Wright Set To Begin Pro Career In Sweden

ORLANDO – One of the best to don a Knights uniform, UCF women's basketball alumna Kay Kay Wright has added another accolade to her resume: professional basketball player.
 
Wright has signed on to begin her professional basketball career overseas, inking a deal with Ostersund Basket in Sweden.
 
The Orlando native finished her career ranked in the top 10 in six career categories. She's the only Knight in program history to rank in the top five of UCF's career charts in points, assists and steals. She is also the only Knight to tally 1,600 points, 400 assists and 250 steals during her tenure with the Black and Gold
 
A five-time American Athletic Conference Player of the Week, she was the first Knight to earn multiple weekly league honors in multiple seasons. Wright was also the first Knight to earn the USBWA National Player of the Week honors, collecting the laurel during her breakout junior campaign.
 
Wright was a key contributor during UCF's historic 2018-19 campaign, averaging 18.0 points per game, 4.1 rebounds per contest, 3.5 assists per game and 1.9 steals per contest. She started the season with 18 consecutive double-digit scoring performances and finished with 29 double-figure scoring games. Not only did Wright help UCF to its first appearance in the American Athletic Conference Championship title game, she also led the Knights to the first at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in program history.
 
Following her outstanding junior season, the preseason praise was abundant for Wright entering her senior campaign. She was placed on the watch lists for the 2020 Nancy Lieberman Award, which recognizes the top point guard in women's NCAA Division I basketball, and the Women's Citizen Naismith Trophy as one of the top 50 players in the country.
 
She was also tabbed as the American Athletic Conference Co-Preseason Player of the Year. Not only was she the first Knight to earn the distinction in The American, she was the first to collect the accolade since Emma Cannon was named the 2009 Conference USA Preseason Player of the Year.
 
Wright poured in a career-best 37 points while shooting nearly 62 percent from the floor and dished out six assists in her final game in Addition Financial Arena.  
 
The guard became the first Knight in program history to earn back-to-back first team honors in The American and the first since Celeste Hudson (ASUN 2003-05) to repeat as a first team member. The senior point guard finished league play ranked in the top 10 in six different statistical categories. She led the league at the free throw line, shooting 90.9 percent. Wright was also second in scoring (19.4), sixth in assists (4.2), tied for sixth in steals (2.1), eighth in assist-turnover ratio (1.3) and ninth in field goal percentage (42.3).

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