‘Blessed Beyond Measure’: Paige Bueckers Leads UCONN Women’s Basketball
By Moveiguide® Contributor
University of Connecticut women’s basketball player Paige Bueckers is praising God for a phenomenal start to the season after suffering from a torn ACL last season.
She’s already helping her team find victory.
In her first season as a Husky, Bueckers averaged 20.0 points per game. This season, with just 18 games in, she is averaging 19.8 and is expected to increase that number.
“Blessed Beyond Measure,” the athlete posted on Instagram.
She also included a snippet from her daily devotional: “Your breakthrough could be just around the corner or a long way down the road. Either way, victory is yours. You will see God work through the hard paths and bring good out of it. You will sense his presence during the long wait, see his victorious hand in your battles and experience sweet joy in seeing his touch upon your life. In the meantime, trust him with every detail of your life- big and small, worry about nothing but pray about everything and cling onto hope at all costs.”
Bueckers also shared a series of photos from the 2023 season. The women’s basketball star wrote, “So so grateful to be playing the game I love dump…God is GREAT?? Thank you 2023.”
During her team’s latest win against Seton Hall, Bueckers scored a season-high 32 points. That performance led her team to a dominant 83-59 victory.
Despite colliding with another player and leaving the game for at least 15 minutes, she returned with three minutes left to prove she wasn’t finished.
“When a kid lays there a little longer than normal, it’s obviously a concern,” head coach Geno Auriemma said. “But she (Bueckers) seemed to be okay. She just landed a little hard.
“When the games get physical like it did tonight, she responds a certain way, certainly in that stretch. Maybe we are little gun-shy when something like that happens. It took us a little while to get our bearings.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Bueckers’ first game back after her injury:
After her triumphant return to the game, Bueckers told CT Insider, “I’m still learning how to give myself grace. I’m not ignorant enough to think that it’s going to be a linear trajectory this whole time and I’m just going to be on the up and up, and be the old Paige, and have a great game every game. This is a process, coming back from a major injury, getting my lungs, getting the rhythm and flow back.”
“Part of me thinks it was God calling me to use this. I feel like I’m just gonna have a great story to tell by the end of it,” she told ESPN.
Through her hard work, determination and faith, Bueckers “is a better basketball player now than she was when she was national player of the year,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said.
After their first game, Bueckers posted on her Instagram, “Ahhh… I love it here. GOD IS GREAT!”
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