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UConn women’s center Jana El Alfy named to Leslie Award watch list
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Jana El Alfy, UConn women's basketball 6-foot-5 redshirt junior center, was named Friday to the watch list for the Lisa Leslie Award.
The award, sponsored by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the WBCA , recognizes the country's top Division I center. Twenty players were named to the watch list. Leslie was a three-time All-American at USC and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.
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El Afly averaged four points and 4.1 rebounds per game last year and shot 62.8 percent from the field coming off the bench. She was a starter her first year and is only one of two remaining starters from the 2025 NCAA championship team on this year's team.
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This season, she started in three exhibition games, averaging 6.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.
Three other UConn players have been nominated to watch lists this past week – senior KK Arnold to the 20-players list for the Nancy Lieberman Award, which goes to the nation's top point guard; sophomore Blanca Quiñonez to the Cheryl Miller Award watch list for the nation's top small forward and junior Sarah Strong to the Katrina McClain Award watch list for the nation's top power forward. Fans can support their favorite player by participating in voting via hoophallawards.com .
UConn opens its season Monday at 5 p.m. against Cornell at PeoplesBank Arena.
