, league MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, and scoring title all in one season – and she launched her first signature sneak, the Nike A’One.
Released in May, the shoe was designed with Wilson’s playing style front and centre of the blueprint, delivering an equilibrium of traction, support and cushioning. Its Cushlon ST2 foam was set atop a sense base to provide both responsiveness and comfort, and the breathable mesh upper featured a pile of personal design touches, including multiple salutes to the athlete’s nearest and dearest.
Wilson kept the wordplay rolling with this year’s A’Two, announced in March and arriving in May. This second in her signature line presented a performance upgrade to kick her hardwood domination up a notch, adding a Nike Air Zoom unit to the forefoot for responsiveness, and a midfoot shank to keep torsional movement in check.
Caitlin Clark (Nike, 2026–)
The moment Caitlin Clark was drafted in April 2024 – as number one overall pick, snapped up by the Indiana Fever – it was reported the Iowan talent would shortly sign an eight-year, $28 million contract with Nike. And so the richest deal ever negotiated for a women’s hooper indeed came to pass, following apparently ferocious jostling between the Swoosh, adidas, Under Armour and PUMA. The contract included a signature shoe, but Clark would spend at least two years rocking Kobe Protro models on the hardwood before announcing the Caitlin 1 in July 2026, due to drop October 1 this year. The star has been teasing colourways here and there – check ’em out above.