2024-25 Women's Basketball
Roster
#25 Sarah Cernugel 2023-24 Women's Basketball Roster
Guard
Height
5-4
Class
Senior
Eligibility
Junior
Hometown
Westmont, IL
High School
Hinsdale Central
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2024 ACC Tournament champion
- 2023-24 ACC Academic Honor Roll
- 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)
- Majored 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
