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2023-24 Women's Basketball Roster

Tim Phillis
Tim Phillis
Tim Phillis
Tim Phillis

4 Kayla Characklis

  • Height 6-0
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Chapel Hill, N.C.
  • High School East Chapel Hill
  • Position F
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career Highs:

Points 29 2/18/24 vs Rochester
Rebounds 15 11/19/22 vs Alma
Assists 4 Two Times
Steals 4 12/20/23 vs Emmanuel
Blocks 6 11/24/21 vs Albion
FG Made 14 2/18/24 vs Rochester
3PT Made -- -- --

Senior (2023-24): Earned a spot on the D3hoops.com All-Region Third Team, marking just the eighth time in program history a CWRU player has received the honor… Selected to the All-UAA First Team, marking her second-straight all-conference honor… Started all 25 games for the Spartans for the third straight season, averaging a team-high 27.4 minutes per game… Finished the year shooting 57.6% from the floor, a school single-season record, and the 11th-best mark among Division III players during the year… Led all CWRU players during the season with 14.6 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 0.6 blocks per contest… Added 22 steals, and 33 assists… Scored in double figures 19 times during the season, including six games of 20 or more points… Named to the Pablo Coto All-Tournament Team after 14.0 points and 6.0 rebounds over the two games at the event… Recorded a double-double with 15 points and a season-high 12 rebounds against Mount Union on November 28… Scored a career-high 29 points against Rochester on February 18 as part of a stretch of six-straight games of 12 or more points to end her season… Named to the CSC Academic All-District Team and received UAA Winter All-Academic honors… Ended her senior year ranked second in program history in career field goal percentage (52.5%), fifth in free throw percentage (79.6%), 10th in blocked shots (66), 14th in scoring average (12.3), and 19th in rebounds (471)… Totaled 923 points over her three seasons with the team.

Junior (2022-23): Received All-UAA honors for the first time in her career, claiming a spot on the all-conference second team… Started all 25 of the team’s games for the second-consecutive year… Averaged a career-high 11.2 points per game with 5.6 rebounds, while adding 0.8 assists per game, 18 blocks, and 19 steals…  Shot a team-high 50.2% from the floor (the sixth-best in a single season in program history) and made a team-leading 83.3% of her free throws… Scored in double figures 14 times during the year… Scored 16 points with a career-high 15 rebounds against Alma on November 19, and added 12 points and five rebounds the next day against Wooster en route to being named the Most Valuable Player at the Nan Nichols Tournament… Recorded her second double-double of the year with 20 points and 11 rebounds against NYU on January 29… Scored a career-high 21 points with nine rebounds and two blocks against Rochester on February 10… Named to the CSC Academic All-District Team… Received UAA Winter All-Academic Honors… Ended her junior year ranked second among CWRU players all-time with a career shooting percentage of 49.7%, third with a career free throw percentage of 83.2%, and sixth with 1.0 career blocks per game.

Sophomore (2021-22): One of just two players to start all 25 games during the season for the Spartans… Finished third among Spartan players with 11.0 points per game, and led all CWRU players with 7.2 rebounds per contest and a 49.2% field goal percentage… Her field goal percentage was the 15th-highest single-season mark in program history and ranks as the second-highest career mark in CWRU history among players with 75 or more shots made… Added 1.3 assists, 0.9 steals, and 1.3 blocks per game… Shot 83.0% from the free throw line… Blocked 33 total shots during the year, the 14th most in a single season in program history and ranking her 20th in career blocked shots in team history… Registered 15 games of 10 or more points scored, including a career-high 20-point effort against Denison on November 27… Totaled six double-doubles during the campaign…Had a season-high 12 rebounds on three separate occasions during the season… Blocked a season-high six shots against Albion on November 24, at the time tying a school record, and added 14 points and 10 rebounds in the game… Recorded the second-highest single-game field goal percentage in program history, hitting eight-of-nine shots against Carnegie Mellon on February 26 and finishing the game with 19 points and 10 rebounds.

Prior to CWRU: Came to CWRU after spending a year at North Carolina State University, where she did not play basketball... Was a four-year member of the basketball team at East Chapel Hill High School, serving as a team captain during her junior and senior seasons... Coached by Tameka Jones and Michelle Wood... Earned all-conference honors her sophomore, junior and senior years... Averaged 15.3 points per game and scored over 1,000 points for her career... Claimed MVP honors at a pair of winter tournaments... Member of the National Honors Society and the Valedictorian Speaker for her high school... Also played softball.

Personal: Born May 8... Daughter of Greg and Raquel... Her father played basketball at Johns Hopkins... Has a sister, Katie, who rowed at the University of North Carolina.

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2021-22Sophomore

    F
    6'0"
    4
  • 4

    2022-23Junior

    F
    6'0"
    4
  • 4

    2023-24Senior

    F
    6'0"
    4