Doogan, Ullstrom Named to 2026 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Preseason Watch Checklist

RICHMOND, Va. — University of Richmond girls’s basketball standouts Maggie Doogan and Rachel Ullstrom have been named to the preseason watch listing for the 2026 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award offered by Her Hoop Stats, the group introduced Wednesday.

Doogan, a senior ahead, returns because the reigning Atlantic 10 Player of the Year after averaging 17.0 factors, 7.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.2 steals per sport final season. She shot 55.5 % from the sector and 40.6 % from three-point vary, rating among the many high three within the league in scoring and field-goal proportion. The A-10 Preseason First Team choose was one in every of simply 4 Spiders ever to eclipse 1,000 profession factors and 500 rebounds in three seasons.

Doogan posted 12 video games of 20 or extra factors, together with a career-best 37 factors towards George Mason. The Broomall, Pa. native, capped her breakout junior marketing campaign with 30 factors and 15 rebounds towards Georgia Tech for this system’s first NCAA Tournament win earlier than including 27 factors towards top-seeded UCLA within the Second Round.

Ullstrom, an Auburn, Mass. native, joins Doogan on the preseason listing after incomes Atlantic 10 First Team honors in 2025, and All-A-10 Preseason First Team honors this season. She averaged 15.3 factors whereas capturing 53.8 % from the sector, 42.3 % from three and 84.9 % on the line. Ullstrom grew to become simply the eleventh Spider to succeed in 1,000 profession factors and set the Richmond single-game file with 11 three-pointers in a 35-point efficiency towards Oakland. 

She scored in double figures in 27 video games, together with seven video games of 20 or extra factors, and ranked third within the league in three-point proportion. A USA Basketball 3×3 standout this summer time, Ullstrom additionally helped the United States seize the 2025 Nations League Americas title in Chile.

Her Hoop Stats acknowledged 25 student-athletes representing 19 groups and 12 conferences on this 12 months’s preseason listing. Doogan and Ullstrom are amongst 5 Atlantic 10 gamers to earn a spot, marking the league’s most ever on a single preseason listing.

The Becky Hammon Award, first offered in 2020, honors the highest mid-major participant in NCAA Division I girls’s basketball. The midseason watch listing of 15 gamers might be launched in January, adopted by semifinalists in February and finalists in March, with the winner introduced through the NCAA Women’s Final Four.

Richmond opens the 2025-26 season Nov. 4 towards Mount St. Mary’s contained in the Robins Center. Tipoff is scheduled for six p.m. on ESPN+.

Single-game and season tickets can be found now at spides.us/WBBTIX2526 or by calling 1-877-SPIDER-1 for extra ticket info.

 

About the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award

Named after WNBA legend and present Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon, the award honors the nation’s high mid-major girls’s basketball participant every season. Players competing in 26 eligible conferences are thought-about, excluding these from the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, and SEC.

About Her Hoop Stats

Founded in 2017, Her Hoop Stats is devoted to advancing girls’s basketball by analytics and storytelling. The group offers statistical protection, rankings, and award recognition at each degree of the sport.