Source: Indiana Fever adding forward Katie Lou Samuelson in free agency

Free agency is underway in the WNBA and the Fever are adding another winner to the roster.

Katie Lou Samuelson spent the 2022 season with the LA Sparks, then sat out last season due to the birth of her child. (Photo: NBAE)

The Indiana Fever have reached agreement with forward Katie Lou Samuelson on a free-agent deal, a league source confirmed to Fieldhouse Files.

The team is building around Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark, assuming the sharpshooter leaves Iowa and enters her name in the WNBA draft.

The Fever hold the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA Draft for the second consecutive year.

Samuelson, 26, sat out the 2023 season to have her first child. In 2022 with the LA Sparks, she started in 29 of 32 games and averaged a career-high 9.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.

She is a good fit for this roster and for what general manger Lin Dunn is building.

More on Samuelson:

• 6-foot-3 forward who shoots 35% from beyond the arc.

• She’s a winner. Played at UConn and is in the USA Basketball system.

• She has an endorsement deal with PUMA.

• She joined the Vanderbilt women’s basketball program last January as the director of player development for women's basketball.

• Married to Devin Cannady, who's from Mishawaka and played at Marian High School, then Princeton University. He’s currently playing for the Birmingham Squadron, the G League affiliate team for the New Orleans Pelicans.

• Devin's brother, Deric, is a junior at Cathedral.

Howard Megdal of TheNextHoops first reported the news.

Already in free agency, the Fever added forward Damiris Dantas, the 12th overall pick in 2012 taken by the Minnesota Lynx.

Last season in Minneapolis, she averaged 5.1 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game while starting in all 15 games that she played.