USask Huskies guard Logan Reider delivers record-setting, 40-point performance

From nan first possession against nan Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack past Saturday, Logan Reider recovered immoderate abstraction and knocked down a three-pointer.

Then came another… and past another… and past another.

By nan clip nan buzzer sounded astatine nan extremity of 4 quarters, nan University of Saskatchewan Huskies defender had put together 1 of nan astir businesslike performances successful U Sports women’s hoops history.

“It was benignant of an retired of assemblage experience,” Reider said. “I can’t moreover explicate what it was like.

“Everyone asks maine astir it and I don’t moreover remember. I benignant of was conscionable open, truthful you sewage to sprout it erstwhile you’re unfastened and they conscionable happened to spell successful that night.”

Reider group a caller Huskies programme grounds pinch 40 points connected nan night, helping nan visitors gain their sixth consecutive triumph pinch a ascendant 96-36 triumph successful Kamloops, B.C.

The showing by nan St. Joseph High School postgraduate moreover took longtime Huskies caput coach Lisa Thomaidis aback.

“We knew beautiful early connected that it could beryllium 1 of those nights for Logan,” Thomaidis said. “Certainly, I wasn’t expecting 40 points. I deliberation astatine 1 constituent it was Logan 9 [points] and Thompson Rivers 8 [points] aliases thing successful nan first quarter.”

With her last changeable of nan nighttime to scope 40 points, Reider surpassed programme fable Sarah Crooks who dropped 39 points successful nan midst of her title Huskies career.

“I conscionable spot each these beardown females up location connected nan leaderboard,” Reider said. “The truth that I’m 1 of those names now is conscionable surreal. I don’t moreover cognize what to deliberation because each of these women are group that I look up to and aspire to beryllium like.”

Reider’s monster crippled was punctuated pinch singular ratio from beyond nan arc, going 11-for-14 complete nan people of nan night.

That not only collapsed nan all-time Canada West people for three-pointers successful a game, but tied nan nationalist U Sports people of 11 held by Brittany Moore and Sandra Carroll.

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“I had a coach really from Germany scope retired erstwhile I posted astir Logan,” Thomaidis said. “He had coached Sandra Carroll successful Germany erstwhile she was playing professionally. Sandra was an unthinkable athlete, truthful to necktie that grounds is really, really cool.”

Thomaidis said Reider’s Saturday capacity against Thompson Rivers is conscionable nan extremity of nan iceberg for nan 2022-23 Canada West rookie of nan year.

However, Thomaidis said she believes Reider will now beryllium moreover much connected nan radar of teams crossed Canada West.

“She astir apt bought herself being face-guarded for nan remainder of nan season,” Thomaidis said. “That’s nan downside erstwhile you person a crippled for illustration that. You’re astir apt not going to spot arsenic overmuch daylight, you’re not going to find yourself unfastened arsenic often arsenic you person successful nan past. As I cognize Logan will, she’ll accommodate and it will make her a amended subordinate because of it.”

Averaging 15.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, Reider has helped nan Huskies move to a 6-2 grounds connected nan play astatine nan vacation break, which has them tied for 2nd successful nan Prairie Division pinch nan Alberta Pandas.

She believes there’s plentifulness near successful nan vessel erstwhile games statesman successful nan caller year, some for herself and nan Huskies arsenic a whole.

“I’ve put successful a batch of difficult activity to get to wherever I americium now,” Reider said. “I sewage to proceed that going guardant if we want to proceed nan occurrence that we’ve been riding connected truthful far.”

The Huskies’ first games of 2025 will travel connected their location tribunal erstwhile they big nan Mount Royal Cougars for a brace of games connected Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 astatine nan Physical Activity Complex.