- American Conference All-Academic Team (2024, 2025)
2025 (Redshirt Freshman)
Played in 21 games with 20 starts, logging the fifth-most minutes at 1,600 on the year … collected two assists, setting up the game-winner at Temple (Oct. 30) with her first career and adding another the following game in the American Championships quarterfinal against UAB (Nov. 3), again delivering the ball for the game-winner … took a team third-most 32 shots and was .313 in SOG percentage … earned American All-Academic Team honors.
Prior to UTSA
Attended Mississippi State during the 2024 season, redshirting for the SEC Champion Bulldogs.
High School and Club
Played at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where she graduated in the top five percent of her class as a three-year graduate and helped the Ascenders to a runner-up finish at the 2021 Girls Academy League (GAL) National Championship … was the recipient of the 2022 IMG Academy Athletic & Personal Development Player of the Year Award … a three-year Top-32 selection in the Girls Academy League South East Conference from 2021-2023 … was selected Olympic Development Program (ODP) State Team selection for New Mexico from 2018-2020 and also ODP Interregional Selection (West) in 2019 and 2020 … named to the Top-18 selection to play in Iceland and was selected to the 2019 New Mexico United High-Performance Program as one of three females selected … played club most recently for IMG Academy Elite 06G GAL … in high school, she was the Junior Honor Society President and a National Honor Society member, earning Principal’s Honor Roll every year of school as a 4.0 student … she also ran distance track and cross country, earning 11th place at the 5A New Mexico State Cross Country Championships in 2019 as an eighth-grader and ran for Sol Running Club in U.S.A Track & Field competitions.
Personal
Born in San Antonio on April 28, but was raised in New Mexico, hailing from Rio Rancho … majoring in marketing … the daughter of Margaret and Henry Varela … has two sisters, Sophia and Natalie … father ran cross country at Eastern New Mexico.