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All-Decade Team: Women's Basketball

Throughout the Fall 2020 semester, the top student-athletes from each of UMSL’s current varsity athletic teams from 2010-19 will be selected. 

Each sport’s all-decade team is comprised of the top-performing student-athletes, with emphasis on individual athletic achievement and accolades and team achievement. The decade is defined as the spring of 2010 through the winter of 2019. For fall and spring sports, it spans the seasons of 2010-19 and for winter, it includes the 2010-11 to 2019-20 seasons. A student-athlete must have played for at least two seasons during the decade to be eligible. 

Each all-decade team will be selected internally with the consultation of coaches as well as those close to the programs. 

This week's All-Decade Team is for women's basketball and consists of a traditional five-player starting line-up as well as a sixth-woman.

POINT GUARD
ARIELLE JACKSON (2018-19)

  • Two-time Second Team All-GLVC (2017-18, 2018-19)
  • GLVC All-Tournament Team
  • Career averages: 14.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.3 steals
  • Ranks seventh in career scoring average (14.6 ppg), eighth in assists average (3.0 apg) and 10th in free throw percentage (.758)

GUARD
ALEXIS LAWRENCE (2011-15)

  • Second Team All-GLVC (2014-15)
  • Career averages: 9.1 points, 1.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists
  • Ranks second all-time in three-pointers made (226) and attempted (631) and graduated sixth in three-point field goal percentage (.344)
  • Graduated eighth in field goals attempted (935) and assists (217)
  • Scored 1,011 career points
  • Helped team to 2014 NCAA Tournament

GUARD
LAURA SZORENYI (2017-20)

  • Two-time Third Team All-GLVC (2019-20, 2016-17)
  • Career averages: 11.7 points, 2.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.0 steals
  • Ranks fifth in career free throws made (266), eighth in free throws attempted (342) and sixth in free throw percentage (.778)

FORWARD
ALEX LAPORTA (2018-present)

  • Two-time Second Team All-GLVC (2019-20, 2018-19)
  • Career averages: 10.9 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.5 steals
  • GLVC All-Freshman Team (2017-18)
  • Ranks second in career rebounding (764), sixth in steals (127) and ninth in assists (221)
  • Set rebounds records for a freshman (236) and a sophomore (263)

CENTER
JORDAN FLETCHER (2014-18)

  • Three-time All-GLVC (1st in 2017-18, 2nd in 2016-17, 3rd in 2015-16)
  • Career averages: 11.8 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.24 blocks
  • Recorded 20 rebounds in a game, equals third most in a single game
  • Made single season top 10 for field goal percentage in three of four seasons and blocked shots all four seasons
  • Career leader in field goal percentage (.584), free throw attempted (410) and blocked shots (136)
  • Ranks fourth in career scoring (1,291)
  • Graduated third in career rebounds (666), third in free throws made (279), fourth in field goals made (506)
  • Set blocks in a season record by a freshman (32) and a  sophomore (32)
Smith Devonna

SIXTH-WOMAN
DEVONNA SMITH (2012-14)

  • Two-time First Team All-GLVC (2012-13, 2013-14)
  • Career averages: 12.9 points, 9.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals
  • Recorded 20 rebounds in a game, equals third most in a single game
  • Made single season top 10 for rebounds in all three seasons
  • Graduated second in career rebounds (726) and 10th in career scoring (1,020)
  • Also graduated fifth in career blocked shots (52), eighth in career field goals made (398), ninth in career free throws made (224), 10th in field goal percentage (.492)
  • Set a rebounds single season record by a sophomore (226)
  • Helped team to 2014 NCAA Tournament

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