Hoops History

For the first time in program history, the women's basketball team will compete for the Peach Belt title and can win not only the first conference title in team history but the first women's Peach Belt title in Mountain Lion history (the previous titles were won by baseball and men's soccer) and first women's tournament title in any sport since the women's lacrosse three-peat in Gulf South tournament action from 2016 to 2018.

Junior PBC Player of the Year Mackenzie Johnson continued her impressive scoring season with 27 points. This not only gave her 1,013 points for her career (now second-most on the women's side and fifth-most between both teams since 2011), but it also puts her within striking distance of the women's single-season scoring record, currently held by Ladondra Johnson with a 498-point season in 2013. Mackenzie has scored 493 points so far this year and needs just six to set the record. 

She set the career rebounds record earlier this season and will finish an impressive career as the first with eight hundred boards (832 and counting), making her the first in women's basketball history at Young Harris to tally 1,000 points and 800 rebounds. 

There's also the fact that her 92 games played is the new ninth-best mark in team history, moving past Ladondra Johnson's 91 games. Eighth-most is Peyton Robertson with 94 appearances. 

Mackenzie's classmate Kalen Surles reached a pair of milestones of her own with ninety games played (eleventh all-time) and seventy starts (fifth all-time).