Caroline Ducharme from New England is playing her fifth year of basketball at the University of Connecticut.
Caroline Ducharme from Milton, Massachusetts, plays basketball at the basketball capital of the world, the University of Connecticut. Ducharme attended Noble and Greenough School for high school. For the 2020-21 season, her senior year of high school, Ducharme was named the Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year. Along with this, she was a McDonald’s, a SLAM and a Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, All-American in 2021. ESPN ranked her No. 5 in her recruiting class.
In Ducharme’s freshman year at UConn, she played in 31 games and had 11 starts, averaging 9.8 points per game. In January 2022, she scored 28 points, making this her personal best. Ducharme was named to the Big East All-Freshman Team and the All-Big East Second Team.
In Ducharme’s sophomore year, she was averaging 7.4 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.
In her junior year, she was a starter for the first four games of UConn’s season before getting injured. Ducharme was dealing with head and neck injuries as well as a concussion. She was out for 15 months before she fully recovered and played in a game. Since she missed the majority of the season her junior year, she came into the 2024-25 season as a redshirt junior. Ducharme made her season debut on Feb. 22. After that, she played in eight other games.
Ducharme played in the Final Four against the University of California, Los Angeles as well as in the National Championship Game against the University of South Carolina. UConn went on to win the game, and Ducharme became a national champion.
Now, she is a redshirt senior for UConn, and we can’t wait to see how the rest of her season plays out.