Following a 2009-10 season in which his team’s scoring ranked last in the Ivy League (at 46.1 points per game), Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin said that the Quakers would need some “help on the scoring side.”
Luckily for the 2-26 Red and Blue, assistance will arrive in the fall when 5-foot-7 Cassie Pappas comes to campus.
A senior at Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta, Calif., Pappas finished her senior year with 1,938 career points. Averaging 25.2 points per game, she also helped lead her team to the California Southern Section Division I-A quarterfinals.
In March, McLaughlin said his pitch to the recruits was the possibility of making an impact right away.
And while it’s unclear how attractive that sounded to Penn’s five other recruits, Pappas admitted it played a large part in her decision.
“He said that he’d be looking for significant minutes to go to a lot of the freshmen, so I’m definitely very excited about the challenge,” Pappas told the Los Angeles Daily News.
