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2018-19 Women's Basketball Roster

Jen Wellnitz #1 G

  • Position:
    Guard
  • Class:
    Redshirt Senior
  • Highschool:
    Black Hawk
  • Hometown:
    South Wayne, Wis.

Summary

Biography

GREEN BAY CAREER

2018-19 Season (Redshirt Senior Season)

  • Named the Horizon League’s Defensive Player of the Year in both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 season, along with First Team All-Horizon League honors this year
  • Triple Back-to-back seasons as a member of the league’s all-defensive team
  • Preseason First-team all-league selection this year
  • Scored a career-high 21 points at Northern Kentucky (1.5.19)
  • Led the Horizon League in Assist/Turnover ratio at 2.9 


2017-18 Season (Redshirt Junior Season)

  • Named the Horizon League's Defensive Player of the Year
  • Second-straight season as a member of the league's all-defensive team
  • Scored a season-high 14 points vs. Youngstown State (3.5.18)
  • Doled out a career-high nine assists at Oakland
  • Enters the NCAA Tournament ninth in a single season for assists in the division I era with 138
  • Led the Horizon League in Assist/Turnover ratio at 2.9


2016-17 Season (Redshirt Sophomore Season)

  • Named to the All-Horizon League Defensive Team
  • Scored a career-high 15 points on three separate occasions this season - (at SDSU 12.9 / vs Valpo 1.17 / vs Milwaukee 3.6)
  • Finished 6-of-7 with career-high 15 points in win at South Dakota State (12.9.16)
  • Tied her career high with seven rebounds in Horizon League Semifinals vs Milwaukee (3.6.17)
  • Doled out a career-high nine assists twice this season - (vs Wisconsin 12.15 / vs Cleveland State 2.9)
  • Claimed a career-high 8 steals vs Drake (12.3)
  • Blocked two shots vs UIC (2.20)
  • Finished the season in a tie for third place on Green Bay’s single season steals list with 94


2015-16 (Redshirt Freshman Season) 

  • Hit game-winning shot, and recorded first collegiate block in double-overtime HL semi-final victory over NKU (3/12).
  • Scored career-high 6 points in career-high 18 minutes of action at Butler (12/9).
  • Handed out career-high 4 assists in win over in-state rival Wisconsin (12/13).

2014-15 Season (Redshirt)

  • Redshirted true freshman season

PREP CAREER


Ranked 124 in the class of 2014 by Blue Star Basketball...Three-time WBCA All-State First Team...three-time AP All-State honoree...Three-time Six Rivers East Conference Player of the Year...Named the Wisconsin State Journal All-Area Girls Athlete of the Year...finished HS career setting school records in points (1,580), rebounds (832), assists (459) and steals (449)...averaged 23.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 6.2 steals as a senior...Also competed in track & field, softball and volleyball...Won the WIAA Division 3 100m dash title in 2013 and 2014, and finished fourth in the 200m in 2013...Named a WIAA Scholar-Athlete...Played AAU with Wisconsin Academy.

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Historical Player Information

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    2014-15Freshman

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    2015-16Redshirt Freshman

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    2016-17Redshirt Sophomore

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    2017-18Redshirt Junior

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    2018-19Redshirt Senior

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