2008-09: Had her junior season cut short afterjust 20 minutes of play after an injury in the season's openinggame.
2007-08: Started all 27 games as a sophomore...Averaged 8.8 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2,1 assists, and 1.4 steals pergame... Scored a career-high 21 points vs. Caldwell on 12-28-07...Scored 10 or more points 10 times, 20 or more points three times...Made 37 shots from behind the arc and shot .359 percent to placeher 7th in the NE-10...Second on the team with 237 points.
2006-07: Played in 27 games, starting the last 14games of the season... Averaged 4.6 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.0assists, and 0.9 steals per game... Scored six points in her SaintAnselm debut at Pace on 11-17-06 off the bench... Scored 15 pointsin back-to-back games, against Saint Rose on 1-9-07 and againstSouthern New Hampshire on 1-11-07... Led the team in free throwpercentage at 86.4 percent... Perfect from the free throw lineeight times... Third on the team with 99 rebounds.
Previous: A two-sport athlete in softball andbasketball and was the team captain for both sports... A three-timeSun Chronicle All-Star (2004, 2005, 2006), a 2005Brockton Enterprise All-Star, a two-time Hockomock LeagueAll-Star (2005, 2006) and a member of the Top-80 MassachusettsBasketball Team in 2005.... As a senior, she averaged 11.5 points,3.4 assists, 2.5 steals and 6.1 rebounds per game, as well asshooting 79 percent from the free throw line to help her team to a17-5 final record... Was the 2006 Hockomock League Scholar-Athlete.
Personal: Daughter of James and KathleenHiggins... Has one brother, Sean and a twin sister, Katherine, whoplays field hockey at St. Michael's... Ranked eighth in her highschool graduating class... Was a member of the National HonorSociety and Spanish National Honor Society in 2005 and 2006... Wasthe recipient of the Holy Cross Book Award in 2005.... Hopes toenter the medical field...Majoring in biology.
Higgins' Career Highs
FG: 8 vs. Caldwell, 12/28/07
FGA: 14, twice, last at Stonehill, 1/2/08
FG%: 1.000 at Dominican, 12/20/06
3pt FG: 5, twice, last vs. Caldwell, 12/28/07
3pt FGA: 8, three times, last vs. Merrimack,12/30/06
3pt FG%: 1.000 at Dominican, 12/20/06
FT: 4 vs. Bryant, 1/31/07
FTA: 4. vs. Bryant, 1/31/07
FT%: 1.000, eight times, last vs. Le Moyne,2/17/07
Points: 21 vs. Caldwell, 12/28/07
Rebounds: 9 at Merrimack, 1/23/07
Assists: 5, three times, last vs. Nyack,11/15/08
Turnovers: 7, twice, last at Saint Michael's,1/12/08
Blocks: --
Steals: 5 at Stonehill, 1/2/08
Minutes: 33, three times, last vs. Bryant,1/31/07
