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2017-18 Women's Basketball Roster

13 Caroline Shelquist

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Minnetonka, Minn.
  • Highschool Minnetonka HS

Biography

Career
• Shelquist enters her senior season ranked 22nd in Cornell history with 77 career 3-pointers.
 
As a junior (2017-18)
• Played in 20 games, including 12 Ivy League contests. 
• The first player off the bench four times this season.
• Posted a season-high eight points at Loyola in the season-opener.
• Handed out a career-high three assists at Colgate.

As a sophomore (2016-17)
• Saw action in 23 games during her sophomore season, including 11 Ivy League contests.
• Ranked third on the team in 3-point shooting percent, connecting on .381 percent.
• Came off the bench to hit a 3-pointer with 3.5 seconds remaining to send the Big Red into overtime at Stony Brook.
• Averaged 2.3 points and 5.6 minutes per game.   
•Finished the season with 12 rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal.  

As a freshman (2015-16)
• Had a solid rookie campaign, seeing action in all 28 games with one start.
• Finished the year ranked 11th in the Ivy League in 3-point FGM (1.4 p/g), and was 12th overall in 3-point FG percentage (.326).
• Her 43 3-pointers on the year were good for 10th place overall in Cornell history for 3-pointers made in a single season.
• Became one of just eight Cornell women’s basketball players to win Rookie of the Week honors twice in a career, earning the accolades on Jan. 25 and Feb. 1.
• Earned her first Ivy League Rookie of the Week award after scoring a career-high 15 points on a 5-of-8 performance from 3-point range as the Big Red defeated Columbia, 84-73, while her second came after helping the Big Red split a pair of overtime decisions vs. Harvard and Dartmouth on the weekend of Jan. 29-30.

At Minnetonka HS
• A four-year letter winner at Minnetonka High School.
• Was team captain and the team MVP her senior season.
• Was a Miss Basketball Minnesota nominee in 2015, also earning state all-star accolades that same season.
• Was a two-time All-Lake Conference selection in basketball and helped her squad to the Lake Conference championship as a junior.
• Lettered four times in volleyball, serving as team captain her senior season.
• On the volleyball court, she was named All-Lake Conference as a senior and won a Lake Conference championship in 2014.
 
Personal
• Caroline Elizabeth Sehlquist is the daughter of Rob and Kim Shelquist and she has one younger brother.
• Enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the SC Johnson College of Business.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2015-16Freshman

    Guard
    5'10"
    13
  • 13

    2016-17Sophomore

    Guard
    5'10"
    13
  • 13

    2017-18Junior

    Guard
    5'10"
    13