Wayland High School graduate Presley Hudson Thursday night added another national championship in front of a national audience.
The Central Michigan University senior won the national collegiate three-point shooting contest, not just for women, but for everybody. She won the women’s title by sinking 23 threes in one minute and came back with 25 to defeat the men’s champion, Clayton Custer of Loyola of Chicago.
Hudson, who just completed her four-year career at CMU was one of seven players in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history to hit at least 400 three-pointers. She owns own the school’s records in individual game scoring (43), 407 triples. She holds the CMU single-season record for three-pointers (125), the Mid-American Conference career three-point record and is tied for the CMU single-game three-point record (9). Hudson leaves as the Chippewas all-time leading scorer in program history with 2,309 points and she was the NCAA women’s season champion in free throw shooting with a remarkable 94.4% on 118 of 125 attempts.
ESPN commentators covering the competition reported Hudson swished 77 of her 100 attempts in the overall competition, the highest total in the competition’s history.
While at Wayland, she was a four-year starter, a Division 2 all-state selection and was runner-up in the Miss Basketball balloting in Michigan in 2015.
The best shooter in the entire nation, men or women. An incredible performance. So proud she is a Wayland graduate.
Ms. Hudson,
Congratulation, Wayland is proud!