Mariana Valenzuela

Position:
Forward
Height:
6-2
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Mazatlan, Mexico
High School:
Monteverde Academy (Fla.)
Prev School:
Florida State University

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2024-25 (at Florida State): Played in 25 games, all off the bench... Averaged 3.5 points and 1.5 rebounds in 11.5 minutes per game... Had five points in 12 minutes against Duke on March 2... Tallied five points in 12 minutes at Georgia Tech on Feb. 23... Tallied six points on a pair of made three-pointers with two rebounds at Boston College on Jan. 30... Collected a career-high 15 points on the strength of 3-for-3 shooting from three-point range with six rebounds in 23 minutes vs. Syracuse on Jan. 5... Had 14 points and was 4-for-6 from three-point range with six rebounds vs. Jacksonville on Dec. 19... Had seven points and two steals vs. Drexel on Dec. 15... Tallied 14 points and three rebounds vs. Missouri State on Nov. 29.

2023-24 (at Florida State): Did not play due to injury.

2022-23 (at Florida State): Played in 33 games, all off the bench... Averaged 5.9 points and 3.9 rebounds in 17.1 minutes per game... Emerged as one of the best knock-down shooters in the ACC, shooting 49.7 percent from the floor (72-of-145)... Shot 53.3 percent (40-of-75) from 3-point range... Recorded six games in double-figure scoring… Had Eight points at Clemson… Pulled down 10 rebounds vs. Wake Forest… Recorded eight points with six rebounds vs. No. 16 Duke… Had 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting vs. Pittsburgh… Added seven points and four rebounds vs. No. 11 NC State… Notched 11 points with three 3-pointers vs. Clemson… Tallied nine points in 18:28 vs. Miami… Totaled 11 points with four rebounds vs. No. 9 UConn… Had 12 points and nine rebounds in 20 minutes vs. Presbyterian… Tallied eight points and four rebounds vs. Stetson… Career-best performance in her home country of Mexico, scoring 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting off the bench with six rebounds vs. Harvard at the Cancun Challenge… Had 11 rebounds at Houston… Notched 13 points, five rebounds and a key 6-0 run by herself in the fourth quarter vs. Florida… Had eight points and six rebounds at Kent State… Tallied nine rebounds in season opener vs. Bethune-Cookman... Named to the ACC All-Academic Team.

2021-22 (at Florida State): Played in 22 games, all off the bench... Averaged 2.1 points and 2.3 rebounds in 10.0 minutes per game... Shot 48.6 percent (17-of-35) from the field while averaging 2.1 points per game… Went 4-of-7 from beyond the arc, shooting 57.1 percent for the season… Had seven points along with eight rebounds in her FSU debut vs. UNF… Tallied nine rebounds against Milwaukee… Pulled down six rebounds at Syracuse… Seven points and three boards vs. Boston College… Added seven points and two assists vs. No. 22 Georgia Tech.

High School / Personal: Rated 95th overall, and 18th-best forward, in the 2021 class by ESPN’s HoopGurlz… Named Player of the Game six times in Montverde’s 2020-2021 season… Represented Mexico at the 2019 FIBA U16 Americas Women’s Championship where in six games she averaged 13.3 points and 15.3 rebounds, along with two 20-rebound performances… In all five games of the 2019 Centrobasket U17 Championship, Valenzuela averaged 14.4 points and 11.4 rebounds, recording double-doubles in each matchup… Participated in the NBA Academy Women’s Program Latin America Camp in March 2019… Joined the NBA Academy Women’s Program for a three-day minicamp at the NCAA Women’s Final Four in 2019.