Maryland women’s basketball lands star Princeton transfer Abby Meyers

Princeton switch guard Abby Meyers has signed with Maryland ladies’s basketball, per a launch Friday.

From Potomac, Maryland, Meyers starred for the Tigers this previous season. Meyers, who’s 6-foot, averaged 17.9 factors and 5.8 rebounds per sport, incomes Ivy League Participant of the Yr and AP-All America Honorable Point out accolades.

Meyers visited the College of Maryland campus final weekend, per a crew spokesperson, and the addition was made official on Friday.

“We’re so pleased to offer Abby a homecoming right here at Maryland,” head coach Brenda Frese mentioned, per the discharge. “After we can add a convention participant of the 12 months, a winner, a pacesetter, an incredible teammate, and somebody who thrives within the huge moments, it’s thrilling. Everybody is aware of Katie Benzan was a spectacular Ivy League to Maryland transfer and I’m simply as enthusiastic about what Abby will carry to our crew.”

Princeton had an excellent season, climbing to as excessive as No. 24 within the AP Ballot coming into its convention event, and proved it was not a fluke within the NCAA Event. The Tigers knocked off SEC Event champion and No. 6-seed Kentucky within the first spherical of this 12 months’s NCAA Event, 69-62. Meyers, who led Princeton in scoring all 12 months, was instrumental within the upset, scoring a career-high 29 factors in opposition to the Wildcats.

As a result of the Ivy League didn’t maintain a 2020-21 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this previous season was Meyers’ first on the courtroom because the 2019-20 season. Her numbers skyrocketed, as she elevated her scoring common by 11.6 factors per sport and her rebounding common by 3.1 boards per sport.

“I selected to play my last 12 months 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 superb XFINITY Heart!” Meyers mentioned, per the discharge. “I’ve super respect for this system and all it has achieved beneath Coach Frese’s management, and I wish to assist proceed to construct the profitable legacy for the one and solely Terp Nation.”

Earlier than arriving at Princeton, Meyers was a incredible native highschool participant within the DMV. She excelled for Walt Whitman Excessive College, incomes All-Met Washington Put up honors throughout her senior season.

The addition of Meyers brings Frese’s present roster to 11 gamers. Final week, Maryland misplaced 5 gamers to the switch portal, together with All-People Ashley Owusu and Angel Reese, in a span of fewer than 30 hours. With Chloe Bibby and Benzan additionally exhausting their faculty eligibility, the exodus left the roster at seven scholarship gamers.

Nevertheless, Frese reloaded, rapidly.

This previous week, Maryland added four-star freshmen guards Brianna McDaniel and Gia Cooke, South Florida switch guard Elisa Pinzan and Meyers. Florida switch guard Lavender Briggs may also be a brand new face for the Terps subsequent season.

Diamond Miller, Shyanne Sellers, Religion Masonius and Emma Chardon all return to subsequent season’s roster. Class of 2022 guards Mila Reynolds and Ava Sciolla spherical out the 2022-23 crew because it presently stands.

As of now, Meyers solely has one 12 months of eligibility, a crew spokesperson confirmed. North Carolina head coach Courtney Banghart tweeted that the NCAA formally determined that it will not grant Ivy League athletes an additional season instead of the season the convention canceled sports activities.

“I watched her at Walt Whitman Excessive College and adopted her at Princeton,” Frese added. “What she’s achieved thus far is spectacular and he or she’s not finished but. We’re thrilled to have Abby and her household and pals right here at Maryland.”