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2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster

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10 Olivia Snyder

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Junior
  • High School Southern Lehigh HS
  • Hometown Center Valley, Pa.

Biography

As a junior (2021-22)

• Appeared in 14 games, starting all of them, and averaging 28.9 minutes per contest.
• Averaged 9.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per contest.
• Notched a career-high 20 points against Niagara on Dec. 4, corresponding with her 12 rebounds.
• Made a career-high 14 rebounds in Cornell’s win over Binghamton on Nov. 17.
• Recorded 130 total points on the season, 102 rebounds, 25 assists, nine blocks, and 22 steals over the course of the season.

As a sophomore (2020-21)

• Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to Cornell

• Played in four games as a freshman at Georgetown before transferring to Cornell for her sophomore season.
• Southern Lehigh HS’s all-time leading scorer (both boys and girls), tallying 2,077 career points.
• Third all-time leading scorer in the history of Lehigh Valley girls basketball, becoming one of only 11 players in the Lehigh Valley (both boys and girls) to eclipse the 2,000-career points mark.
• Named the 2018-19 AP 5A Player of the Year.
• Selected as a 2018-19 Gatorade Player of the Year finalist.
• Four-time all-state selection for Southern Lehigh, earning AP First-Team All-State and USA Today First-Team All-State honors as a senior.
• Named the 2018-19 Morning Call Player of the Year, in addition to receiving four other Player of the Year awards during senior campaign.
• Chosen as the 2017-18 Lehigh Valley Live Player of the Year after earning Lehigh Valley Live First-Team All-Area honors in 2016-17.
• Helped Southern Lehigh to back-to-back PIAA State Semifinal appearances in 2017-18 and 2018-19.
• Guided Southern Lehigh to four-straight league and District IX titles, becoming the only public school in the Lehigh Valley to accomplish both of these feats.
• Named the District XI Title Game MVP as a senior.
• Her Southern Lehigh team set the league records for most consecutive league wins (69), most consecutive wins (27), and most wins in a single season (27).
• Two-time Morning Call All-Area first team honoree.
• Two-time Colonial League MVP.
• Three-time first team All-Colonial League selection.
• Played on the club circuit for the Philadelphia Belles EYBL and Exodus EYBL.

Personal

• Olivia Taylor Snyder is the daughter of Marc Snyder and Kelly Snyder-Backenstoe and has one older sister.
• She is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2020-21Sophomore

    Guard
    6'0"
    10
  • 10

    2021-22Junior

    Guard
    6'0"
    10