2014-15 Women's Basketball

21 Whitney Wyckoff

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Lakota East
  • Hometown West Chester, Ohio

Biography

CAREER: Named 2015-16 team captain, becoming the 38th captain in the 43-year history of the program... Has appeared in 69 contests at Yale, including 27 starts ... Has averaged 4.3 points and 1.8 rebounds in 15.0 minutes per game ... Shot .339 from the field, .293 from three-point range and .642 from the free throw line ... Tallied 86 assists, 60 steals and nine blocked shots...Named Honorable Mention All-Ivy at the end of her junior season...Recipient of the team''s Outstanding Leadership Award at the end of her junior season...Earned five Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll nominations in her third season...Scored 8.1 points per contest, including a team-best 10.4 points in league games as a junior.

Career Highs

  • Points: 18, twice, last at Princeton, 2/27/15
  • FG Made: 8, at Columbia, 2/22/15
  • FG Attempts: 14, three times, last vs. Dartmouth, 3/7/15
  • 3-Point FG Made: 3, twice, last vs. Harvard, 3/6/15
  • 3-Point FG Attempts: 5, vs. Princeton, 2/28/14
  • Free Throws Made: 6, four times, last at Dartmouth, 2/6/15
  • Free Throw Attempts: 9, at Saint Peter''s, 1/13/15
  • Rebounds: 7, vs. Princeton, 2/14/15
  • Assists: 5, vs. Brown, 1/16/15
  • Steals: 5, vs. Columbia, 1/30/15
  • Blocked Shots: 1, nine times, last at Princeton, 2/27/15
  • Minutes: 31, at Saint Peter''s, 1/13/15

2014-15 Season: Played in 26 games, making 22 starts and averaging 22.3 minutes per game...Named 2015-16 team captain at the season''s conclusion...Named Honorable Mention All-Ivy at the end of the season, the only Yale player to earn All-Ivy recognition...Earned the team''s Outstanding Leadership Award at the end of the season...Averaged 8.1 points per game, including a team-high 10.4 points in league games...Recorded 1.3 steals (11th-best in the Ivy League), 1.9 assists, and 2.7 rebounds per game...Named to the Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll on five occasions throughout the season...Shot .357 (75-of-210) from the field and .706 (48-of-68) from the free throw line...Scored in double-figures 11 times...Racked-up a career-high 18 points against Columbia on Feb. 22 and Princeton on Feb. 27...Scored 12 points and dished out five assists vs. Maine on Jan. 7...Had a career-high five steals against Columbia on Jan. 30.

2014-15 Season Highs

  • Points: 18, twice, last at Princeton, 2/27/15
  • FG Made: 8, at Columbia, 2/22/15
  • FG Attempts: 14, three times, last vs. Dartmouth, 3/7/15
  • 3-Point FG Made: 3, vs. Harvard, 3/6/15
  • 3-Point FG Attempts: 5, at Penn, 2/28/15
  • Free Throws Made: 6, four times, last at Dartmouth, 2/6/15
  • Free Throw Attempts: 9, at Saint Peter''s, 1/13/15
  • Rebounds: 7, vs. Princeton, 2/14/15
  • Assists: 5, vs. Brown, 1/16/15
  • Steals: 5, vs. Columbia, 1/30/15
  • Blocked Shots: 1, six times, last at Princeton, 2/27/15
  • Minutes: 31, at Saint Peter''s, 1/13/15

2013-14 Season: Played in 25 games, including starts in five of the season''s last six games, and averaged 13.4 minutes per contest ... Averaged 2.6 points and 1.2 rebounds per game... Totaled 28 assists, 20 steals and three blocked shots ... Averaged 7.8 points and 2.2 rebounds, while shooting .438 from the field, in the last five games of the season ... Named the team''s Most Improved Player ... Named to the Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll on March 3 after averaging 9.5 points in games against Princeton (Feb. 28) and Penn (March 1) ... Scored a season-best 12 points against Princeton (Feb. 28) on 4-of-8 shooting and added three rebounds ... Scored 10 points and added three steals in 27 minutes in win at Dartmouth on March 8 ... Grabbed a season-high five rebounds at Harvard on March 7 ... Gave out four assists with two steals and six points against Columbia on Feb. 22.

2013-14 Season-Highs

  • Points: 12, vs. Princeton, 2/28/14
  • FG Made: 4, vs. Princeton, 2/28/14
  • FG Attempts: 8, vs. Princeton, 2/28/14
  • 3-Point FG Made: 3, vs. Princeton, 2/28/14
  • 3-Point FG Attempts: 5, vs. Princeton, 2/28/14
  • Free Throws Made: 4, at Columbia, 1/31/14
  • Free Throw Attempts: 6, at Dartmouth, 3/8/14
  • Rebounds: 5, at Harvard, 3/7/14
  • Assists: 4, at Columbia, 2/22/14
  • Steals: 3, at Dartmouth, 3/8/14
  • Blocked Shots: 1, three times last at Harvard, 3/7/14
  • Minutes: 27, at Dartmouth, 3/8/14

2012-13 Season: Appeared in 18 games, missing the final 10 games of the season due to injury ... Averaged 1.2 points, 1.2 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game ... Tallied a career-high six points on 2-for-4 from 3-point range in the loss at Sacred Heart ... Recorded career-highs in assists (3) and steals (2) in the loss at Georgetown.

2012-13 Season Highs

  • Points: 6, at Sacred Heart, 1/2/13
  • FG Made: 2, twice, last at Sacred Heart, 1/2/13
  • FG Attempts: 4, twice, last at Sacred Heart 1/2/13
  • 3-Point FG Made: 2, at Sacred Heart 1/2/13
  • 3-Point FG Attempts: 4, at Sacred Heart, 1/2/13
  • Free Throws Made: 1, three times, last at Bryant, 1/16/13
  • Free Throw Attempts: 2, five times, last at Bryant, 1/16/13
  • Rebounds: 6, at DePaul, 11/19/12
  • Assists: 3, at Georgetown, 12/28/12
  • Steals: 2, twice, last at Bryant, 1/16/13
  • Blocked Shots:
  • Minutes: 17, at Georgetown, 12/28/12

Off the Court:

  • Intern at the Muñoz Agency to plan NFL Play60 Character camps for Hispanic children, teaching good character on and off the field
  • Summer study abroad in Dubrovnik, Croatia, studying the history and culture of southeastern Europe and traveling to Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Work at the Yale Legal Services Organization in the Yale Law School as a reception aide, performing office duties and assisting students and attorneys with daily tasks

At Lakota East High School: Wyckoff averaged 12.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.3 steals, 2.3 assists and 2.0 blocks per game through the first four games of her senior season before suffering a knee injury that ended her high school career. She averaged 10.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists as a freshman, 13.1 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 2.1 assists as a sophomore, and 12.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists as a junior. ... A First Team All-Greater Miami Conference selection in 2010 and 2011 (sophomore and junior) ... A two-time District 15 Coaches Association Underclass All-Star, Southwest Ohio All-District Honorable Mention in 2010, Cincinnati Enquirer First Team All-City in 2011, and a two-time Team MVP ... Listed as the 77th-ranked off-guard in the country by the College Girls Basketball Report and ranked among the Top 100 players in Ohio by the Ohio Girls Basketball Report.

Personal: Full name is Whitney Paige Wyckoff. Resident of Trumbull College. Her sister, Brooke, played nine seasons in the WNBA with the Connecticut Sun, Chicago Sky and Orlando Miracle. She is currently an assistant coach at Florida State. Another sister, Alison, played basketball at Kentucky Christian University. Another sister, Jaime, ran cross country at Xavier University.

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2012-13First Year

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    5'9"
    21
  • 21

    2013-14Sophomore

    G
    5'9"
    21
  • 21

    2014-15Junior

    G
    5'9"
    21