MCC hoops talent blazing from Alabama to Alaska

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hree McCook Community College women’s basketball players are moving on two four-year schools with two moving on to NCAA Division I programs and another to a Division II program.

Vanessa Jurewicz has signed on to division 1 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Valentina Monzo Diaz will play at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, both Division I schools, and Taryn Lindsey has committed to the NCAA Division II University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Jurewicz, a 5-7 guard from Stockholm, Sweden, was named to the all-Region IX South Sub-Region team as well as the all-Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference team.

She averaged 15.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.

She scored a season high 32 points Jan. 14 against Trinidad State and reached double figure scoring 24 times.

For her career, she played in 62 games, averaged 14.8 points a game, 3.2 rebounds. 2.6 steals and 1.4 assists. Her two-year totals in

Monzo, is a 6-2 forward from Santiago, Chile, who spent part of her three-year career at MCC on the injured list.

After appearing in a Dec. 3, 2021 game, she had knee surgery and missed the rest of the 2021-2022 season and the first three months of this season.

She returned to the court in early February and averaged 3.1 points and 1.7 rebounds per game.

She scored a season-high eight points in the final game of the season.

In her MCC career she played in 39 games, scored 185 points, grabbed 114 rebounds and dished out 36 assists.

Lindsey, a 5-5 guard from Fountain, Colo., averaged 12.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game. She made 147 out of 173 shots from the line this year. That 85 percent was 11th best in the country.

She was named to the all-Region IX South Sub-Region team and the all-Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference team. She finished the year scoring 363 points and grabbing 138 rebounds.

During the past two seasons with coach Brandon Pritchett, the program has had six players move on to Division 1 schools and three more with Division II schools.