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Jersey Number 15
Sydney Searcy
- Position:
- Guard
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Nease
- Hometown:
- Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Major: Telecommunications-Production
Name Pronunciation: SIR-see
OF NOTE:
SOPHOMORE YEAR (2017-18)
2016-17 SEASON/CAREER STAT NOTES:
FRESHMAN YEAR (2016-17)
HIGH SCHOOL:
Name Pronunciation: SIR-see
OF NOTE:
- Took courses and trained on campus beginning with the Summer B session (began June 27, 2016)
- Learned to tie her shoes at the age of two
- Claims to be ‘addicted’ to raw carrots
- Uncle is Ciatrick Fason, a three-year running back for the Gators (2002-04) who started as a sophomore and junior and became a fourth-round selection in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings
SOPHOMORE YEAR (2017-18)
- Scored in every game appeared in except four
- Second career start vs. Savannah State = career-best 20 pts (6-12 threes)
- First career start vs. Stetson and tied then career-high w/ 11 pts
- Left the team for personal reasons midway through the 2017-18 season
2016-17 SEASON/CAREER STAT NOTES:
- Played in all 31 games
- Scored in 16 games
- 1 double-figure scoring game
- Consecutive made free throws: 4 (twice)
- 3-point-play (traditional) free throws: 1-1
FRESHMAN YEAR (2016-17)
- First double-figure scoring game came at Arizona State (Dec. 4) - 11 pts (4-4 FG)
- Sparked UF early in win vs. LBSU (Dec. 3) with 9 pts
- Two points in each of first 4 games until netted 9 at Northwestern (Nov. 25)
- Gator debut: 2 points, 2 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals [1st bucket was outside jumper - 7:27 left in 3Q]
- Season-opener in Jacksonville was 23 miles from home
HIGH SCHOOL:
- St. Augustine Record’s 2015 Co-Player of the Year
- 2014, 2015 & 2016 First Team Florida Association of Basketball Coaches (FABC) 6A All-State
- Named to North Team in the Florida Athletic Coaches Association 2016 All Star Girls/Boys Basketball Classic that played in March 2016
- Compiled 1,961 career points
- Senior Year (2015-16): averaged 19.6 ppg
- Junior Year (2014-15): averaged 23 points, 5 rebounds, 6 steals and four assists
- Coached by the legendary Sherri Anthony at Nease HS
- FGB 15U won the 2013 Deep South championship
- Only other girl’s basketball players from St. John’s county to play collegiately at an SEC school are Gator great Steffi Sorensen and Kelly Stevenson
- Verbally committed to UF as a sophomore
- 2014 All-First Coast Team
- Evaluation on ESPN: “Apache Paschal Memorial-July 2015: Athletic combo-guard handles and creates in up-tempo game; converts off turnovers in pressure; developing perimeter game consistency. (Olson)”
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