{"id":700708,"date":"2026-05-28T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:20:11","slug":"nanooks-womens-basketball-signs-big-scorer-khamryn-hopkins-out-of-lincoln-trail-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700708\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanooks Women&#8217;s Basketball Signs Big Scorer Khamryn Hopkins Out of Lincoln Trail College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 FAIRBANKS &#8211; The Alaska Nanooks women&#8217;s basketball team signed Khamryn Hopkins, a 5-5 guard out of Plano, Texas. Hopkins has big scorer potential after two big years at Lincoln Trail College.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to welcome Khamryn to the Nanook family,&#8221; said head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/alaskananooks.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/michael-ricks\/632\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"632\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ricks<\/a> on Hopkins&#8217; signing.\u00a0&#8220;She&#8217;s a dynamic guard and proven scorer who brings speed, playmaking ability, and offensive firepower to our program. Khamryn has the ability to create for herself and others, and we&#8217;re looking forward to the impact her competitiveness and experience will have on our team.&#8221; Hopkins spent two seasons on the court for Lincoln Trail after graduating from Plano West Senior High School in Plano, Texas. In year one, 2024-25, she appeared in 14 games, making 11 starts. She posted 13.0 points per game her first year while adding 3.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 2.1 steals per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her second season, she made big strides and averaged 17.5 points per game for LTC. She shot 35% from the floor in 25 games and 24 starts. On the year, Hopkins had 22 double-digit performances while posting six 20-point games and two 30-pieces, including a season-high 36 points on Dec. 9, 2025, in a 98-92 win over Lewis &amp; Clark Community College. Her two 30-point games came back-to-back as her 32-point game came on Dec. 5. In her Dec. 5 game, she shot 12-24 from the floor, going 6-6 from the free-throw line. In the following game, she shot 15-27 from the floor and 5-7 from the charity stripe. She wrapped up her two-year career with 39 games played and 35 starts. In that time, she averaged 15.9 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 1.8 steals per game while shooting 35.1% from the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After her sophomore season, she was named GRAC All-Conference and Region 24 All-Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, I would like to thank God for providing me this opportunity to continue my basketball and academic journey,&#8221; said Hopkins after announcing her signing.\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank my family for all of their support, and also my coaches and teammates that helped me along the way. I am excited and grateful to work with the staff at Alaska Fairbanks, and ready to\u00a0get to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additional signings for the women&#8217;s basketball team will be announced next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow the &#8216;Nooks<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIG &#8211; @NanooksWBB<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nX &#8211; @NanooksWBB<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFB &#8211; Alaska Nanooks Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; FAIRBANKS &#8211; The Alaska Nanooks women&#8217;s basketball team signed Khamryn Hopkins, a 5-5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-700708","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\/700708","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=700708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}