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Kaydan Lawson
Guard
Position
6'0''
Height
Senior
Class
Cleveland, Ohio
Hometown
Orange HS
High School
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Kaydan Lawson Pronunciation
2023-24
- Named to the 2023-24 ACC Honor Roll
2022-23
- All-ACC Academic Team
- Appeared in 28 games with 18 starts
- Averaged 5.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. Had 30 steals with 15 blocked shots
- Scored a career-high 18 points in the opener against GW, passing her previous high of 14 against BC last season (11/7)
- 5-of-8 shooting for 15 points in the win against Wake Forest (11/13)
- Grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds against Boston College, also logging her first career double-double with 11 points (1/15)
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
2021-22
- Appeared in 26 of 27 games, missing the season-opener at JMU
- Averaged 4.3 points per game with 4.4 rebounds
- Had a team-high nine rebounds against USC, her first time leading the team in rebounds (11/14)
- Scored 10 points in the Richmond game, her first double-digit scoring game of the year (11/29)
- Led the team in rebounding at George Washington while also logging her second double-digit scoring game with 10 points (12/5)
- Made her first career start at Georgia Tech (1/9)
- Grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds at North Carolina (1/20), the highest single-game effort by a Cavalier this season
- Scored a team-high 10 points in the next game at Duke (1/23)
- Scored a career-high 14 points at Boston College (2/3)
2020-21
- Averaging over 20 minutes of play through the first two games of the year
- Had her first double-digit scoring performance against JMU with 12 points, including going 2-of-3 from three-point range (12/3)
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
Background
- Helped lead Hathaway Brown to a Division II state runner-up finish in 2017 before transferring to Orange High for her final three years
- Scored over 1,000 points with more than 500 rebounds in her three seasons at OHS
- 2020 First Team Northeast Lakes All-District
- 2019 Third Team All-State and an honorable mention in 2020
- Named Greater Cleveland and Akron Area Second Team All-Star her senior season
- Averaged 18.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 3.1 steals per game her senior season
Personal
- Younger sister of former Cavalier Dani Lawson (2018-21)
- Parents are Kay Tucker-Lawson and Dan Lawson
- Mother, Kay, played college basketball at Purdue
- Has an older brother, Davaughn, and two more older sisters, Kayla and Tylynn
- Biology major