Sczepanski Breaks UD Women’s Basketball School Record for Total Points

Junior forward Cara Sczepanski (Highland Village, TX/Marcus H.S.) broke the women's basketball school record for career total points Sunday night in the championship game of the NEAC tournament. Sczepanski scored 16 points in a losing effort against Penn State-Berks to bring her career total to 1,437 points, breaking the record of 1,436 held by Delilah Whisenhunt.

After scoring 454 points in both her freshman and sophomore year, Sczepanski started the season with 908 points and in need of 528 to tie the record. She averaged 18.9 points per game during the 2009-10 season in order to get it, and midway through the season became only the seventh UD women's basketball player to reach the 1,000 point mark. The record breaking shot was her last of the season, giving her the career mark as only a junior with one more season still looming. In the record setting game she shot 7-18 from the floor and 2-4 from the line while recording 10 rebounds for the double-double. She also had 4 assists, 1 block, and 1 steal in the contest. The effort came in wake of a last minute 78-80 loss to Berks after advancing deep into the tournament with wins over SUNY-IT and Keuka College. She finished the 2009-10 campaign with seventeen double-doubles, and season and career highs of 29 points and 21 rebounds.

Sczepanski already holds the school career records for free throws (418), field goals (507), and field goal percentage (46.4), and currently ranks third in rebounds with 631 (224 offensive). She also ranks in the top ten in blocks (50), steals (138), and free throw percentage (74.9).