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2016-17 Women's Basketball Roster

13 Paige Young

  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Berlin
  • Hometown Berlin, Conn.

Biography

Career-Highs
Points:
19 (12/8/16 at Westfield St.)
Rebounds: 19 (12/8/16 at Westfield St.)
Assists: 4 (12/6/16 vs. Nichols)

2016-17 (Senior Year): All-CCC Third Team ... CCC Player of the Week (Nov. 21) ... WNE Student-Athlete of the Week (Nov. 21) 
2015-16 (Junior Year): Appeared in 12 games, averaging 2.3 points, and 2 rebounds. Made her season debut against Wentworth on 1/5 after returning from injury, grabbing a rebound in two minutes of action...finished with four rebounds, two points and a block in five minutes at Nichols (1/7)...posted season-highs in both points (11) and rebounds (9) in an 85-50 win over Curry (1/19).

2014-15 (Sophomore Year): Appeared in 22 of 28 games, making two starts...averaged 2.7 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 12.7 minutes per game...started the first two games of the season...shot 4-of-9 from the field and 6-of-8 from the charity stripe en route to a career-high 14 points in the season-opener against Union (11/15), while also grabbing seven rebounds...had back-to-back six rebound games against Wentworth (2/11) and at Eastern Nazarene (2/14)...matched a season-high with 23 minutes in the CCC Quarterfinals against Eastern Nazarene, totaling six points and seven rebounds (2/24).

2013-14 (Freshman Year): A solid contributor in her first season, playing in all 25 games and starting in four of them...had a total of 89 points, 90 rebounds, 17 assists and 16 steals...on Feb. 1, she recorded her first career double-double scoring 10 points and bringing in 14 rebounds against Roger Williams...grabbed 10 rebounds against Curry to start back-to-back games in double-digits...made collegiate debut on Nov. 15 at Skidmore...had three steals in a game three times...netted a career-high 11 points off the bench in the season finale at Endicott in the Commonwealth Coast Conference Quarterfinals.


High School: Four-year letterwinner in both basketball and cross country at Berlin...served as a basketball team captain for her senior year...named all-conference...a three-time all-conference runner who also received all-star honors from the New Britain Herald...played travel basketball for the Connecticut Starters... graduated in 2013.

Personal: Born Paige Elizabeth Young on Jan. 25, 1995 in Berlin, Conn....mother's name is Pat, father's is Ted...has a sister, Elise favorites: movie - Men of Honor; TV show - I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant; actresses - Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy; pro team - NFL's Arizona Cardinals; athletes - Kurt Warner, Kelly Olynyk; food - chicken marsala; musician - Avicii; City - Berlin, Conn. likes painting and bird watching as hobbies...worked during the summer at the University of Hartford as a counselor for the Summer Place...majoring in secondary education--mathematics with a minor in athletic coaching.

What I Like Best About WNE: "The important role athletics plays in the community."



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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2013-14Redshirt

    Forward
    5'10"
    12
  • 12

    2014-15Sophomore

    Forward
    5'10"
    12
  • 13

    2015-16Junior

    Forward
    5'10"
    13
  • 13

    2016-17Senior

    Forward
    5'10"
    13