Maryland women’s basketball adds Ivy League Player of the Year Abby Meyers

Maryland girls’s basketball picked up its fourth commit this week with the addition of former Princeton guard Abby Meyers on Friday.

Throughout Meyers’ three years with the Tigers, she totaled 936 factors whereas averaging 11.7 factors and three.8 rebounds per sport. This previous season, Meyers was named Ivy League Participant of the 12 months and acquired Related Press All-American honorable point out after averaging 18.2 factors and 5.9 rebounds per sport, guiding Princeton to a file of 25-5 and a convention title.

“Once we can add a convention participant of the yr, a winner, a pacesetter, an ideal teammate, and somebody who thrives within the massive moments, it’s thrilling,” Maryland coach Brenda Frese stated in a launch. “Everybody is aware of Katie Benzan was a spectacular Ivy League to Maryland transfer and I’m simply as enthusiastic about what Abby will convey to our staff.”

Meyers, who’s from Potomac, attended Walt Whitman Excessive Faculty the place she grew to become the college’s all-time main scorer with over 1,700 profession factors.

“I selected to play my closing yr of school basketball at Maryland as a result of not solely am I from Maryland, however I grew up going to the ladies’s basketball video games on the wonderful Xfinity Heart,” Meyers stated. “I’ve large respect for this system and all it has completed underneath Coach Frese’s management, and I wish to assist proceed to construct the profitable legacy for the one and solely Terp Nation.”

The signing of Meyers comes after Maryland landed top-60 recruits Brianna McDaniels and Gia Cooke in addition to South Florida switch Elisa Pinzan. The latest additions have been a significant enhance for the Terps after 5 gamers, together with All-People Angel Reese and Ashley Owusu, entered the switch portal.

Danny Manning has discovered a brand new dwelling.

After stepping in for former Maryland males’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon as an interim in December, Manning will be part of first-year coach Kenny Payne at Louisville as an assistant, in accordance with Stadium.

Manning joined the Maryland teaching employees in April as an assistant, becoming a member of his former Kansas teammate Turgeon. After Turgeon stepped down after a 5-3 begin, Manning led the Terps to a 15-17 file, this system’s first dropping season in 29 years.

Earlier than Maryland, Manning coached at Tulsa and Wake Forest after spending 9 seasons working underneath Kansas coach Invoice Self as an assistant.