Gibson Selected 1st in Puerto Rican Draft
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico – Former Oregon State women’s basketball player Ali Gibson has been selected by Las Pollitas de Isabela with the first overall pick in the 2015 BNSF Draft. The BNSF is the highest league for women’s basketball in Puerto Rico.
Gibson helped the Puerto Rican National Team to a silver medal at the FIBA Americas Centrobasket Femenino in Monterrey, Mexico in July 2014. In five games with the national team last summer, Gibson was Puerto Rico’s third-leading scorer, averaging 8.4 points while also contributing 2.8 rebounds and 2.0 steals.
One of just 18 players in Oregon State history to reach the 1,000-point mark, Scott Rueck often refers to Gibson as “the perfect person at the perfect time.” The Woodbridge, Calif., native helped engineer a renaissance in the Oregon State women’s basketball program, culminating in a Pac-12 title her senior season. She started all 131 games the Beavers played in her four seasons with the team, amassing 1,262 points, good for eighth in school history. She also knocked down 178 3-pointers, tied for second most in the OSU record book.
A Pac-12 All-Freshman honoree in 2012, Gibson recorded five 20+ point games in her career, and scored in double-figures 62 times. As the Beavers lone senior in the 2014-15 season, she served as a leader both on the floor and in the locker room, and ender the year averaging 8.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
