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2015-16 Women's Basketball Roster

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3 Riley Wurtz

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • Major Film & TV (Tisch School of the Arts)
  • Hometown Sandy Hook, CT
  • High School Newtown

Biography

2012-13 Game-By-Game Statistics
2013-14 Game-By-Game Statistics
2014-15 Game-By-Game Statistics

2014-15: Appeared in all 27 games as a reserve…finished second on the team in blocks and fourth in assists, three-point percentage and rebounding…chipped in 10 points, six rebounds, three steals, three assists, and a season-high two blocks vs. Staten Island (11/19)…finished with 10 points, a season-best five steals, three assists, and three rebounds vs. St. Joseph’s-LI (11/25)…scored a season-high 15 points to go along with five rebounds and a steal vs. Carnegie Mellon (1/18)…collected a season-best nine rebounds, while adding seven points, three assists, and a block vs. Emory (2/8)…contributed a season-best six assists vs. Case Western Reserve (2/13)…played a season-high 29 minutes and compiled six rebounds, three points and three assists vs. Washington-St. Louis (2/20)…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic…Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee Fall and Spring Honor Rolls.
 
2013-14: Appeared in 19 games, starting 14…NYU Holiday All-Classic Team (1/3-4)…scored a season-high 21 points vs. Brandeis (1/11)…poured in 14 points, matched a career high with nine assists and grabbed eight rebounds vs. Manhattanville (11/20)…also dished out nine assists and grabbed nine boards vs. Hunter (1/7)…pulled down a season-best 12 rebounds and added 10 points vs. MCLA (12/30)…notched a career-high seven steals vs. Chicago (1/17)…recorded one block on five occasions…played a season-high 37 minutes vs. Brandeis (1/11)…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic…Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee Fall Honor Roll.
 
2012-13: Started all 25 games for the Violets…Honorable Mention All-UAA…UAA Athlete of the Week (2/18)… NYU Tip-Off All-Tournament Team (11/16-17)…NYU Holiday All-Classic Team (12/29-20)…her 119 assists were third-highest one-season total in team history…matched led the team in field goal attempts, rebounds, rebounds per game, assists, and assists per game, finished second in minutes played, and was third in scoring, three-point percentage and steals…scored a career-high 24 points vs. Brandeis (1/5)…totaled 23 points, a career-best 17 rebounds, seven assists, and four steals vs. Chicago (2/17)…set career highs with nine assists vs. Skidmore (12/29) and in minutes played (41) vs. Rochester (2/1)…had a season-high six steals vs. St. Elizabeth (11/29)…notched a career-high three blocks in her collegiate debut vs. St. Joseph’s-Brooklyn (11/16)…Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee Fall Honor Roll.
 
High School: Four-year team member and starter…served as captain during her junior and senior campaigns…named MVP of the CIAC Tournament, All-State by the New Haven Register and Female Athlete of the Year by the Connecticut Post in her final season when she helped lead her team to the state championship…played on the junior varsity boys team in her freshman and sophomore years…also a four-year member of the volleyball team, as well as a two-year member of the baseball and lacrosse teams…All-Academic all four years.
 
Personal: Enjoys making short films…member of Alpha Sigma Tau…producing and directing Shady Pines Manor as part of the ultra-selective and prestigious Advanced TV Production course within NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts…inspired by comic actors Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell…aspires to be a writer for Saturday Night Live.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2012-13Freshman

    Guard
    5'3"
    3
  • 3

    2013-14Sophomore

    Guard
    5'3"
    3
  • 3

    2014-15Junior

    Guard
    5'3"
    3
  • 3
    C

    2015-16Senior

    Guard
    5'3"
    3
    C