Kristian Young - Women's Basketball

2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster

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2024-25 (Graduate):

Played in all 33 games, starting in 27 of them.
Surpassed Terri Bender (2012-17) as the program’s all-time leader in career assists with 544 across five seasons. Also became the program’s all-time leader in games played, dawning a UIC uniform on the court 144 times in her career.
Led the Flames with 3.4 assists per game, ranking her eighth in The Valley. She also held a conference leading assist/turnover ratio of 2.5.
Scored a season-high 12 points off the bench against Northern Iowa on Jan. 3.
Collected a season-high eight rebounds in the opening round of the WNIT against UAB on March 21.

2023-2024 (Senior):

Played and started in all 34 games for the Flames.
Broke into UIC record books with 431 career assists, which ranks third all-time.
Closed out the season with 203 career steals, which puts her ninth in UIC history books.
Averaged 21.7 minutes per game, which was third-highest on the team (738 minutes).
Averaged 3.7 APG, 3.0 PPG, 2.8 RPG, and 1.4 SPG.
Scored a season-high 11 points against Illinois State (1/21/24).
Dished out season-high 10 assists against Omaha (12/1/23).
Finished fourth in the MVC for assist-to-turnover ratio (1.9), ninth for assists (126), and 16th in the MVC for steals (47).

2022-2023 (Junior):

Started and played all 36 games for the Flames, averaging 32.2 minutes per game. She averaged the eighth most minutes in a game in the Missouri Valley Conference.
She averaged 6.2 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 3.6 assists per game.
Scored a season-high 21 points in the second day of the WBI against FIU.
Grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds in win over Bradley on Feb. 25

2021-2022 (Sophomore):

Played in 24 games and started in 13 of them during her sophomore campaign.
Finished with a team-high 96 assists which landed her in second in the Horizon League in assists per game at 4.0 APG.
Scored in double figures in over 11 games for the Flames and ranked fifth in the league in minutes (33.6).
Finished second-best on UIC in rebounds (120), averaging 5.0 a game.
Recorded two doubles-doubles. On Nov. 23, 2021, against Valparaiso, she scored 14 points and a career-high 11 assists. On Mar. 1, 2022, against Milwaukee with 18 points and 10 rebounds.
Averaged 2.5 steals per game, with a career-high six steals against Cleveland State (1/27/22) and Detroit Mercy (2/14/22).

2020-2021 (Freshman):

Played in all 19 games and started 18 of them.
Led the team in total points (203), averaging 10.7 points per game, ranking 15^th in the Horizon League
Also ranked 15^th in rebounds, at 5.4 boards a game.
Finished 14^th in the Horizon League in assists with 4.1 per game. Second in the league in steals with 2.2 per game.
Scored a career-high 25 points against Youngstown State on Jan. 22, 2021.
Made a career-high three block against Milwaukee bon Feb. 19, 2021.

High School/ Personal:

Lettered in basketball at Lawrence North School and helped lead her team as Sate Runner-Up in 2019.
Guided her squad to a state championship, a Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (MIC) Championship and a Marion County Championship in 2020.
Ranked in the top-60 of all Indiana players.
Named Athlete of the Year in 2020 and named as an All Star in both her junior and senior year.
Garnered All-MIC honors and ranked in the top-30 academically at Lawrence North.
Currently Majoring in Integrated Health Studies at UIC.
Daughter of Miwako Story and Gayle Young.

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