The Seattle Storm announced on Apr. 11 the signing of free agents Zia Cooke and Mackenzie Holmes, both returning to the team after playing during the 2025 season. The terms of their contracts were not disclosed in accordance with team policy.
Cooke, a guard standing at five feet nine inches, began the previous season with the Storm before being traded to the Washington Mystics as part of an August transaction that brought Brittney Sykes to Seattle. She later rejoined the Storm after being picked up from waivers at the end of August. During her time in the 2025 regular season, Cooke averaged ten minutes per game and achieved a career-high three-point shooting percentage of 39.5 percent. She also reached milestones by scoring her 300th career point and recording her 50th career assist. Cooke was selected tenth overall in the 2023 draft and previously won a national championship with South Carolina in 2022.
Holmes was signed as a free agent last June after initially being released following training camp earlier that year. Selected by Seattle as the twenty-sixth pick in the third round of the 2024 Women’s National Basketball Association Draft, Holmes missed that entire season due to knee surgery but appeared in ten games during her rookie campaign in 2025, averaging nearly six minutes per game. As an Indiana University graduate, she finished her college career as Indiana’s all-time leading scorer with over two thousand five hundred points and set records for field goals made, field goal percentage, and total wins. Holmes received eight All-American selections across five seasons at Indiana and earned multiple honors during her final collegiate year.
The return of both players adds depth to Seattle’s roster ahead of their upcoming campaign.
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