Kirby Burkholder is a professional
basketball player
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who plays
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. In college, she played
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basketball for
James Madison Dukes
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winning numerous awards, including Conference Player of the Year. In 2014, she signed contracts with both the Washington Mystics and the Azzurra Orvieto of the Italian A1 League.
Playing as a guard for Orvieto, through the first 20 rounds of the 2014–15 season, she led her team in points and rebounds.
College career
During the 2013–14 NCAA Women's Basketball season, Burkholder finished among the top 7 guards in the nation for the average number of rebounds per game (303 in her Senior season), and among the top 100 players (including centers and forwards) in the nation with 8.7 rebounds per game. She finished 32nd in Free Throw Percentage in NCAA Women's D1 Basketball.
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/ref> She averaged 19.1 points per game during her 2013–14 senior campaign and led her team in steals.Virginia Cavaliers
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, she scored 33 points against a Delaware team who had previously won 44 CAA Conference games in a row and she scored 20 points and got 2 steals vs UCLA
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. In 2014, Conference tournament play, while competing against Drexel, Kirby earned a double-double which included 22 rebounds and 3 steals. Her 22 rebounds against Drexel was a Conference "Tournament Record."
In 2014, she was named the Conference Player of the Year for the Colonial Athletic Association and was named the NCAA Women's Basketball Player of the Year for the state of Virginia by the Richmond Times Dispatch, a Virginia Newspaper. She was also named the "2014 CAA women's basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year."
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Professional career
Kirby Burkholder entered and became a prospect in the 2014 WNBA draft. In April 2014, Kirby Burkholder "signed with the Washington Mystics."
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