Black Hills State University Athletics

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Played a key role in the Broomfield High School basketball program since the start of her prep career as she provided steady consistency for the Eagles. Under the leadership of head coach Mike Croell she was been a 3-year starter and enters her senior season as a team captain. Deem enters her final season of high school basketball following a second team all-conference selection that saw her average 6.9 points, 6.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.6 steals, and 1.9 blocks per game. Over the past two years she has put up career-highs of 14 points in her sophomore season against Dakota Ridge, 19 rebounds against Horizon her junior season, and nine blocks and five steals against Fossil Ridge her junior year. On the AAU basketball circuit she plays for BC Denver, a team which appeared in eight tournament title games in 2023 and won their division championship in the annual Run 4 the Roses Classic in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2024. Academically she is an honor roll and academic all-state recipient while also being a National Honors Society member. Sydney is the daughter of Tom and Debbie Deem. Her mother was a former collegiate basketball player herself at Barton Community College and then Colorado University. Additionally, her sister, Samantha, played college basketball at Denver University and then Regis University, and is now playing professionally for Rotenburg in Germany.