Phoenix Mercury guard Briann January today was granted the WNBA Cares Neighborhood Help Honor presented by State Farm for the month of May, the league has introduced. In acknowledgment for her initiatives, State Ranch will give away $5, 000 to the Odyssey Young People Movement, a Spokane-based company chosen by January, that acts as a resource for LGBTQ+ young people."Community outreach is necessary to me since offering others helps us grow independently and jointly while enhancing our connectedness and broadening our effect, " said January. "I intend to do anything that I can do to reveal a person that I have been in their shoes or that I understand their struggle. That connection can assist change someone's life or provide that encouragement that they need. I am so fortunate to be able to utilize my setting as a WNBA player to assist develop those connections and provide back to others."Throughout the month of May, January hung out working with at-risk ladies, LGBTQ+ foster home residences, and low-income families in the Phoenix metro area. During the Mercury's look at Fry's Food Stores, the Arizona State grad partnered with regional charitable Conserve the Family members to give a deserving household with a shopping spree for grocery stores and house products. After taking the family members purchasing, January invested time with followers, signing autographs and taking to the Mercury's home opener on May 31 Rebecca Allen Jersey, January took a seat to consult with neighborhood senior high school basketball groups that took part in the Mercury's Secondary school Hoops excursion throughout the WNBA offseason. In addition, she teamed with officers from the Phoenix metro Police Department to aid at a basketball camp for at-risk ladies. There, January talked to attendees concerning the value of attending university and graduating, and supplied tickets to the home opener to everyone in attendance at the also hung around with citizens from a LGBTQ+ foster home, providing them with tickets and postgame passes to the Mercury's yearly satisfaction video game. Adhering to the video game, she hung around speaking with the team regarding her very own personal trip maturing. She shared how she pertained to accept and love herself as the specific she was, and urged them to do the notes the 3rd time January been granted the league's Community Assist Honor and marks the third successive season a Mercury player has been bestowed the coming within one win of trip to the WNBA Finals, the Phoenix Mercury return in 2019 looking for a league-record tying 4th WNBA title. Led by the All-Star trio of Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner and DeWanna Bonner, Phoenix metro aims to continue its title mission on June 28 versus Indiana. Tickets for the Mercury's next home game on Friday, June 28 versus the Indiana Fever, and the remaining 13 home games, at Chatting Stick Hotel Arena can be acquired by calling 602.252. WNBA or by seeing.