#25 Sarah Cernugel 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2024 ACC Tournament champion
• 2023 ACC regular season champion

AS A SENIOR (2023-24)

• ACC Tournament champion
• Appeared in 15 games, scoring 16 points and notching 8 rebounds. Went 6-6 from the free throw line on the year
• Scored 5 points against Lafayette, a career high
• Earned a scholarship in August 2023

AS A JUNIOR (2022-23)

• Saw action in 12 games and scored once
• Recorded first career block and steal in First Round of the NCAA Tournament against Southern Utah

AS A SOPHOMORE (2021-22)

• One of two walk-ons selected for the 2021-22 Irish
• Made 10 appearances, scoring in two of them
• Saw two minutes of action in the Nov. 9 season opener vs Ohio, where she scored her first collegiate basket
• Also recorded a basket against Bryant on Nov. 21. 

PREP AND PERSONAL

• Attended Hinsdale Central
• Lettered three years in basketball playing the point guard position, and four years in soccer playing forward/midfield
• Made the playoffs all three years in hoops, achieving a combined 27 victories
• Two-time All-Conference
• Two-time Team MVP
• Senior year she averaged 9.8 ppg, 3.1 apg, 1.9 rpg and 1.7 spg
• Junior year she averaged 10.5 ppg, 2.7 apg, 3.2 rpg and 2.9 spg
• Also made the playoffs every year in soccer
• She was the 2019 team points leader in soccer and was named All-Sectional
• Highlight of prep career: scoring 18 points in the playoffs to help her team upset the conference champion, knocking them out of the playoffs
• Won the Robert Bell Female Citizen Athlete Award – Top female athlete at Hinsdale Central High
• Dean’s List all four years
• Junior Board Member of the Mend a Heart Foundation – non-profit organization that helps enrich the lives of children born with heart defectsNational Honors Society
• Illinois State Scholar
• Two-time IHSA Scholar Athlete (2019 and 2020)
• Majoring in Applied and Computational Math and Statistics
• Favorite athlete: Devin Hester
• Future plans: Wants to be a data analyst for a professional sports team. Dream job would be working for the Chicago Bears