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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

0 Maliyah Johnson

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-1
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool Africentric
  • Hometown Columbus, Ohio
  • Prev School Houston
  • Twitter _Mbucketss
  • Instagram maliyaaahhhh

Biography

2024-25 (Senior - Houston)
• Did not play due to injury

2023-24 (Junior - Houston)

• Appeared in 30 games, making six starts.

• Set career-highs in points, assists, three-pointers made, free throws made and steals this season.
• Tallied a career-high 24 points against Grambling, including seven points from the charity stripe (Nov. 19).
• Dished out five assists vs. #13 Baylor (Feb. 4).
• Posted four steals vs. #11/12 Kansas State.
• Tied her career-high nine rebounds against Texas A&M-Commerce.
• Recorded nine double-digit scoring efforts, including six in Big 12 Conference play.

2021-23 (Freshman and Sophomore - Pitt)
• Scored in double figures 13 times in 2022-23 including a career-high 20 points on 7 of 9 shooting against Bryant.
• Averaged 8.5 points per game and 25.4 minutes per game in 26 starts for the Panthers in the ACC as a sophomore in 2022-23.
• Made 30.8 percent of her three-point attempts during the year for Pitt and made 86.2 percent of her charity stripe attempts.
• Was Pitt's third-highest scorer and made the second-most three-pointers during the 18-game conference slate in 2022-23.
• Appeared in 27 games as a freshman, starting five for the Panthers in 2021-22.

High School
• Was four-year player for Africentric Early College in Columbus, Ohio under head coach William McKinney.
• Finished off her senior season averaging a career-high 18.5 points and 12.0 rebounds while leading her squad to an 11-3 overall record and claiming their sixth straight Division III district championship.
• Named First Team All-City, First Team All-Central District and Third Team All-Ohio during her strong senior campaign.
• Helped her squad collect Ohio State Championships in 2018 and 2019
• Was a key contributor on the volleyball team that won multiple City League championships.

Personal
• Daughter of Marcus Johnson and Kendra Waters
• Has two siblings, Marcus and Mekhi
• Majoring in integrated studies
• Pronouns: She/Her

Statistics

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