Uconn star Paige Buecker returns from Injury | Career | Bio | Wiki 2024

Introduction

Paige Buecker was out for the 2022-23 NCAA season after getting injured at the ACL in her left knee in a pickup game. She then underwent successful surgery in August but was not cleared for any full-contact basketball activity till May. In an interview with she gave an update on her recovery & said that she’s been playing basketball, shooting and different activities. We all her fans wish him a speedy recovery.

Quick Facts

Career

As of 2023, her net worth is approx $ 5 million (INR 41.12 Cr) which she achieved through her career as a basketball player. Apart from playing basketball, she is also active in her involvement with many international brands and organizations which also adds some good fortune to her net worth every year.

Bueckers is represented by Wasserman’s Lindsay Kagawa Colas. In August 2021, she joined Wasserman as a name, next month after the NCAA approved compensation for the use of student-athletes NIL.  

Later on, in the same year she signed her first two endorsement deals in November 2021. She will also continue to wear Nike clothes in games due to UConn’s deal with the company. Along with this, she will promote StockX off the court by wearing other brands. Gatorade signed her as its first college athlete in the second deal.

On 25th November 2016, she made her Hopkins High School freshman season debut & took on a bigger role by becoming one of the team’s top scorers and passes. Two years later she was sidelined as a sophomore in January 2018 due to an ankle issue that had been disturbing her throughout the season. After these achievements, she was named the first sophomore to earn the Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year award since it was established 34 years ago.

She then became the first female high school basketball player to be featured on the cover of Slam magazine on 29th January 2020, during her senior season. She led Hopkins to the Class 4A state title as a senior, but the championship game was cancelled on 13th March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

She had surgery on her right ankle on 30th April 2021, to correct an osteochondral defect. On 14th November that same year, she made her sophomore season debut where she scored 34 points, six rebounds, and four assists in a 95–80 win over Arkansas.

Personal Life

When it comes to her relationship status, she is currently single. She has also never been photographed with any other person in public or in the press. Also, she has never been involved in any controversy and has maintained a clear public image. Along with that, she has no notable information regarding her personal or dating life.

Early Life

She started playing basketball at the age of five in Edina, Minnesota. She was a catcher in Little League Baseball. Her father, Bob Bueckers, coached her in basketball ti she was in seventh grade. Amy Fuller, her mother, was a cross country and track & field athlete at the University of St. Thomas.

Her parents separated when she was three years old. Her mother remarried and relocated to Billings, Montana, and she stayed with her father. She was a member of Hopkins High School’s tenth-grade and junior varsity basketball teams in Minnetonka, Minnesota. When she was in the seventh grade. Next year she joined Hopkins’ varsity team and started six games. 

Unknown Facts

• As of November 2024, she has 2 million followers on her Instagram account.
• She has hosted a charity basketball clinic for young players called “Buckets for Bueckers”.
• Buecker has shown a positive reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement & acknowledged Black women during her acceptance speech at the 2021 ESPY Awards.
• She registered her nickname, “Paige Buckets” as a trademark on 13th July 2021, for use on sporting equipment such as shirts, jeans, jackets, footwear, hats, and uniforms.

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