Sammy Fatkin to return to Montana Lady Griz for 2022-23 season in latest roster update

MISSOULA — The Montana Woman Griz basketball program was dealt some massive information on Monday afternoon as senior Sammy Fatkin is coming again for one more yr at UM.

The Woman Griz program made the announcement together with numerous different roster updates through social media, saying Fatkin was granted an extension by the NCAA.

“Clearly she is a expertise. We love her on the wing,” stated UM coach Brian Holsinger in a media launch. “She is a giant addition by way of scoring and output on the courtroom. All people is worked up she is coming again as a result of everybody loves being round her as an individual. Anytime somebody who everybody loves will get to return again, it is such a constructive on your program.”

It will be one other chapter to a winding faculty basketball path for Fatkin. A Snohomish, Washington, native, Fatkin began her profession at Arizona earlier than transferring to UM within the 2018-19 season. Fatkin then performed a partial season in 2019-20 earlier than leaving this system part-way via the season.

After taking the 2020-21 season off from basketball, Fatkin returned to UM this previous season, the primary underneath Holsinger. Fatkin did not miss a beat and made an instantaneous impression again in Missoula, and was a go-to scorer for the Woman Griz.

Fatkin was the group’s main scorer till an ankle damage in opposition to Idaho State on Feb. 5 derailed her promising season. Fatkin missed 9 straight video games as she recovered and made her return within the ultimate sport of the common season in opposition to Sacramento State on March 4. She additionally performed in UM’s Large Sky Convention Event quarterfinal sport in opposition to Northern Arizona.

Fatkin completed the season averaging 12.6 factors, 4.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists per sport. She shot the ball at a 44.1% clip from the sphere and transformed 39.6% of her makes an attempt from past the arc.

“My faculty basketball profession has been a singular one and fairly the rollercoaster, so I am grateful for the chance,” Fatkin stated in a media launch. “Discovering a spot with this program and workers has made each hardship value it.”

In keeping with a media launch despatched out by Montana on Monday, Fatkin would be the solely senior from final yr’s group returning to this system. Former guard Nyah Morris-Nelson signed a professional deal in Australia again in early April, in the meantime in accordance with the discharge, Sophia Stiles and Abby Anderson are each trying into alternatives to play abroad as nicely.

Missoula native Kylie Frohlich, this system’s fifth senior final yr, will proceed her athletics profession at Montana subsequent yr however with the observe and subject group. Frohlich, who shall be a grad pupil in train sciences subsequent yr, will throw javelin for Montana subsequent spring in her fifth yr of eligibility as a Grizzly. Frohlich competed on the Large Sky Convention out of doors championships over this previous weekend the place she completed nineteenth within the javelin.

UM additionally famous that freshman Lamprini Polymeni, who performed in seven video games final yr, won’t be returning to this system.

Fatkin, guard Katerina Tsineke and ahead Carmen Gfeller shall be Montana’s three-player senior class subsequent season.