For UMBC women’s basketball’s Te’yJah Oliver, the path to a breakthrough senior year started last summer in a familiar place.
Every day, Oliver made sure she was in the gym — and not just for team workouts. She got shots up outside of team activities and made time for extra sessions in the weight room to ensure she had the stamina to be an impact player for all 40 minutes of a game.
As a junior, Oliver had already led the Retrievers in scoring with 11.2 points per game. After a summer of hard work, her scoring average has spiked to 19.1, the second-best mark in the conference behind Binghamton’s Kai Moon (20.2). For Oliver, it all comes back to those long days in the gym.
“I feel like I have more confidence in myself,” Oliver said. “So I feel like I do it every day just [like] going back to my gym every day.”
