Julia Ayrault is attracting national attention for her play on the court for the Michigan State women’s basketball team.
The graduate student guard/forward was among 50 players named to the midseason watch list for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which is annually presented to the women’s national player of the year. Ayrault was selected to the watch list by members of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Ayrault has played a key role in helping the Spartans find themselves in the top 25 of the national rankings and in fourth place in the Big Ten standings entering their matchup against rival Michigan on Sunday (2 p.m., FS1). She leads MSU in scoring (16.0 points per game), rebounds (7.9) and blocks per game (1.5) and has six double-doubles this season.
Ayrault ranks in the top 15 in the Big Ten in scoring (11th), rebounding (12th) and blocks (seventh).
The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award watch list features seven players from the Big Ten. The others included USC’s JuJu Watkins, UCLA’s Lauren Betts, Jaloni Cambridge and Cotie McMahon from Ohio State, Maryland’s Kaylene Smikle and Rutgers’ Destiny Adams.
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This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: MSU’s Julia Ayrault named to Ann Meyers Drysdale Award watch list
