Calgary’s Yvonne Ejim has been named the 2024 Becky Hammon Participant of the 12 months, awarded to the highest mid-major participant in NCAA Division 1 girls’s basketball.
Ejim, a senior ahead with Gonzaga, averaged 19.7 factors, 8.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.0 blocks in 34 video games with the Bulldogs this season en path to being named West Coast Convention (WCC) Participant of the 12 months and Defensive Participant of the 12 months.
She shot 60.1 per cent from the sector and 81.5 per cent from the free-throw line.
Ejim led the Bulldogs to the Candy 16 spherical of the ladies’s NCAA championship event, the place she had a team-high 14 factors in Gonzaga’s 69-47 loss to Texas.
The award named for former faculty and WNBA star and present Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon was first awarded in 2020.
To be eligible for the award, gamers should compete in one of many 26 conferences deemed to be “mid-major.” Gamers in conferences which can be thought-about high-major (ACC, Large 12, Large East, Large Ten, Pac-12, and SEC) are ineligible.
Ejim just lately introduced she is going to use her fifth 12 months of school eligibility to return to Gonzaga subsequent season.
