Garzon Named to Cheryl Miller Award Watch List

SPRINGFIELD, MA — Senior Yarden Garzon of the ten^th-ranked Maryland ladies’s basketball workforce was named to the Cheryl Miller Award Watch List Wednesday by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
 
The Cheryl Miller Award, in its ninth 12 months, honors the highest small forwards in ladies’s Division I ladies’s faculty basketball. It is called after the three-time Naismith Player of the Year and Class of 1995 Hall of Famer.
 
Garzon is a Preseason All-Big Ten honoree. Garzon involves College Park after enjoying three seasons at Indiana, the place she earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors. Garzon averaged 14.4 factors, 5.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists per sport final 12 months because the Hoosiers’ main scorer. She led the Big Ten in three-pointers made (88) and was second within the league in three-point proportion (40.7%). At Indiana, she was this system’s all-time chief in three pointers made (220) and three level proportion (42.6%) in three years.
 
The Terrapins have been predicted to complete No. 2 within the Big Ten, behind simply UCLA. 
 
Maryland returns All-Big Ten honorees Kaylene Smikle, Bri McDaniel and starter Saylor Poffenbarger. 

Head coach Brenda Frese and her workers signed two transfers in Garzon and 2025 ACC Tournament Most Outstanding Player Oluchi Okananwa (Duke). The Terrapins additionally welcome freshmen Lea Bartelme, Addi Mack, Rainey Welson, Nicole Fritea and Marya Boiko to the roster.

 

The Terrapins will host Division II Point Park Thursday at 6 p.m. on the XFINITY Center. Admission is free and the sport will likely be streamed on B1G+.

 

Maryland will formally open the season Monday, Nov. 3 with a 7 p.m. matchup vs. Loyola (Md.) on the XFINITY Center. Tickets for Monday’s sport can be found here and it is going to be streamed on B1G+.

 

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