Taja Cole Season 2019-20

Career Honors

• ACC All-Defensive Team 2020
• Honorable Mention All-ACC 2020
• ACC All-Academic Team 2020
• Set program record for assists in an ACC season (121)

2019-20 (Grad Student)

• Started each contest at point guard and led the conference in assists with 194 (6.5 per game)
• Averaged 9.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game while shooting 39% from the floor.
• Tallied four double-doubles on the season with two being of the points-rebounds variety and two coming with points-assists. She flirted with securing the program's first triple-double most notably at Syracuse.

Prior to Tech (University of Georgia, Louisville)

• Cole graduated from the University of Georgia in the spring of 2019. She started all 28 games she appeared in for the Bulldogs, averaging 11 points, 5.3 rebounds and a league best 7 assists.
• She was a Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List member for the nation’s top point guard in 2018-19 where she led the SEC and was fifth nationally in assists per game. She was also fifth in the SEC in assist-turnover ratio (2.17). 
• Ranked first in the SEC and eighth nationally with 202 assists in 2018-19. That mark was the third-most in a single season in Georgia's program's history.
• Cole spent the 2015-16 season at the University of Louisville. 

High School

• Ranked 13th overall by Prospects Nation and 25th overall by ESPNW. Was the 8th highest rated guard in the class of 2015.
• Accolades included Naismith Trophy All-American Honorable Mention and WBCA High School All-American Honorable Mention. Cole recorded 13 points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals in 17 minutes in the McDonald's All-American Game. 
• Selected as a 2014-15 Gatorade Virginia Girls Basketball Player of the Year after averaging 19 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 3.5 steals her senior season. She scored 533 points that season, the most at Bird since 1993-94.
• Selected to the USA Today All-Virginia Second Team in addition to being named Conference 12 Player of the Year. As a junior, averaged 24.4 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals to earn a spot on the Group 5A All-State Team.
• Invited to the 2013 U.S. U-16 National Team trials.

 
Personal

• The daughter of Star Wills and Eric Wills, Cole’s birthday is April 1.
• She has seven siblings; Travis, Theo, Laquon, Theonya, AJ, Javonn and Jacobie.