Ex-WNBA Guard Pleads Not Guilty to Strangling Former Partner

Shoni Schimmel #23 of the Louisville Cardinals at New Orleans Arena, in New Orleans, La., on April 9, 2013. Stacy Revere/Getty Images

PORTLAND, Ore.—Former WNBA player Shoni Schimmel was arrested Friday and pleaded not guilty to assaulting a former partner on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.

Schimmel, 29, has been charged with assault by strangulation of an intimate dating partner and assault resulting in substantial bodily injury, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.