2023-24 Women's Basketball Roster
Biography
· Academic All-Big Ten (2023, 2024)
· All-SEC Second Team (2021)
· All-SEC Freshman Team (2020)
· SEC Player of the Week (1/19/21)
· SEC Freshman of the Week (2/18/20)
As a Graduate (2023-24)
- Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors
- Suffered season-ending knee injury in second quarter vs. Rutgers (Feb. 21)
- Missed 5 games in Nov-Dec with lower body injury
- Led Terps with 25 points, her most as a Terp, off 11-17 shooting, 3 threes at Nebraska
- Has scored in double figures in 9 games
- Added 15 points in win at Illinois
As a Senior (2022-23)…
· Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors
· Led the Terps with 8 boards in season opener at George Mason
· Reached 1,000 career points with 8 in win at No. 7 Notre Dame, her 70th career game
· Scored season-best 14 points, 10 in the third quarter, in win over Minnesota
· Chipped in 14 points, 7 in fourth quarter push to seal win over #13 Michigan
· Added 10 points in win at Northwestern
· Scored season-high 19 points with 5 boards in win over #6 Iowa
· Hit 2 clutch three-pointers and grabbed 4 boards to reach 500 career rebounds in win at #16 Ohio State (2/24/23)
· Added 11 points with 4 boards off the bench in Big Ten Quarterfinals win (3/3/23)
· Hit 2 big threes and finished with 12 points in Sweet 16 win over No. 10 Notre Dame
As a Junior (2021-22)…
· Averaged 12.5 points, 5.6 rebounds in 14 games for the Gators
· Played in 14 games
· Scored in double figures in nine games
As a Sophomore (2020-21)…
- Started in all 29 games for the Gators and led team in scoring with 19.4 points per game
- Also averaged 6.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists and shot 41% from the field (136-336)
- Before suffering a foot injury (2/15/21), finished with the fourth-highest points per game average ever by a Gator (19.4)
- Averaged 21.8 points per game in SEC play, which was No. 2 in the league
- Scored 20+ points in nine of 18 games played
- Led the Gators in scoring 13 times, notching the second highest rebounds per game average on team (6.5).
- Collected four double-doubles and scored in double figures in 17 of her 18 games played.
- Poured in a career-best 41 points at Arkansas (1/14/21) - the fourth-most ever by a Florida player and the most by a sophomore in program history.
- Tabbed SEC Player of the Week on Jan. 19.
As a Freshman (2019-20)…
- Averaged 15.0 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game as a freshman
- Named to All-SEC Freshman Team
- Double figures in 26 of 29 games played; led team in scoring 16 times
- Led SEC in minutes played (34.7)
- Scored 19 or more points in eight games and 20 or more in five contests
- After averaging 20.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists and leading the Gators to wins over Ole Miss and Mizzou, Lavender Briggs was named SEC Freshman of the Week on Feb. 18
The Briggs File
- Finished her senior season with averages of 32.2 points (a state record) and 12.5 rebounds per game.
- Became the first Florida women’s basketball player ever to play in the Jordan Brand Classic (2019).
- Member of the 2018-19 All-USA Utah First Team.
- Set the state record for most points scored in a single season, finishing with 683 in the 2018-19 campaign.
- Her 1,908 career points scored were the second most in state history, trailing just Julie Krommenhoek's 2,384.
- Broke the state of Utah's record of points scored in a single game (53) which included a 32-point half which is also a state record.
- 2019 McDonald's All-American Game nominee.
- Guided Provo to a trip to the Class 5A state quarterfinals in 2019.
- Ranked No. 14 in terms of guards and was the No. 48 overall prospect in ESPN’s 2019 rankings.
- Following her junior season, she was tabbed as the All-Valley Defensive Player of the Year, All-Region MVP Region 8 and USA Today First-Team Utah honors.
- Averaged 25.1 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.4 steals per game as a junior.
- Two-time First-Team 4A All-State performer receiving the honor in 2017 and 2018.
- Participant in the 2018 U17 U.S National Team trials.
- Played two seasons at Provo High School, finishing with 1,057 in just 37 games played.
- Played her first two seasons of high school ball at Mountain View High School.
- Born in Newburgh, N.Y. and lived there before moving to Utah at age 7.
- Was coached by her mom and often played up several grade levels growing up
- Earned her degree in sociology and working on a graduate degree in management studies
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2023-24Graduate Student
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6'1"