PHOENIX – UConn girls’s basketball sophomore Kayleigh Heckel was chosen because the recipient of the 2026 NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Award for girls’s basketball.
Most lately generally known as the Elite 90 Award, the award acknowledges the student-athlete with the best cumulative grade-point common competing on the finals website for every of the NCAA’s 92 males’s and ladies’s championships throughout its three divisions. Freshmen usually are not eligible for the award.
Heckel holds a 3.967 cumulative grade-point common and is an analytics and knowledge administration main.
On the courtroom, Heckel is without doubt one of the major gamers off the bench for the undefeated Huskies. She is averaging 6.9 factors and a couple of.8 assists per sport.
Heckel is UConn’s second Elite Scholar-Athlete Award winner after Maya Moore (2011).
