Blue White Illustrated

| T eniya Page used to hear it all the time growing up: What have you done for me lately? Her father, Demon Page, wanted to make sure that she was never satisfied, and to do that, he had to ensure that she was living in the present. It didn't matter how many points she had scored or as- sists she had dished out in her previous game. That game was history. What mattered most were the ones to come. Teniya took that message to heart. "I kind of ask myself that all the time," she said. "I have a short memory when it comes to basketball. I try to have a quick turnaround and forget about what I did, whether it was good or bad, in the last game or last practice or last workout that I had. So that's pretty much what keeps me going. What have I done for myself lately? And what have I done for my teammates lately?" The answer to those questions is usually the same: a lot. Since arriving at Penn State in 2015 from Marian Catholic in Chicago, the 5-foot-7 guard has gone from one success to the next. She was named a unanimous Big Ten All-Fresh- man selection after her debut season, and she followed that performance by claim- ing WBCA honorable mention All-Amer- ica honors as a sophomore. Last year, despite having to rebound from an ankle injury she suffered at a USA Basketball camp the previous summer, she finished eighth in the Big Ten and 68th nationally with an average of 18.4 points per game. Page headed into her senior season with 1,589 career points, ranking 12th on the school's all-time scoring list, just behind Andrea Garner (1,619) and Lisa Shepherd (1,663). She's on pace to surpass 2,000 career points, an accomplishment that would put her in the company of only five other players in the program's history: Kahdeejah Herbert (2,026), Tyra Grant (2,044), Susan Robinson (2,253), Maggie Lucas (2,510) and Kelly Mazzante (2,919). There is, however, one thing she hasn't accomplished at Penn State, and that is to play in the NCAA tournament. The Lady Lions have made appearances in the WNIT the past two years, but they haven't made the NCAA field since the 2013-14 season, two years before Page's arrival. The team's inability to break through has been a source of disappoint- ment, but also motivation. "That's like the only thing for me right now," Page said. "I don't need anymore in- dividual accolades. I'm not a big individual accolades person. I would just be satisfied if we made the tournament. That's pretty much what I'm looking for this year." In order to do that, the Lady Lions will have to lean hard on their star guard, but not too hard. Part of the problem the past few years has been that the team hasn't been able to put the complementary pieces in place, and as a result has been too reliant on Page; with her senior year under way, she's one of only three players in the program's history to average more than 35 minutes per game for her career. As fellow senior Amari Carter noted, the Lady Lions can't simply rely on Page to keep filling up the stat sheet. "When you have a talent like her, you're going to have W O M E N ' S B A S K E T B A L L DON'T LOOK BACK Teniya Page strives to make the most of her final season DRIVE TIME With one season left in her career, Page ranks 12th on the Lady Lions' all-time scoring list. She had 1,589 career points heading into the team's opener against Providence. Photo by Mark Selders/Penn State Athletics

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