{"id":290337,"date":"2026-05-30T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290337\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:08:10","slug":"womens-basketball-signs-6-5-montenegrin-center-maja-bigovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290337\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball signs 6-5 Montenegrin center Maja Bigovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Head Women&#8217;s Basketball Coach Tammi Reiss announced today that the Gators have signed 6-5 Montenegrin center Maja Bigovic (MAH-yah\u00a0 BEE-goh-vich).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited that Maja decided to come to the U.S. and join our Gators&#8217; family,&#8221; said Reiss. &#8220;She has tremendous mobility and agility for someone with\u00a0her size. She does an amazing job at finishing at the rim, left or right and scoring in the paint. Maja is a great pick and roll player as she can roll or pop and looks to score. Her versatility allows us to play her in the pinch or in the post. I&#8217;m excited to add her size to protect the paint and rebound the ball. She is a tremendous culture young woman who believes in hard work and wants to win championships!&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBigovic played on the Montenegrin National Team from 2023-26, appearing in a number of Eurobasket competitions, as well as the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup 2026 Pre-Qualifying Tournament Mexico, where she averaged 8.3 points and 6.0 rebounds helping the team to a third-place finish.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nShe also took part in the FIBA U16 Women&#8217;s European Championship and the 2022 FIBA U20 Women&#8217;s European Championship, averaging 8.3 points and 6.9 rebounds over the two tournaments. That 2022 team finished first in its division.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBogivic played for ZKK Buducnost Bemax Podgorica in the First \u0410 Women&#8217;s Basketball League of Montenegro and the WABA (Adriatic League), as well as for Darazsak Sportakadmie in the Hungarian B Division.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBigovic&#8217;s sister, Mala, recently announced her decision to attend and play for the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Head Women&#8217;s Basketball Coach Tammi Reiss announced today that the Gators have signed 6-5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-290337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}