Hokie ClubSwanson, from Barrington, Illinois played for two seasons at Purdue where she averaged 8.02 points in her 55 games with the Boilermakers, with eight starts. She scored a career-high 29 points in the penultimate game of the season at Penn State. In that contest she went 10-13 from the field and connected on five 3-pointers, both of which are also career highs. Her freshman season, Swanson played in 27 contests as the Boilermakers went 15-19 and competed in the WNIT. This past season, she was inserted into the starting lineup eight times in 28 games.
2023-24 / AS A FRESHMAN
- Played in 27 games off the bench
- Missed the first five games of the year after a knee injury ended her high school career the previous February, had surgery March 10, 2023
- Averaged 7.1 points in 12.6 minutes per game
- Led Big Ten freshmen and the nation with 4.8 3-pointers per 40 mins, while finishing first in the league and ninth in the country with 22.6 points per 40 mins
- Finished fourth among Big Ten freshmen with 1.5 3-pointers per game
- Added to Big Ten’s highest freshman scoring output of 23.5 points per game, third highest in program history and highest at Purdue in 30 years
- Led Big Ten freshmen in usage rate at 29.4%
- Shot 42% from the field
- Knocked down 41 3-pointers at a 39.4% clip, eighth most triples by a freshman in program history
- Finished fourth among Big Ten freshmen in triples in all games and conference play (30)
- Posted eight games in double figures, including five in her last nine
- Shot 42.9% from distance over five games in the Big Ten Tournament and the WNIT
- Hit double figures for the first time against Indiana State (Dec. 20)
- Drained five 3-pointers against Michigan State to finish with 19 points (Feb. 21)
- Dropped a career-high 25 points with seven 3-pointers in the Big Ten Tournament against Nebraska (March 7) – Purdue freshman single-game record, fourth most triples by a Boilermaker ever, tied Brittany Rayburn’s (2012) Purdue Big Ten Tournament record and the Big Ten Tournament freshman record
- Twice recorded a pair of steals against Wisconsin (Feb. 25) and Michigan (March 3)
NOTABLE
- No. 103 player in the nation, No. 29 guard with a 21 rating by Dan Olson Basketball Report
- No. 8 player in the state by Prep Girls Hoops
- Named 2022 Illinois Miss Basketball and Illinois 4A Player of the Year as a junior
- Invited to the U18 USA Team Trials
- Four-time all-state, all-conference and all-area honoree
- Twice named the MSL West Player of the Year
- Honored as the Barrington Female Athlete of the Year in 2021-22
- Won conference, regional, sectional, super-sectional titles as a junior, reaching the state finals
- Invited to U18 Team USA camp as a junior
PREP
- Played for Barrington Prep
- Closed career scoring 23.1 points per game with 3.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.0 steals as a senior before injury sidelined her in February
- Tallied 21.4 points, 5.2 rebounds behind a 58% clip inside the arc as a junior
- Set the school record for points in a season (750), 3-pointers in a year (86), thrice set the school mark for points in a game (40, 37, 36)
- Averaged 16.5 points, 4.3 steals per game as a sophomore
- Totaled 462 points to average 14.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game during her freshman campaign
PERSONAL
- Full Name: Sophia Annabelle Swanson
- Birthdate: Aug. 3, 2005
- Birthplace: Hoffman Estates, Ill.
- Intended Major: Elementary Education
- Parents: Jim and Sloan Swanson
- Sloan played basketball at St. Joseph's College, winning three GLVC titles and graduating in 1989
- Sloan had a standout career at Hamilton High School earning Second Team All-State and a spot on the 2014 Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Team
- Jim was a three-year football letterwinner at Ohio from 1988-90, leading the Bobcats in receiving with 37 catches for 503 yards and a touchdown as a tight end in 1989
- Siblings: Sam and Audrey