Brittany Byrd joined the Lincoln women's basketball team as a graduate assistant in 2020 and is in her first season with the Blue Tigers.
Byrd played professionally with the Chicago Legends of the Women's American Basketball Association, breaking the WABA single-game scoring record with a 69-point performance. She averaged 33.9 points and 11.3 rebounds per contest while playing an average of 38.5 minutes per game. Byrd also played on the Al Sahel team in Syria as part of the Arab Women Sports Tournament and for the Chicago Lady Range, a semi-pro team in the Women's Basketball Development Association. A four-year player at Division I Illinois-Chicago, Byrd scored over 1,100 career points to finish 14th in program history.
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