Aliyah Boston signs with Under Armour, will host camp in Virgin Islands

After placing collectively a near-perfect junior season, South Carolina star Aliyah Boston is making main strikes off the court docket.

The reigning Naismith Award winner because the nation’s greatest participant has signed a cope with Below Armour, with plans to open the first-ever ladies’s basketball camp in her hometown of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

“Working with Below Armour is a large honor. It means a lot to me as a result of it’s a model I’ve been sporting for years—each for cross-training and once I’m on the court docket,” Boston mentioned in an announcement. “With Below Armour, I’m most excited to proceed constructing and rising the ladies’s basketball neighborhood. I’m actually wanting ahead to giving extra younger women entry to the game on the neighborhood stage.”

Boston led South Carolina to this system’s second-ever nationwide championship, and was named the Most Excellent Participant at this 12 months’s match. In 37 video games, Boston averaged 16.8 factors, 12.5 rebounds and a couple of.4 blocks per sport, with 30 double-doubles on the 12 months.

Boston may also showcase the corporate’s Breakthru 3 ladies’s basketball shoe. Below Armour, which sponsors South Carolina athletics, collaborated with the Gamecocks ladies’s basketball workforce final season on customized shirzees.

“I need to see ladies’s basketball be embraced, lined, and valued simply as a lot as males’s basketball,” Boston mentioned. “I hope to assist obtain that change by persevering with to dominate the court docket and utilizing my voice to encourage the subsequent technology to play.”

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