Paige Bueckers
Highsnobiety / Erica Snyder
PAIGE BUECKERS FULL NAME
Paige Madison Bueckers.
PAIGE BUECKERS BIRTHDAY
Paige Bueckers’s birthday is October 20, 2001.
PAIGE BUECKERS HEIGHT
Paige Bueckers is 1.83m (6 ft).
PAIGE BUECKERS TEAM
Paige Bueckers plays for the UConn Huskies as #5 Guard.
WHERE IS PAIGE BUECKERS FROM?
Paige Bueckers is from Minnesota, United States of America.
DID PAIGE BUECKERS GET DRAFTED?
No, Paige Bueckers has not been drafted yet. She announced that she would be returning to UConn for the 2024-25 season although she is elidable for the 2024 WNBA Draft.
WHAT RELIGION IS PAIGE BUECKERS?
Paige Bueckers is Christian.
PAIGE BUECKERS STATS
Paige Bueckers is averaging 20 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 4 APG, 2.2 SPG, 1 BPG, with 53.2% FG and 43.7% 3PT for the 2023-2024 season, considering her return for a recent injury.
2001
On October 20, 2001, Paige Madison Bueckers was born
2016-2020
2016: Paige began her high school basket ball career at Hopkins High School, Minnesota
2019: Paige won Minnesota’s Gatorade Player of the Year, USA Basketball Female Athelete of the Year, and won gold at the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup. She was named Most Vaulable Player and later was honored as USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year.
2020: During her senior season, Paige became the first female high school player to be featured on the cover of Slam magazine.
Paige was also a five-star recruit and ranked as number one player by ESPN.
2021
Paige Buekers’s freshman year at UConn, winning every major National Player of the Year award she was eligible for (AP Player of the Year, Naismith College Player of the Year, USBWA Women’s National player of the Year, and John R. Wooden Award, etc), becoming the first freshman in history to do so.
As a freshman, she averaged 20 points, 5.8 assists, 4.9 rebounds, and 2.3 steals per game and shot 46.4 percent from three-point range.
She suffered a fractured tibia in December 2021, which caused her to miss most of the season. She returned late in the season and helped UConn reach the national championship game but lost to South Carolina.
2022-2023
Paige Bueckers missed the entire season due to an ACL injury.
In the following season, during her Redshirt Junior year, Paige returned to the court, averaging 20 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 4 APG, 2.2 SPG, 1 BPG with 53.2% FG and 43.7% 3PT through the season.
2024
Paige Bueckers Announced she would not enter the 2024 WNBA Draft and would return for the 2024-2025 season, stating her college basketball story isn’t done yet.
She also featured on the Highsnobiety FRONTPAGE 198.
