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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

2 Kaylene Smikle

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Position G
  • Major Sociology
  • Hometown Bay Shore, NY
  • High School Westtown
  • Prev School Rutgers
  • Instagram kaylene.smikle
  • Twitter kaylene_smikle
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Biography

  • 2025 All-Big Ten First Team (Media), Second Team (Coaches)
  • 2023 All-Big Ten Second Team (Coaches & Media) 
  • 2023 Big Ten All-Freshman Team (Coaches & Media) 
  • Big Ten Player of the Week (Jan. 6, 2025)
  • 3X Big Ten Freshman of the Week
As a Junior (2024-25):
  • All Big Ten First Team (media); Second Team (coaches)
  • Big Ten Player of the Week (1/6/25, 2/9/25)
  • Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll (12/23/24)
  • Scored in double figures in 30 of 33 games
  • Led Terps with 20.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 19-21 from the free throw line in three NCAA Tournament games
  • Scored 11 of the Terps' first 15 points and finished with 20 vs. Coppin State
  • Scored 20+ points in  career-best streak of 5 games (11/7/24-11/24/24)
  • Named to Navy Classic All-Tournament Team
  • Reached 1,000 career points with 21 vs. William & Mary, her 58th career game
  • Led Terps with season-high 26 points, 9 in fourth quarter, and 6 steals in win at No. 23 Iowa
  • Went 13-18 from the field for career-high 36 points with 8 rebounds in win at Washington
  • Added 16 points with 6 rebounds in win at Indiana
  • Led Terps with 26 points, 15 in second half and 5 in OT, in win over No. 12 Ohio State
  • Scored 18 of her 21 points in second half of NCAA First Round win over Norfolk State
  • Scored 24 points with 7 rebounds and 3 steals in NCAA Second Round win over #21 Alabama
  • Led Terps with 17 points in NCAA Sweet Sixteen vs. #2 South Carolina

Before Maryland:
  • 2023 All-Big Ten Second Team at Rutgers
  • 2023 All-Big Ten Freshman Team at Rutgers
  • Averaged 17.3 points and 4.7 rebounds in 47 games played at Rutgers over the past two seasons
  • Played in just 15 games this past season
  • As a freshman in 2022-23, was No. 5 in the Big Ten in scoring with 17.9 points per game in addition to averaging 19.5 points in Big Ten play
  • Became Rutgers' all-time leading freshman scorer in program history, ending the season with 573 points
  • A four-star recruit and the No. 11 ranked wing in the nation according to espnW and the No. 64 overall recruit in the country coming out of high school
The Smikle File…
  • Parents are Ruthmila and Luis Smikle
  • Sociology major

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2

    2024-25Junior

    Guard
    6'0"
    2
  • 2

    2025-26Senior

    Guard
    6'0"
    2