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2023-24
Averaged 12.9 points per game, 8.2 rebounds per game and shot .420% from the field in the 32 games she played this season… Started all 32 games this season, leading the Bearcats in points (12.9), rebounds (8.4) and steals (1.2) … Named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention ... Earned CSC Academic All-District honors … Tallied 10+ points in 26 contests and poured in 20+ points in three contests overall … Recorded 10 double-doubles for the second straight season, becoming the first Bearcat to do so since Doris Scott in 1997-99 …. Posted 15 points and career-high 17 rebounds at Kansas, with 8 pts and 10 rebounds coming in the fourth quarter ... Registered 18 points, 12 rebounds, 3 blocks and 3 steals in win vs. Texas Tech (2/3) ... First double-double of Big 12 play at WVU (1/3) with game highs in points (18) and rebounds (11) ... Posted 16 points and 16 rebounds vs. Southern Indiana (12/17) ... Eclipsed 1,000 career points with ninth career 20-point outing vs. Howard (12/13) … Named to 2023 Paradise Jam All-Tournament Team ... Tallied eighth career 20-plus point game with 20 pts vs. Louisville (11/6). 


2022-23
Started all 30 games … Averaged 12.8 points, 8.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.3 blocks in 31.6 minutes per game … Led the team in multiple categories - starts, minutes, points, rebounds, steals; second straight season that Hayes has led the team in starts, minutes, points, rebounds and steals … Her 8.6 rebounds per game led all conference juniors and her 13.0 points per game ranked third … Led the team in rebounds in 23 games … Posted 10 double doubles in 2022-23, the most by a Bearcat since 2016-17 … Has started 78 straight games dating back to her first career start in her freshman season on December 20th, 2020 … Has averaged 30-plus minutes per game each of her three seasons … Totaled 11 games with double-digit rebounds … Averaged 1.3 blocks per game and posted 13 multi-block games in 2022-23 … . Played 30-plus minutes in 15 of 17 conference games … Pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds vs. Tulane (2/18) … Named to consecutive AAC Weekly Honor Rolls on Nov. 28 and Dec. 5 … Selected to AAC Preseason All-Conference Second Team.

2021-22
Played in 28 games with a team high 28 starts, averaging 11.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.3 blocks in 31.3 minutes… Led the Bearcats in points (321), rebounds (190) and blocks (36) … Ranked among AAC leaders in scoring (16th at 11.5), defensive rebounds (10th at 5.0), minutes played (13th at 31.3) and assists (16th at 2.8). … Scored a season-high 23 points on 9-of-15 shooting with five rebounds against Central Mich. (12/01) … had a season-high 11 rebounds, pairing it with 14 points and five assists vs Tulsa (1/29) … Notched 11 points and a season-high seven steals at Marquette (12/22).

2020-21
Played in 24 games with 20 starts, averaging 7.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.1 blocks in 32.2 minutes … Named to AAC All-Freshman Team … Led the Bearcats with 34 steals and ranked third in points (182), rebounds (126) and blocks (26) … Ranked among AAC freshmen in blocks (first at 1.1), defensive rebounds (second at 4.4), minutes played (third at 32.3) and assists (third at 2.7) ... Scored a season-high 20 points on 9-of-16 shooting with four rebounds at Temple (1/13) … tallied 17 points with four assists and two blocks vs. Wichita State (1/27) … Tallied 16 points with eight rebounds against Tulane (1/9) … Grabbed a season-high nine rebounds to go with eight points and three steals against Tulsa (1/6) … Posted seven points, seven rebounds and eight assists vs. Temple (2/3) … Handed out a career-high nine assists vs. UCF (2/13).  

HIGH SCHOOL
Ranked as the No. 116 prospect in the 2020 class by Collegiate Girls Basketball Report ... Tabbed as a four-star recruit by Prospects Nation ... Averaged 18.3 points, 9.6 rebounds, 3.1 steals, 2.0 assists as a senior at Loveland High School ... Named Eastern Cincinnati Conference Co-Player of the Year as a senior … registered the most career points (1,412) and most career rebounds (778) in school history. 

PERSONAL Born Dec. 18, 2001 in Norman, Oklahoma … Daughter of Kristi and Jonathan Hayes … Has three brothers: Jaxson, Jewett and Jonah … Comes from athletic bloodlines: her father, Jonathan, was a former NFL player with the Kansas City Chiefs (1985-1993) and Pittsburgh Steelers (1994-1996), assistant coach with the Cincinnati Bengals (2003-18) and recent head coach with the XFL's St. Louis BattleHawks (2020); her mother, Kristi, was the 1995 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year at Drake and scored over 3,400 points in high school; and her brother, Jaxson, who played at Texas, was the eighth overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks and currently plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.