Need more? She’s done a ton of community work, set all these marks despite having her career put on hold for a year because COVID shut things down - she remained sharp by practising on an outdoor elementary school court - and even competed in the playoffs last year with a broken shoulder. And as mentioned, she set the school’s all-time scoring record (1,857 points). She led all of Canada in scoring (27.3 points per game) and three-pointers made (63) this year. She’s been to nationals twice, winning the title once. So we’ll leave it to others debate who’s the greatest - don’t forget to throw Taylor Chiarot’s name in there while you’re at it - but Gates surely has built a case for herself. “When you get to that level, how do you discern between the two of them?”įair point. What does longtime head coach Theresa Burns think? She’s coached them both. That’s the “Greatest Of All Time” for those not up on their sports lingo. “Danielle is a whole other level of basketball,” she says.
The 24-year-old majored in human behaviour but she may as well have majored in humility. Soon as you do, she runs away from the comparison at about 100 miles an hour. The McMaster guard became the second player from the school ever to take the Nan Copp Award, following in the footsteps of Danielle Boiago who did it in 2017.Ĭouple this with the fact that she passed Boaigo as the Marauders’ all-time leading scorer late in the season and she might be able to claim rights as the best player to ever wear maroon. “My hands were definitely sweating and my heart was pounding,” Sarah Gates says. Sitting in the crowd in dress shoes rather than sneakers waiting to hear whether she was going to be named the top player in Canadian university basketball, on the other hand? Yet there, in that environment, she appeared calm. A turnover here or a miss there and things could’ve turned out far differently. So much of McMaster’s national championship in her sophomore season was stressful.
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