Denim DeShields

Class:
Senior
Position:
G
Height:
5-5
Experience:
TR
Hometown:
Atlanta, Ga.
High School:
McEachern
Prev. School:
Mississippi State

At Mississippi State
Spent one season at Mississippi State … Played and started in all 34 games during the 2024-25 season … Averaged 5.7 points and 3.2 assists in 26.9 minutes per game … Held the third best free throw percentage on the team, shooting 80% … Scored her 1000th career point against Texas A&M … Led the team in assists in 12 game … Tallied four games in double digit scoring … Tied a career-high four made 3-pointers against Florida.

At UAB
Spent two seasons at UAB … 2024 American Athletic Conference All-Conference Third Team … 2023 Conference USA All-Freshman Team … Earned three Conference USA Freshman of the Week selections … Played in all 63 games over her two years, starting everyone except for two … Earned 38 double digit scoring games and 12 games over 20 points … Dished out 30 games of five or more assists … Averaged 13.4 points, 5.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds in 33.3 minutes per game during her sophomore season … Led the AAC with 5.3 assists per game in 2023-24 … Tallied 170 assists to mark the fourth-best single-season total in program history … Notched a +1.4 assist/turnover ratio her sophomore year, which ranked seventh in the AAC … Led the team in assists per game both seasons and finished in the top two in average points … Led all Conference USA freshman with 132 assists.

High School
Played at McEachern High School and La Lumiere School … Rated a three-star prospect and the 20th-overall point guard in the 2021 class by espnW HoopGurlz … After originally committing to Indiana State due to the COVID-19 pandemic limitations throughout her recruitment process, DeShields attended La Lumiere School for a prep season … Averaged 15.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game and led La Lumiere to a 19-5 record … 2021 Georgia High School Association (GHSA) First Team 7A … Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) All-State selection … 2021 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Honorable Mention 7A All-State honoree … Posted 12.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game in her senior season at McEachern … Averaged 16.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game in her junior season.

Personal
Born Oct. 29, 2003 to Tisha and Delino DeShields … Has four siblings, two brothers, Delino Jr. and D’Angelo, and two sisters, Diamond and Delaney … Mother, Tisha, was a 1991 NCAA Outdoor All-American in the heptathlon at Tennessee and a member of the Delaware Track and Field Hall of Fame … Father, Delino, was drafted out of high school as the 12^th overall pick in the 1987 MLB Draft … Delino played 13 major league seasons and is now currently the manager of the Harrisburg Senators, the Double-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals … Brother, Delino Jr., was selected eighth overall in the 2010 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros … Sister, Diamond, was multiply named an All-American and All-SEC selection at Tennessee … Diamond was named the 2014 National Freshman of the Year by multiple outlets … Diamond was the third overall pick in the first round of the 2018 WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky … Diamond won the 2021 WNBA Championship with the Sky and currently plays for the Connecticut Suns … Plans to explore opening her own business after basketball ... Entrepreneurship major.