 Feagin with South Carolina in 2022 | |||||||||||||||
| No. 20–South Carolina Gamecocks | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
| League | Southeastern Conference | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | March 15, 2003 Decatur, Georgia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||||
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| College | South Carolina (2021–2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Sania Nicole Feagin (born March 15, 2003) is an American college basketball player for South Carolina.
Feagin attended Forest Park High School in Forest Park, Georgia. During her freshman year, she averaged 11.6 points, 9.7 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1.6 steals and 4.0 blocks per game. During her sophomore year, she averaged 13.9 points, 10.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 2.2 steals and 3.7 blocks per game. [1] During her junior year, she averaged 17.2 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3.6 blocks, 3.0 steals and 2.5 assists per game, and led Forest Park to the 6A state championship in 2020. Following the season she was named Georgia Gatorade Player of the Year. [2] During her senior year she averaged 18.9 points, 10.3 rebounds and 4.2 blocks per game, and led Forest Park to the 5A state championship runner-up finish in 2021. [1]
She was a four-time All-State selection, including first-team honors as a junior and senior, and was named a 2021 McDonald's All-American. [3] She was a five-star recruit, and ranked the No. 1 forward and No. 4 overall player in the class of 2021 by ESPN. [4] In 2024, her jersey was retired by Forest Park High School. [5]
During the 2021–22 season, in her freshman year, she appeared in 31 games and averaged 1.9 points and 1.5 rebounds per game. During the first round of the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament against Howard, she posted a season-high 10 points and a season-high seven rebounds in 14 minutes off the bench, and helped South Carolina win their second national championship in program history. [6] [7]
During the 2022–23 season, in her sophomore year, she appeared in 27 games and averaged 4.9 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. [1] During the 2023–24 season, in her junior year, she appeared in 38 games, with three starts, and averaged 6.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. She had ten double-figure scoring games, playing a then career-high 15.2 minutes per game. On March 22, 2024, during the first round of the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament against Presbyterian, she scored 12 points and ten rebounds for her first career double-double, and helped South Carolina win their third national championship in program history. [8] [9]
During the 2024–25 season, in her senior year, she started all 38 games, and averaged 8.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. On February 27, 2025, in a game against Ole Miss she scored a career-high 22 points, with six rebounds and five blocks. [10] During the 2025 SEC women's basketball tournament, she scored 38 points in three games, to help South Carolina win the SEC women's basketball tournament, and earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. She was subsequently named to the All-SEC tournament team. [11] Following the season she was named to the SEC All-Defensive team. [12]
Feagin represented the United States at the 2021 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup, where she averaged 5.6 points and 5.0 rebounds and won a gold medal. [13]
On September 3, 2024, she was named to team USA's roster for the 2024 FIBA 3x3 U23 World Cup. [14] During the tournament she was the leading scorer with 44 points in seven games, and won a gold medal. She was subsequently named to the Team of the Tournament and tournament MVP. [15]
Feagin was born to Charles and Sherri Feagin, and has two older sisters, Temeka Adderton and Kiera Wills, an older brother, Jacari Davison, and a younger brother, Jacob Feagin. Her father played college basketball at Morgan State, while her mother played college basketball at Washington. [1]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
| APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
| TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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| 2021–22 | South Carolina | 31 | 0 | 4.3 | 61.8 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| 2022–23 | South Carolina | 27 | 0 | 7.9 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 73.3 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 4.9 |
| 2023–24 | South Carolina | 38 | 3 | 15.2 | 55.0 | 14.3 | 68.3 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 6.7 |
| 2024–25 | South Carolina | 38 | 38 | 19.8 | 59.9 | 33.3 | 79.7 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 8.1 |
| Career | 134 | 41 | 12.5 | 58.3 | 28.6 | 71.4 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 5.6 | |
| Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference. [16] | |||||||||||||
