There’s a brand new level guard within the bayou and it’s Toronto’s personal Shayeann Day-Wilson.
Day-Wilson, 20, is transferring from Miami College to LSU forward of her senior season, the crew introduced on Wednesday.
She spent one season in South Florida with the Hurricanes, averaging 11.9 factors, 2.7 rebounds and three.5 assists.
Previous to that, Day-Wilson spent two years at Duke College. Her rookie marketing campaign stays probably the most spectacular collegiate season of her profession up to now, as she put up 12.7 factors per recreation to go together with three rebounds and three.7 assists, incomes the ACC Freshman of the 12 months award consequently.
A Biosteel All-Canadian, Day-Wilson received two medals with Canada’s U23 girls’s nationwide crew at GLOBL JAM, a gold in 2022 and a silver in 2023. In line with ESPN HoopGurlz, she was the highest Canadian guard within the class of 2021.
Main motivation behind her choice to depart Duke for Miami was the plethora of Canadians on the Hurricanes roster, as she joins Lemyah Hilton, Lashae Dwyer, Sophia Zulich, and highschool teammate Latasha Lattimore. Now, she’ll be heading to a totally new atmosphere with main title aspirations and never as many acquainted faces.
Day-Wilson shall be taking part in for an LSU crew that’s solely two years faraway from a nationwide title. They entered this yr’s March Insanity match as a three-seed earlier than dropping to eventual runner-ups Iowa and Caitlin Clark within the Elite Eight. In the meantime, Miami did not make the match after a 19-12 season.
The 5-foot-6 guard will look to assist head coach Kim Mulkey usher in a brand new period, one with out star ahead Angel Reese, who went seventh total on this yr’s WNBA draft.
LSU wasn’t carried out there as additionally they introduced the additions of Kailyn Gilbert and Mjracle Sheppard on Wednesday as properly.
