BYU Star Shaylee Gonzales Reaches 1,000-Career Point Club In Second Season
Mar 24, 2021, 6:36 PM
BYU Women's Basketball star Shaylee Gonzales during the Cougars NCAA Tournament game against the Arizona Wildcats. (BYU Photo/Jaren Wilkey)
(BYU Photo/Jaren Wilkey)
PROVO, Utah – In only her second year playing in her college career, BYU guard Shaylee Gonzales has already reached the 1,000-point mark in her career.
1,000 career points for @shayleegonzales. 👏 🏀 @byuwbb #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/u6gqXiFxEb
— KSL Sports (@kslsports) March 24, 2021
Gonzales reached the 1,000-point milestone after knocking down two free throws late in the second quarter of an NCAA Tournament game against 3-seed Arizona.
Shaylee Gonzales joins the 1,000 point club at BYU
The 5-foot-10 guard from Arizona becomes the 31st player in BYU women’s basketball history to reach the 1,000-point club. She joins Paisley Harding on this year’s BYU team to reach 1,000 career points.
Congrats to @shayleegonzales on 1000 career points!
Many more milestones to come 👀 pic.twitter.com/uTHTg8mVYG
— BYU Women's Hoops (@byuwbb) March 24, 2021
BYU coach Jeff Judkins compared Shaylee Gonzales’s impact on BYU women’s hoops to that of Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell. Last season, Gonzales missed the entire year due to a season-ending ACL injury. She has a goal of playing all four of her years during her BYU career in the NCAA Tournament. Gonzales is halfway to that goal.
The all-time leading scorer in BYU women’s basketball history is Tina Gunn Robison. Gunn Robison has her jersey hanging in the Marriott Center rafters. She ended her BYU career in 1980 with 2,759 career points. Through her first two seasons, Gonzales is outpacing the BYU legend. Robison in her first two years had 928 points.
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for sports.ksl.com and host of the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports Saturday (Saturday from 12–3 p.m., KSL Newsradio). Follow him on Twitter: @Mitch_Harper and the KSL Sports app.
