Presley Hudson, a 2015 Wayland High School graduate and highly decorated basketball player at central Michigan University, is averaging 15.8 points per game for a team from Gdansk, Poland.
Hudson, daughter of retired Wayland High School varsity basketball coach Mike Hudson, finished her career at CMU last winter, averaging more than 20 points per game, leading the Chippewas to two NCAA tournament appearances, and was national champion in free throw and three-point shooting. After a tryout in the WNBA, she decided to continue her hoops career in Europe.
Hudson is home for the Christmas holiday, visiting with her heavily basketball-minded family that includes her father, brother Wes, who is varsity girls’ coach at Wayland, brothers Avery and Ternor, and sister Parrish, who is a junior guard on the Lady Wildcats varsity.
She shares the WHS single game scoring record of 40 points with Angie Farmer and Stephanie Ainsworth. She scored more than a 1,000 points in her high school career, was all-state. runner-up in the Miss Basketball balloting and holds the CMU career and single-game scoring records.
