Kentucky
Former Miss Kentucky Basketball, Sweet 16 MVP winner transferring to UK
Oregon guard Maddie Scherr (23) dribbles as Stanford guard Lexie Hull, left, defends in the course of the first half of an NCAA school basketball sport Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Stanford, Calif. (AP Picture/John Hefti) Scherr has transferred from Oregon to Kentucky.
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The Kentucky girls’s basketball program will now have two Miss Kentucky Basketball award winners on its roster for the 2022-23 season.
On Friday night time, Maddie Scherr introduced on social media that she shall be transferring to Kentucky.
Scherr, a guard who was named Miss Kentucky Basketball in 2020 out of Ryle Excessive Faculty in northern Kentucky, performed the primary two seasons of her school profession at Oregon.
Her addition signifies that each Miss Kentucky Basketball 2020 and Miss Kentucky Basketball 2022 (guard Amiya Jenkins from Anderson County Excessive Faculty) are actually on the UK workforce.
Scherr was a highly-rated recruit within the class of 2020. In keeping with the ultimate ESPN top-100 rankings for the 2020 class, Scherr was the nation’s No. 19-ranked recruit.
As a senior at Ryle, Scherr averaged 14.9 factors and seven.3 rebounds per sport as she was named a McDonald’s All-American and a Jordan Model Basic choice, along with being named Miss Kentucky Basketball.
As each a junior and senior at Ryle, Scherr was named the Kentucky Gatorade State Participant of the Yr.
Scherr led Ryle to the college’s first state title throughout her junior season in 2018-2019 by averaging greater than 16 factors, seven rebounds, 4 assists and three steals per sport. Scherr was the MVP of the 2019 state event.
As a freshman at Oregon, Scherr performed in 22 of the workforce’s 24 video games, changing into a starter towards the tip of the season for all 4 of Oregon’s postseason video games because the Geese reached the Candy 16. She ranked second on the workforce with 25 steals.
As a sophomore final season, Scherr began 28 of Oregon’s 31 video games, this time coming off the bench for all three of Oregon’s postseason video games.
“One thing my dad at all times informed me earlier than I received to school is (that) school is a clear slate. No one cares about any of that stuff,” Scherr informed the Herald-Chief in January. “All people desires to play and compete and (you’ve) sort of received to hit that reset button and do it another time, actually.”
Her two-year Oregon profession featured per sport averages of twenty-two.2 minutes, 3.7 factors, 2.6 assists and a couple of.9 rebounds.
In whole, Scherr began 32 video games and made 53 appearances for the Geese, and shot 32.9% from the sector and 32.6% from three-point vary. She additionally totaled 71 steals throughout her time at Oregon.
“I believe I’m a pure level guard. I’ve at all times been this fashion,” Scherr stated. “I prefer to get assists. I prefer to feed folks the ball. I’ve a superb IQ of seeing my gamers, discovering folks out.
“It took so much for me to get snug in that,” she continued. “I believe as a freshman, it was actually laborious. Whenever you’re a degree guard, you’ve got the ball in your palms, you’re going to get some turnovers, so overcoming that and sort of remembering (to) nonetheless be assured and know what you are able to do.”
Not solely will Scherr goal to carry regular guard play to the Wildcats, however she additionally will carry a large quantity of social media followers.
Scherr has taken benefit of identify, picture and likeness alternatives as a school athlete together with her important social media following. Throughout three main social media platforms — Instagram, TikTok and Twitter — Scherr has greater than 52,000 mixed followers.
A number of sponsored social media posts adorn Scherr’s social media pages as a part of her NIL alternatives.
“I believe it’s been an enormous deal and positively with the period of time that we put into our sport, it’s nice to have that chance to sort of make some cash on the facet,” Scherr stated. “I take into consideration how I’ve skilled actually since I used to be within the fifth grade for this second. And it’s like, ‘Wow, I can receives a commission now, too, due to this.’”
Scherr is the fourth participant to hitch the Kentucky girls’s basketball workforce this season through the NCAA switch portal, following Adebola Adeyeye (Buffalo), Ajae Petty (LSU) and Eniya Russell (South Carolina).