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By Amable Aristy
Gatorade National Player of the Year. Naismith Prep Player of the Year. Wooden Award, USBWA’s Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, Naismith Trophy. AP National Player of the Year.
If you could not already tell, this is the current resume of University of Connecticut star, Paige Bueckers. She has gathered these awards, along with a number of others, since the start of her freshman year at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
During her time at Hopkins, she quickly rose to stardom and into national headlines. She was a phenom earlier than most. Her first year at that level came as an eighth grader, when she averaged 8.9 PPG, 3.5 RPG and 2.1 SPG.