Fun Facts: Sydney Umeri

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Sydney Umeri appeared in all 31 games last season for the Cavaliers, including 11 games in which she was in the starting lineup. She had her first double-digit scoring game at Liberty, putting up 12 points. Before coming to UVa, she won a gold medal with the 2011 USA Basketball’s U16 team at the FIBA Americas Championship in Mérida, Mexico and helped lead The Lovett School to a 2012 Georgia Region 6AA championship.

Other Fun Facts about Sydney:
– On a game day, she always dances in the locker room.
– She loves basketball because “it teaches me life lessons without me having to learn them in a serious setting.”
– Her favorite food is Greek yogurt.
– Her go-to karaoke songs are “Party in the U.S.A.” and “Call Me Maybe”.
– She claims that what she misses most from being a kid is watching Disney Channel original movies, but she also admits she still watches them now.
– She brings a unicorn Pillow Pet named Drew on road trips with her.
– She once “met” Cam Newton, or at least she stood next to him without speaking with him.
– She loves to cook salmon, broccoli and wild rice for dinner.
– She wants to write for Seventeen Magazine but also has long-range goals of becoming a sports broadcaster and the next Erin Andrews.
– She writes and posts on a personal blog and is also a contributor to the CollegeFashionista blog.