Inside the Fever's 2025 roster: How Indiana used offseason to build contender around Caitlin Clark

In 2024, Caitlin Clark helped the Indiana Fever end an eight-year postseason drought. One year later, their sights are set much higher.

As an encore to her rookie season, Clark will reprise her role alongside All-Star teammates Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell. This season, the trio has a new head coach and a host of new teammates capable of taking the team from playoff hopeful to a title contender.

It should not come as much of a surprise that Indiana was a premier destination this offseason. With an improved roster, the Fever will now look to prove themselves among the elite teams in the league.

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Here's a look inside Indiana's team for the 2025 season and how it was built.

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Indiana Fever 2025 roster

The Fever have assembled a roster that checks all the boxes of a team that can succeed around Clark, Boston, and Mitchell.

Among notable new acquisitions are DeWanna Bonner and Sophie Cunningham on the wing and Natasha Howard and Brianna Turner on the interior. Two-time WNBA champion Sydney Colson adds depth at the lead guard position, and, as one of the league's brightest personalities, she will be a major culture driver in the locker room.

Bonner is one of the most respected veterans in the league and for good reason. She brings championship experience and is coming off a season in which she averaged 15.0 points and 6.0 rebounds while earning a sixth WNBA All-Star selection. 

Cunningham is a career 37.2 percent 3-point shooter and can spread the floor while benefiting from the playmaking of Clark and Boston.

After being selected No. 5 overall by the Fever in 2014, Howard returns to where her career began. Last season in Dallas, she averaged 17.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 2.9 assists per game, making her another interior presence who can score, rebound, and be a playmaker.

Turner and Makayla Timpson add much-needed interior depth. Timpson is one to watch, as her athleticism gives her the ability to run the floor and get easy buckets from Clark's passes.

As for returning players outside of the All-Stars, Lexie Hull is primed for a big year after spending her offseason playing in Unrivaled. She's another floor spacer who shot a whopping 47.1 percent from distance in 2024, a figure she'll look to legitimize with another potent year in 2025.

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Indiana Fever coaches

In the spirit of homecomings, Indiana tabbed one of its own by hiring Stephanie White as head coach.

White, a native of West Lebanon, Ind., was a standout at Purdue who began her WNBA career with the Fever and previously coached the franchise from 2015 through 2016. After winning a WNBA title in Indiana as an assistant in 2012, White now looks to lead the team to the promised land as a head coach.

White comes to Indiana after amassing a 55-25 record over two seasons as Connecticut's head coach. She brings an element of toughness and a much-needed defensive mentality to the Fever.

Bonner, who played for White in Connecticut, will also play an important role as a coach on the court as she has a greater understanding of the terminology and strategies White will look to implement.

Among White's assistants are a pair of former Fever players in Briann January and Karima Christmas-Kelly.