ORONO, Maine — A third member of the talented 2016 senior class of the University of Maine women’s basketball program has inked a professional contract, according to reports.
Mikaela Gustafsson, a native of Sweden, will play for the GiroLive Panthers in Osnabruck, Germany, according a WABI-TV report.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the report, which also indicated Gustafsson has been recuperating from a foot injury and will not be able to open the season with her teammates.
Gustafsson, a 6-foot-3 forward, is the third member of UMaine’s Class of 2016 to sign a pro contact with a German team, although she will not play in the same league as former teammates Anna Heise and Liz Wood.
Wood and Heise will be playing for Wasserburg this season, which reportedly is one division higher than the level of play where Gustafsson’s team competes.
Gustafsson, who worked to transform her game to more of a post player while at UMaine, averaged 8.8 points per game in her senior campaign for coach Richard Barron’s Black Bears, which reached the America East championship game before falling to Albany.
Gustafsson also averaged just over four rebounds per contest.
