CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College women’s basketball is excited to announce the signing of incoming Pitt transfer, Megan Hollingsworth.<\/p>\n
A 6-0 guard from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Hollingsworth is the second international signee for the Eagles.<\/p>\n
“We are excited to welcome Megan to Boston College,” said head coach Kate Popovec-Goss. “Megan has proven that she has the size and athleticism to compete in the ACC. Her offensive versatility will be a great fit in our system, and her ability to guard and rebound will immediately help us. More than anything, \u00a0Megan wants to build a winning culture and is excited to establish our program in the ACC. Welcome to the Heights, Megan!”<\/p>\n
She spent one season at Pitt, appearing in 31 games with 13 starts. The guard averaged 4.4 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n
Hollingsworth scored in double figures in a pair of ACC contests, highlighted by a career-high 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting with a personal-best seven rebounds against SMU. She poured in 12 points against California, hitting four of her six shots.<\/p>\n
The newcomer scored in 27 games, including the final 11 games of the season, with three of her highest-scoring outings during the stretch.<\/p>\n
Hollingsworth was a high school standout at Capital Courts Academy, earning OSBA and WNPH MVP honors while helping her team capture the OSBA and Provincial championships. She played for the Kia<\/p>\n
Nurse Elite on the Nike EYBL Circuit.<\/p>\n
She is the daughter of Michael and Giselle Hollingsworth, has two siblings, Marcus and Mia, and enjoys painting and drawing. She runs her own YouTube channel as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College women’s basketball is excited to announce the signing of incoming Pitt transfer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-664487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}