| Gianna Kneepkens | |
| Number: | 5 |
| Team: | Utah Utes |
| League: | Pac-12 Conference |
| Position: | Guard |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Birth Date: | 4 March 2003 |
| High School: | Marshall School (Duluth, Minnesota) |
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Gianna Kneepkens (born March 4, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the Utah Utes of the Pac-12 Conference.
Kneepkens was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Donald and Betsy Kneepkens.[1] The youngest of six siblings, Kneepkens grew up playing basketball against her five older brothers.[2] She played for Marshall School in Duluth. A varsity starter since the eighth grade, Kneepkens helped her team to two Minnesota state tournament appearances.[3] During her high school career, Kneepkens scored 3,704 points, fourth all-time in Minnesota.[3] In her final high school game, Kneepkens scored 67 points, another all-time state record.[3] As a senior, she was named Gatorade Minnesota Girls Basketball Player of the Year, joining Paige Bueckers who won the award the year before.[3] Kneepkens then committed to playing college basketball for Utah.[4]
Kneepkens made her debut for the Utes on November 10, 2021, against Lipscomb University. She later earned a starting role after coming off the bench and putting up 29 points against in-state rival BYU on December 4, 2021.[5] During the season, Kneepkens went on to average 11.8 points per game, shooting 38.4% from three and 87.1% from the free-throw line.[1] Kneepkens was named Pac-12 freshman of the year, First Team All-Pac-12, and given Pac-12 All-Freshman honors.[1]
During her sophomore campaign, Kneepkens continued to see success, starting in every game and scoring an average 15.3 points per game.[1] During the Utes's NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament appearance that season, She was again named to the First Team All-Pac-12 and was named a WBCA Coaches' Honorable Mention All-American.[1]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22| style="text-align:left;"| Utah| 33||25||23.7||44.6||38.4||87.1||4.4||1.2||0.7||0.4||1.1||11.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23| style="text-align:left;"| Utah|32||32||28.3||49.8||42.3||83.1||5.2||2.1||0.9||0.5||1.6||15.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| Utah| 8||8||25.1||63.3||54.0||78.9||5.5||3.9||2.0||0.3||2.3||17.8|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career|73||65||25.9||49.1||42.3||84.1||4.8||1.9||0.9||0.5||1.4||14.0|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[6]