BYU big name Shaylee Gonzales considered one of 10 semifinalists for Mid-Main Participant of the Yr

The award is called after Becky Hammon, big name school basketball participant and present trainer of the Las Vegas Aces.

Shaylee Gonzales is arguably the most productive participant on the most productive ladies’s basketball workforce within the West Coast Convention. The BYU sophomore is 2nd within the convention in scoring and steals, 3rd in box objective proportion and assists, and is tied with one different participant for essentially the most 20-point video games this season.

However Gonzales is in truth now not one to soak within the reward, or the more than one occasions she’s been named WCC Participant of the Week, or the nationwide watch lists on which she seems.

“She doesn’t need all that stuff,” trainer Jeff Judkins advised The Salt Lake Tribune. “She doesn’t need that stuff being introduced as much as the workforce. She doesn’t need to spoil what the workforce has and feature any individual really feel that she’s getting additional remedy or additional … publicity.”

Need it or now not, Gonzales is getting numerous publicity throughout the 2021-22 season. This week, she was once named amongst 10 semifinalists for the Becky Hammon Mid-Main Participant of the Yr Award.

Gonzales was once averaging 18.8 issues, 4.5 assists, 5.4 rebounds and a pair of.3 steals in keeping with recreation getting into this week. She had helped the Cougars to a 23-2 file and a 13-1 mark in convention play.

However Gonzales isn’t simply a few of the most sensible performers within the WCC. She is also throughout the most sensible 60 avid gamers all of Department I ladies’s basketball. She’s thirty fifth in issues in keeping with recreation, forty sixth in box objective proportion (51.6%) and 58th in steals in keeping with recreation.

Gonzales made the 3rd reduce of Becky Hammon award. In October, the watch checklist was once 25 avid gamers deep. That checklist was once whittled down to fifteen in January. The 5 finalists will likely be introduced in early March, with the winner being unveiled someday throughout the Ultimate 4.

The opposite 9 semifinalists for the award are: Dyaisha Honest, Buffalo; Jasmine Dickey, Delaware; Kierstan Bell, Florida Gulf Coast College; Macee Williams, Indiana College–Purdue College Indianapolis; Sam Breen, Massachusetts; Katelyn Younger, Murray State; Abby Meyers, Princeton; Stephanie Visscher, Stephen F. Austin; and Meral Abdelgawad, Western Kentucky.

Judkins mentioned Gonzales is the sort of humble participant that after she has gained WCC Participant of the Week previously, she doesn’t even need it introduced to the remainder of her teammates. She simply needs to be remembered as a winner and cross so far as imaginable within the NCAA Event, he mentioned.

Gonzales has had a couple of signature moments this season. She scored a career-high 35 issues previous this month. She stuck an outlet move along with her left hand and completed a layup whilst by no means striking the ball at the ground. She is of course right-handed. She additionally so occurs to be a a success entrepreneur off the courtroom.

Judkins as a result of there’s “no query” Gonzales will have to be named the WCC Participant of the Yr. A primary-team variety turns out inevitable as neatly.

The longtime BYU trainer, who’s in reality working out of items to mention about his big name participant, additionally thinks Gonzales will have to be identified at the Becky Hammon award’s greater scale.

“I do know I’m biased, however I don’t know if there’s a mid-major participant higher than her. I simply don’t,” Judkins mentioned. “I haven’t noticed one. I watch a large number of video games and I haven’t noticed it. So expectantly she receives that. She merits it.”