Karissa McLaughlin

Position:
Guard
Height:
5-7
Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
Homestead HS
Hometown:
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Prev School:
Purdue

Honors & Awards:
First-Team All-Big Ten(2018-19)
Big Ten All-Freshman Team (2017-18)
Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (2019-20)
Preseason All-Big Ten (2019-20)
BIG EAST All-Tournament Team (2021-22)
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (11/14/21, 12/6/21, 1/16/22)
BIG EAST All-Academic (2021-22)

2021-22 (Gr.): Averaged 13.1 points and 2.9 assists while starting all 34 games and playing a team-high 34.3 minutes per contest ... Made 87 of the team's 120 3-pointers on the year, shooting 41.6 percent (87-of-209) from behind the arc ... Led the BIG EAST in 3-pointers made (87) while ranking second in 3-point percentage (.416) ... Her 87 triples rank third all-time in program history for a single-season, while her .416 shooting percentage from deep ranks fifth ... Scored in double-figures 24 times, including eight games of 20 or more points ... Opened her Marquette career with a 21-point performance against Alcorn State (11/9), shooting 8-of-15 from the field ... Scored 22 points while shooting 4-of-8 from behind the arc against NJIT (11/12) ... Added a season-high seven assists against Xavier (12/3) ... Tallied a season-high 26 points on 9-for-17 shooting against Seton Hall (12/19) ... Made seven threes in 21-point performance against Georgetown (1/14) ... Scored 24 points against Ball State in the opening round of the WNIT (3/16) ... Dished out five or more assists six times.

Prior to Marquette: She played three and a half seasons at Purdue University, where she was a three-time All-Big Ten Selection and started in 98 of the 105 games she appeared in ... McLaughlin played in eight games during her senior season before missing the rest of the year with an ankle injury ... She holds the program record for most 3-pointers at Purdue (244) and ranks in the top-25 with 1,308 career points ... A career 35 percent 3-point shooter and an 87 percent free throw shooter, she holds career averages of 12.8 points, 3.6 assists and 2.5 rebounds per game ... McLaughlin joined the 1,000-point club in 79 games at Purdue, which was the fifth-fastest mark in program history ... She also holds the single-season 3-point record as she hit 88 triples in 2018-19 ... She helped lead the Boilermakers to the WNIT as a freshman in 2017-18, where they advanced to the Round of 16 ... Purdue missed the postseason in 2018-19 and 2020-21 while the 2019-20 postseason was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic ... During her career at PU, McLaughlin has notched 66 games in double figures, 12 games with at least 20 points, 34 games with at least five assists, 93 games with a 3-pointer, 72 with multiple 3-pointers, led the team in scoring 30 times, assists 49 times and steals 19 times.

High School: A four-year letterwinner at Homestead High School, McLaughlin was named the 2017 Gatorade Indiana Player of the Year and Miss Basketball in the state of Indiana ... She was a three-time first team all-state honoree and a consensus top-75 recruit coming out of high school ... She led the Spartans to a 103-10 mark over her four-year career, including the 2017 Indiana High School 4A State Championship, where she scored 29 points with six assists in the state title-clinching victory ... McLaughlin scored a school-record 2,586 career points at Homestead, adding all-time marks for free throw percentage (92 percent), single-season scoring (778), single-game scoring (40) and single-game 3's (12) ... Her career scoring total is ranked in the top-10 all-time in Indiana and she averaged over 23 points per game for her final three years of high school ... Coached by Ron Parker, she led Homestead to four sectional championships, four conference titles, three regional championships and two semi-state titles.

Personal: The daughter of Bert and Sheila McLaughlin, Karissa was born on Oct, 29, 1998 in Warsaw, Indiana ... She has one brother, Braxton, and one sister, Kendall ... Graduated from Purdue with her degree in management and will pursue a graduate degree in communications and media studies Marquette.