Indiana Women’s Basketball New Player Profiles: Guard Lexus Bargesser

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Welcome to a brand new Indiana girls’s basketball collection the place new Hoosier gamers are launched forward of the upcoming 2022-23 season. Up first is incoming freshman guard Lexus Bargesser from Grass Lake, Mich.

The 5’9″ guard was signed to Indiana in Nov. 2021 and now sits on a 14-player Hoosiers roster, already a three-player addition from final season’s 11 gamers.

In her junior season, Bargesser helped lead her Grass Lake Excessive College crew to the 2021 Michigan Excessive College Athletic Affiliation Division 3 state championship after averaging 23.6 factors, 8.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists and three.8 steals all whereas capturing 55 % from the ground.

Bargesser has been named an All-State honoree, All-Convention choice and as a part of the Jackson Space Dream Crew and Better of the Finest.

The highschool and AAU basketball star is rated No. 48 by Collegiate Ladies Basketball Report, No. 53 by All Star Ladies Report and No. 67 general by ESPN.

Following the basketball state championship, Bargesser hit the bottom operating in observe and helped lead her crew to a state title incomes particular person wins within the 100, 200 and 400 meter dashes. 

As an athlete, what’s higher than two state championships in the identical faculty yr?

Bargesser’s accomplishments could be overshadowed by a heartbreaking damage in her 2022 senior basketball season. In Grass Lake’s November basketball opener, Bargesser tore her ACL and meniscus after making a transfer in direction of the basket.

The damage would utterly wipe out her senior basketball season and result in a surgical procedure in December 2021. Shifting ahead with bodily remedy, Bargesser solely missed one month of observe earlier than easing her manner again into athletics along with her future Indiana crew’s full assist.

As an alternative of operating all of her regular occasions, Bargesser began off with competing within the 400. By the way in which, she’s already again to profitable that race and competing in extra occasions.

Bargesser will be part of seven new Hoosier faces for the 2022-23 season together with fellow guards Yarden Garzon, Alyssa Geary, Sydney Parrish, Henna Sandvik, Sara Scalia and ahead Lilly Meister. 

Lexus Bargesser

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