Fort Myers, Florida. – The FGCU Women’s Basketball Team today added another high-level transfer signer. Alyza Winston (Muskegon, Michigan / Muskegon HS / Michigan / Mississippi) Participation in Eagles announced by head coach Karl Smesco today. Winston moved to Mississippi this January, but was only eligible to practice after two seasons of hard play, starting as a starter in 2020-21 and in Michigan in 2021-22.
“Ariza is a skilled and talented player. She is a very good shooter and a proven scorer for high levels of competition,” Smesco said. “She should be really good at our playing style. She’s Ariza fast and she loves to play in transitions.”
Along with Spartan, she started all 10 games played to start this past season, averaging 12.2 points and 3.0 assists before the transfer. She recorded in less than 27 minutes, shooting .425 from her floor. Winston launched a breakout sophomore campaign in 2019-20, averaging 11.1 points, 2.0 assists and 1.1 rebounds per contest to become a full-time starter. Her 5’7 guard scored double digits 23 times in her career, but she surpassed 15 points in 11 of these games. She has a career of 44% from the field and 73% from the charity stripes.
She posted the best 25 points of her career as a sophomore to Iowa (12/12/20), going from the floor with 6 3 pointers to 9-of-17. She also scored 20 points in Minnesota (12/9/20), after which she recorded 23 points and a career-leading 7 rebounds against Pennsylvania State University in a big tent tournament.
Prior to college, Winston played for Rodney Walker at Muskegon High School, leading the team to the semifinals of Class A, averaging 24.7 points, 3.3 steals and 3.2 assists as seniors. Winston, a four-star rookie and ranked 68th in the 2019 class, was also named to the 2019 Detroit Free Press Dream Team that season.
As a junior, she led Muskegon to the state quarterfinals for the first time in school history. She averaged 21.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.1 steals during the junior campaign.
Throughout her high school career, she won national honors in 2018 and 2019 in a row, as well as all conferences and district honors. Winston has hosted offers from high school graduates such as Kentucky, Rutgers, West Virginia and De Paul.
Winston will join Sha Carter from the University of Walsh and Uju Ezeudu from the University of Denver as pre-announced newcomers for the upcoming season. Carter was Walsh’s highest scorer in history and was the fastest pioneer to reach 1,000 career points (73 games), three times in All-American and two times in the All-Summit League.
Ranked 20th in the final WBCA vote of the season, the FGCU set a 30-3 overall record between 2021 and 22 after advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament. It has participated in the Eagles NCAA tournament eight times and five times in a row over the last 11 years. Green and Blue won the 9th ASUN Championship title and won the berth, with 30 victories achieving their fifth milestone in the last eight seasons.
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The FGCU team has joined together to win an incredible 92 conference regular seasons and tournament titles in just over 14 seasons at the Division I level. In addition, with just over 10 seasons of DI postseason qualifications, the Eagles have a total of 45 teams or individuals competing in the NCAA Championship. In 2022, the Men’s Golf Team became the first program to win at the NCAA Tournament’s large berth. The eight FGCU programs are ranked in the top 25 nationwide for each sport. This includes both women’s basketball (Nos. 2021-22), beach volleyball (No. 20 of 2022), men’s soccer (2018, 2019) and women’s soccer. (2018) As the latest four. In 2016-17, Green and Blue were ranked 6th in the DI-AAA Rearfield Directors Cup, the highest in the category, and were among the top 100 nationwide ahead of several Power-5 and FBS agencies. In 2018-19, the Eagles won the ASUN, and Florida’s top seven teams received the NCAA’s official award for academic performance in sports. The FGCU also earned a record 3.50 GPA in the classroom in the fall semester of 2020, surpassing undergraduate students in general college for 25 consecutive semesters. In the last five semesters (Autumn 2019-Autumn 2021), all 15 programs have reached different milestones as they each achieved a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. Eagles also volunteered for a record 7,200 hours in 2017. It is recognized as one of the two runners of the Fiesta Bowl’s first NACDA Community Services Awards.
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