McKenna Woliczko began her freshman season not sure if she would contribute on Archbishop Mitty’s varsity basketball staff.
She ended it with the identical variety of faculty scholarship gives as her jersey quantity — 20 — after placing up a collection of unbelievable performances on the courtroom.
Eighteen factors and 11 rebounds within the Open Division state remaining. A 29-point, 21-rebound masterpiece to win the NorCal Open championship. Twenty-two factors and 9 boards when Mitty captured the Central Coast Part Open Division title.
Within the greatest video games, Woliczko performed with the poise of a battle-tested senior, averaging 20.2 factors and 10.3 rebounds per recreation on a staff that completed 28-3.
For this, the freshman phenom has been named the Bay Space Information Group’s women basketball participant of the 12 months.
“It’s been loopy,” Woliczko stated throughout the season. “Going to Mitty, I didn’t count on to be a starter, not to mention averaging that many factors and rebounds.”
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In a blink of an eye fixed, Woliczko went from hoping for a job to turning into a bonafide star, a participant Mitty wanted after the staff’s veteran standout, Morgan Cheli, suffered a foot harm that brought on her to overlook 17 video games.
Alongside the way in which, lots of the nation’s high faculty applications — South Carolina, Stanford and Tennessee, amongst them — have provided scholarships to Woliczko.
“Generally it simply hits me that, ‘Oh my gosh … I'm speaking to those nice schools,” she stated.
Woliczko broke out at a high-profile nationwide event in Arizona throughout the holidays. In her first recreation within the desert, she made a mind-boggling 14 of 15 photographs and completed with 30 factors and 13 rebounds.
The 6-foot-2 ahead didn’t decelerate after returning to the Bay Space. She propelled Mitty to a 10-0 report within the West Catholic Athletic League, profitable every recreation in dominating trend.
Woliczko used her athleticism and lightning-fast leaping potential to seize offensive rebounds and get fast photographs off earlier than defenders might hope to contest.
“She will rating going through the basket and together with her again to the basket,” Mitty coach Sue Phillips stated. “Her versatility within the methods she will rating is a nightmare for defenders.”
As unstoppable as she was on the inside, Woliczko may ultimately develop right into a wing who can deal with the ball, go and create her personal shot from the perimeter.
“I’m not making an attempt to hurry into that,” Woliczko stated, including that she is slowly engaged on that a part of her recreation along with constructing power.
If Woliczko turns into extra versatile, she might be a part of gamers corresponding to Haley Jones and Danielle Robinson as all-time Mitty greats.
Phillips, who coached Jones and Robinson at Mitty, wanted few phrases to explain Woliczko after profitable the NorCal championship.
“She’s fairly a expertise,” stated Phillips, who has led the San Jose faculty’s program for 30 seasons.