Blue White Illustrated

May 2015

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Penn State signee Teniya Page is one of the 24 players who have been se- lected to participate in the inaugural Jordan Brand Classic girls' game, which showcases the nation's top high school seniors. The Jordan Brand Classic will take place April 17 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. A 5-foot-7 point guard out of Mari- an Catholic in Chicago, Page also added first-team Associated Press All-State Class 4A honors to her list of accolades. She is the 21st-ranked prospect by both ESPN/HoopGurlz and the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report, and is ranked 17th by Blue Star Basketball, 20th by Prospect Na- tion and 26th by the All Star Girls Re- port. Named an honorable mention High School All-American by The Sporting News heading into her senior season, Page scored 1,135 in her first three years with the Spartans. As a junior, she accounted for 14.4 points, 4.7 as- sists, 3.5 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game to help Marian Catholic to a 28- 5 overall record, an East Suburban Catholic Conference championship and a third-place finish in the Illinois High School Association Class 4A Basketball Tournament. Page scored a game-high 31 points and added five assists in her final high school game, a 62-51 loss to Home- wood-Flossmoor in the Lincoln-Way North sectional championship game Feb. 26. She scored all 19 of Marian Catholic's points in the second quar- ter, hitting 6 of 8 attempts with two free throws and a pair of assists. "Teniya kind of put the cape on to keep us in the game," Marian Catholic coach Dan Murray told The Beverly (Ill.) Review. "It just never seemed like we could get everyone in the flow of the game." Another Penn State recruit, Jaylen Williams, helped lift Archbishop Williams High to a Massachusetts state championship in March. Bounc- ing back from an ACL injury that forced her to miss her junior season, Williams, a 6-3 post player, was a standout for the Bishops, who ended their season with a 69-46 victory over Hoosac Valley in the Divison 3 fi- nal. Williams finished her career with a double-double, totaling 10 points and 10 rebounds in the victory. and I'm excited to see it unfold." Under Washington, the Lady Lions won three consecutive Big Ten regular-season titles, the last coming in 2014. It was the :rst time in the 51-year history of the program that Penn State won three con- ference titles in a row. The team has also produced three All-Americans in Wash- ington's eight seasons: Maggie Lucas, Alex Bentley and Tyra Grant, with Lucas also winning Big Ten Player of the Year honors her junior and senior seasons. The Lady Lions have recruited three top-15 classes under Washington (2009, '13 and '14) and have signed :ve McDon- ald's High School All-Americans. That's four more than the program signed prior to Washington's arrival, and it includes senior-to-be Brianna Banks, who is ex- pected to play a key role next season a

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