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2023-24 Women's Basketball Roster

Derrick Tuskan/UC San Diego
Derrick Tuskan/UC San Diego
Derrick Tuskan/UC San Diego
Derrick Tuskan/UC San Diego
Derrick Tuskan/UC San Diego

24 Denali Pinto

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Fairview HS
  • Hometown Boulder, Colo.
  • Major Finance
  • College Rady

Biography

MEDIA
Tritoncast Podcast (Jan. 17, 2024)

AS A GRAD STUDENT IN 2023-24
All-Big West Honorable Mention...CSC Academic All-District Team...Big West Winter All-Academic Team...Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll, Highest Honors...UCU Athlete of the Week (Nov. 27)...Appeared in all 31 games, making 23 starts…Averaged 11.5 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1.0 steal and 0.9 assists in 28.3 minutes…Ranked 15th in the Big West in scoring and second on the team…Finished first on the team in three-pointers (59), shooting 32.6 percent and averaging 1.9 per game to rank sixth in the conference…Was the Tritons’ leading scorer in eight games…Recorded 20 double-figure scoring efforts and two 20-plus point games…Scored a season-best 28 points against Cal State Fullerton (Jan. 6)…Recorded a season-high 11 rebounds at UC Riverside (Jan. 25).

AS A GRAD STUDENT IN 2022-23
Big West Commissioner’s Honor Roll, Highest Honors…UCSDTritons.com Athlete of the Week (Nov. 14)...Was injured in the season opener…Recorded 17 points, five rebounds, three assists and one steal in 24 minutes before her season was ended.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL (2018-2022)
Attended Colorado School of Mines where she earned her degree in chemical engineering in 2022 …Three-time CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America … Two-time RMAC Academic Player of the Year …Three-time RMAC First Team All-Academic … 2021 Colorado Sportswoman of the Year…Two-time D2CCA All-Region honoree …Two-time RMAC Player of the Year… 2019 RMAC Freshman of the Year… Four-time First Team All-RMAC … Helped her team to two RMAC Championships (2021, 2022) and two NCAA D-II Tournament Selections (2021, 2022).
 
Finished her Oredigger career listed 33 times in the program record book including top marks for career points, single-season points, points in a game, career scoring average, season scoring average, three-pointers in a game, career free-throw percentage, season free-throw percentage, season free throws made and career free throws made … Orediggers’ all-time leading scorer (1,652) and single season scorer (578) … Set the program single game scoring record (38 points) against Fort Lewis (Feb. 11, 2022)…Career average 15.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.7 assists.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
Point guard at Fairview … Averaged 15.2 points, 3.0 assists, 6.6 rebounds, and 3.8 steals per game in her career … CHSAA/Maxpreps First-Team honoree in 2016-17 … BoCoPreps First-Team All-Region … Three-time all-conference pick including first team as a sophomore and junior … Earned team's Distinguished Knight Award and Foxhole Award for work ethic and trustworthiness … Also an outstanding tennis player who was the 2016 Colorado No. 4 doubles state champion leading Fairview to the state team title that year … Played club for BC Denver … First-Team Academic All-State.

PERSONAL
Born on Aug. 20 to Tammy and James in Boulder, Colo. …Has one younger brother, Brody…Mother, Tammy Weckwerth played softball at Cornell College…Favorite basketball memory was when her brother flew from New York to Colorado to surprise her for her college senior night in which her team won the RMAC Championship…After graduating, she hopes to work in the biomedical engineering field and work to improve surgical equipment to make surgeries less invasive to ultimately help people have quicker and less painful recoveries…Hobbies include going to the beach, hiking, playing volleyball, tennis, traveling and reading…Roots for the Denver Nuggets…Favorite athlete is Breanna Stewart…Favorite movie is Black Widow…Listens to Harry Styles, Dua Lipa, Imagine Dragons…Favorite food is Italian food…Says she knows nearly every word to Hamilton, the musical.
 
CAREER HIGHS
Points  17  Multiple Times -
FGM  8 Multiple Times -
FGA  14 vs Penn 11/26/23
3FGM  3 Multiple Times -
3FGA  6 vs Penn 11/26/23
FTM  6 at San Diego State 11/28/23
FTA  7 at San Diego State 11/28/23
Rebounds  5 Multiple Times -
Assists  3 at California Baptist 11/7/22
Blocks  1 vs La Sierra 11/15/23
Steals  2 Multiple Times -

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Historical Player Information

  • 14

    2022-23Graduate Student

    Guard
    6'0"
    14
  • 24

    2023-24Graduate Student

    Guard
    6'0"
    24

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