University of Miami Athletics
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Yalonda McCormick

position

Guard

Height

5-8

Class

Senior

Hometown

Miami, Fla.

High School

Monsignor Edward Pace

Yalonda McCormick - Women's Basketball - University of Miami Athletics

2003-2004 (As a Junior): McCormick started all 29 games in her junior season…Averaged 12.1 points and 5.4 assists per game…Led the team with 19 points and six assists in the BIG EAST tournament loss to Boston College (3/7/04)…Scored in double-digits in 18 games this season…Dished out seven assists, tallied three steals and swatted down a career-high three blocked shots in the win over Providence (3/2/04)…Scored 14 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out nine assists in the win over West Virginia (2/28/04)…Scored 16 points and in the loss at Notre Dame (2/25/04)…Scored 13 points and dished out a season-high nine assists in the win over Seton Hall (2/21/04)…Scored 11 points and dished out six assists in the win over Syracuse (2/18/04)…Tallied six assists in the win over No. 21 Virginia Tech (2/14/04)…Dished out eight assists and grabbed six steals in the win over St. John’s (2/10/04)…Scored a team-high 23 points, including three rebounds, three assists and three steals in 40 minutes of action in the loss to Rutgers (1/31/04)…Dished out seven assists and picked up six steals in the loss to Notre Dame (1/28/04)…Scored a team-high 24 points in the win over Providence (1/20/04)…Scored nine points, picked up eight steals and dished out six assists in the win over Pittsburgh (1/17/04)…Scored 14 points, grabbed seven rebounds, dished out six assists and tallied four steals in 49 minutes of action in the win over Georgetown (1/14/04)…Scored 14 of her 23 points in the final six minutes to lead UM to victory over No. 20 Boston College (1/10/04)…Scored 11 points, grabbed seven rebounds, picked up seven steals and dished out six assists in the win over St. John’s (1/3/04)… Named to the Gatorade Holiday Classic all-tournament team…Scored a career-high 28 points, hit five three-pointers and career-high with seven rebounds to lead Miami in the win over No. 24 Vanderbilt (12/29/03)…Was 11-of-15 from the field and five-of seven from the three-point line against Vanderbilt…Pulled down six rebounds and dished out six assists in the win over Toledo (12/28/03)…Scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in the win over Dartmouth (12/16/03)…Scored 17 points and matched her career-high of seven rebounds in the win over Florida (12/12/03)…Scored a team-high 18 points in the win over South Florida (11/25/03)…Dished out a season-high nine assists in the win over Eastern Kentucky (11/25/03).

2002-03 (As a Sophomore): Yalonda McCormick led the team averaging 5.9 (185) assists per game…She moved into Miami’s single-season top 10 list with her career-high 11 steals against Providence (2/22/03)…Her 185 assists ranks fifth in Miami’s single-season top 10…She ranked second on the team with 3.2 (100) steals per game…She averaged 10.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game…She scored in double digits in 18 games and recorded three double-doubles…She led the team in scoring in three games, Pittsburgh (1/22/03) with 19 points, Villanova (2/1/03) with 13 points and at Rutgers (2/4/03) with 20 points…She led the team in assists in 20 games, including dishing out 10 or more in four games…She stole the ball eight times against Florida Atlantic (12/16/02) and at Syracuse (1/8/03)…She picked up a career-high seven rebounds and played 42 minutes against Virginia Tech (1/28/03)…She hit a perfect 1.000 (8-8) free-throw percentage at Pittsburgh (1/22/03)…She scored 19 or more points three times, 19 at Pittsburgh (1/22/03) and 20 twice at Rutgers (2/4/03) and versus New Mexico (3/22/03).

2001-2002 (As a Freshman):  Yalonda McCormick played in 17 games last season…She averaged 2.9 points and 1.3 rebounds per game…She scored a career-high 12 points and three rebounds in the win over West Virginia (12/4/01) at home…She tallied a career-best of five assists in the win over Georgetown (2/13/02).

High School: Yolanda McCormick is expected to lead Hurricanes at the point position…she averaged 21.5 points, 10.5 assists, 10.1 steals and eight rebounds a game at the guard position…as a junior and senior, she garnered first-team all- state honors while leading her team to two consecutive district championship titles…as the team captain she earned team’s most valuable player and player of the year honors… she led her team to a 26-2 finish last season…was nationally ranked 29th of the top 250 players in the 2001 recruiting class and 5th out of the top 150 point guards in the nation, according to the All Star Girls Report.

Personal: Nickname is ‘Bay-Bay’…cousin of former Hurricane Chanivia Broussard…interests include shopping and drawing…majoring in Liberal Arts.