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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

6 Saylor Poffenbarger

  • Height 6-2
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Position G
  • Major Communication
  • Hometown Middletown, MD
  • High School Middletown
  • Prev School UConn/Arkansas
  • Instagram saylor.poff
  • Twitter saylorpoff
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Biography

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  • 2023 All-SEC Freshman Team
  • 5X SEC Freshman of the Week
  • Cheryl Miller Award Watch List
As a junior (2024-25):
  • Cheryl Miller Award Watch List
  • Scored in double figures in 12 games with 5 double-doubles 
  • Went 4-7 from outside the arc for 12 points with 9 rebounds vs. Towson
  • Notched back-to-back double-doubles in the Navy Classic
  • Hit a clutch 3 with under 5:00 to go in a tie game to seal win over #19 Michigan State
  • Grabbed season-high 17 rebounds vs. #4 USC
  • Led Terps with 18 points vs. #1 UCLA
  • Scored 14 of her 16 points in the first half in win at Northwestern
  • Missed 2 games due to lower leg injury suffered at Northwestern

Before Maryland:
  • 2023 All-SEC Freshman Team at Arkansas
  • Five-time SEC Freshman of the Week at Arkansas
  • Set the Arkansas record for defensive rebounds (225) in 2023-24
  • Started in 30 games in 2023-24 and led the team in rebounds per game (11.2), total defensive rebounds (283) and averaged 10.2 points
  • Finished her redshirt sophomore year with 14 double-figure scoring games, 19 double-digit rebound games, nine double-doubles and two 20-point games
  • As a freshman in 2022-23, led the team in rebounds (6.9), as well as blocks (40)
  • Finished freshman season with with 13 double-digit scoring games, nine 10+ rebounding contests, five 5+ assist games and four double-doubles
  • No. 30 overall player coming out of high school
The Poffenbarger File: 
  • Parents are William and Amy Poffenbarger and dad owns the Fordham Lee Distillery in her hometown
  • Has three siblings - Reese, Brittin and Higgins and a brother, Fordham, that passed
  • Brother, Reese, plays football at Miami and mom, Amy, played basketball at Missouri
  • Wears 6 because it was her brother, Fordham's, birth month and he is her biggest inspiration
  • Wants to play basketball as long as she can and then work at her dad's distillery
  • Nickname is Sassy
  • Favorite color is pink and she loves sharks
  • Sociology major

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2024-25Redshirt Junior

    Guard
    6'2"
    6
  • 6

    2025-26Redshirt Senior

    Guard
    6'2"
    6