2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster

#25 Sarah Cernugel 2023-24 Women's Basketball Roster

Guard


Height 5-4
Class Graduate
Eligibility Senior
Hometown Westmont, IL
High School Hinsdale Central
Sarah Cernugel - Women's Basketball - Notre Dame Fighting Irish

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • 2024 ACC Tournament champion
  • 2023-24 ACC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2023 ACC regular season champion

AS A GRADUATE (2024-25): 

  • MERCYHURST (11/4): Played 9 minutes and recorded 2 steals, both career-highs

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
  • LAFAYETTE (12/6): Scored 5 points, a career-high
  • Earned a scholarship in August 2023

AS A JUNIOR (2022-23)

  • Saw action in 12 games and scored once
  • SOUTHERN UTAH (3/17): Recorded first career block and steal in First Round of the NCAA Tournament

AS A SOPHOMORE (2021-22)

  • One of two walk-ons selected for the 2021-22 Irish
  • Made 10 appearances, scoring in two of them
  • BRYANT (11/21): Recorded a basket
  • OHIO (11/9): Saw 2 minutes of action in the season opener, where she scored her first collegiate basket

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