Madison Booker | |
Number: | 35 |
Position: | Forward |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
League: | Southeastern Conference |
Team: | Texas Longhorns |
Birth Date: | 29 April 2005 |
Nationality: | American |
High School: | Germantown (Gluckstadt, Mississippi) |
College: | Texas (2023–present) |
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Madison Booker (born April 29, 2005) is an American college basketball player for the Texas Longhorns, which will join the Southeastern Conference in July 2024.
Booker played basketball for Germantown High School in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. As a senior, she led her team to its first state championship at the Class 6A state tournament.[1] Booker was selected to play in the McDonald's All-American Girls Game and was named Mississippi Miss Basketball for Class 6A and Mississippi Gatorade Player of the Year.[2] Rated a five-star recruit by ESPN, she committed to playing college basketball for Texas over offers from Duke and Tennessee.[3]
Booker entered her freshman season at Texas as the team's starting small forward. She moved to point guard and a leading role following a season-ending injury to Rori Harmon.[4] [5]
Booker helped the United States win a gold medal at the 2021 FIBA Under-16 Women's Americas Championship in Mexico, where she averaged 6.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.[3] At the 2022 FIBA Under-17 Women's World Cup in Hungary, she averaged 5.6 points, four rebounds and 2.3 assists per game en route to a gold medal.[6] Booker won her third gold medal at the 2023 FIBA Under-19 Women's World Cup in Spain, averaging 7.2 points and five rebounds per game.[7]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| Texas| 37 || 37 || 30.8 || 45.7 || 30.6 || 87.6 || 5.0 || 5.0 || 1.5 || 0.4 || 2.9 || 16.5
|-| colspan=2; style="text-align:center;"| Career| 37 || 37 || 30.8 || 45.7 || 30.6 || 87.6 || 5.0 || 5.0 || 1.5 || 0.4 || 2.9 || 16.5