North Jersey girls basketball players to watch during the 2022-23 season

Greg Tartaglia, NorthJersey.com

December 12, 2022 at 4:06 AM·2 min read

The 2022-23 girls basketball season gets started on Thursday across the Garden State. Here are the top players to watch this season in North Jersey.

Julianna Almeida

Saddle River Day junior guard

The 5-foot-9 Almeida provides a post presence, as well as some experience for a team that graduated four starters. She averaged 7.0 points and 6.2 rebounds and led the Bergen County champs in blocked shots.

Isabella Asencio

Immaculate Heart senior guard

Immaculate Heart vs. Saddle River Day in the championship final of the Bergen County girls basketball tournament at Fair Lawn High School on Thursday, February 24, 2022. IHA #1 Isabella Asencio in the first period.

One of North Jersey’s best distributors, the 5-foot-4 Midland Park resident propelled the Blue Eagles to the North Non-Public A title by averaging 12.7 points and 3.2 assists.

Symiaha Brown-Cobb

Eastside senior guard

Eastside point guard Symiana Brown-Cobb (4) dribbles as Passaic Tech's Jessica Rodriguez (5) plays defense. Eastside at Passaic Tech Big North Liberty Division girls basketball from Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022.

Brown-Cobb runs the point for the reigning Passaic County champions. She averaged 11 points and six assists per game in being named to last season’s All-North Jersey second team.

Kylie Cabana

Paramus Catholic junior guard

Midway through her career, Cabana is more than three-quarters of the way to 1,000 points. She led the Paladins in scoring (16.3 average) and rebounding (8.8) a season ago.

Camryn Clark

Paramus senior guard

Clark averaged 15 points per game in powering the Spartans to a Bergen County championship tournament bid and a spot in the North 1, Group 3 playoffs in a 16-win season.

Alyssa Craigwell

Secaucus junior forward

Craigwell averaged 17.1 points, 8.9 rebounds and 3.6 steals to lead her team to last season’s NJIC Liberty Division title, and she added 43 three-pointers for the North 2, Group 1 finalists.

Cayla Menicola

Ramapo junior forward

After leading Mahwah to the Bergen Invitational Tournament title as a sophomore, Menicola has transferred to a Raider squad that will welcome her offensive game (13.8 points per game).

Emma Starr

Northern Highlands senior guard

Starr enters her fourth varsity season off a junior campaign in which she averaged 13.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists and sank a team-leading 51 three-pointers.

Rylie Theuerkauf

Tenafly senior guard

The Wake Forest commit enters her fourth varsity season needing 204 points to reach 2,000 for her career. Theuerkauf averaged 30.4 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.9 steals as a junior.

Mackenzie Ward

Old Tappan senior guard

Ward garnered a spot on the All-North Jersey second team as a junior, averaging 11.1 points and 5.5 rebounds for the top team in the Big North National Division.

Others to watch:

Ron’Shanae Austin, Eastside senior

Jordan Carmosino, Lakeland senior

Tori Criscuolo, Pascack Valley senior

Lily Crowder, River Dell senior

Montana Nicks, Dwight-Englewood senior

Na’Tori Postell, Passaic Charter senior

Julia Schutz, Immaculate Heart senior

Demi Simpson, Teaneck junior

Victoria Sterinsky, Emerson senior

Shannon Tighe, Wayne Hills senior

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