Abby Meyers will always be a Princeton Tiger and a Maryland Terrapin. She brought Princeton to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with an unforgettable 29-point performance against the great Rhyne Howard and SEC Tournament champion Kentucky, and then went home to play for the Terp program she grew up rooting for and was a key part of getting the Terps past their Sweet Sixteen demons and into their first Elite Eight since 2015.
Long story short, she put her heart and soul into both programs and will always be remembered at each one.
Meyers is from Potomac, Maryland and played at Walt Whitman High School in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, which, like the University of Maryland, is right outside Washington, D.C. When she was a sophomore in high school, her Whitman Vikings made it to the state semifinals. She then guided the team to the state championship as a junior in 2016, scoring 21 points in the final. As a senior, she did even better, notching 26 points and 12 rebounds in the final, but Whitman finished as the runner-up.
Meyers’ legacy at Princeton began when she was a freshman. She dropped 18 points in the Ivy League championship game to help the Tigers earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. After a gap year, an off-year where she averaged 6.3 points off the…
