Melissa Burtscher

12 Melissa Burtscher

Height:

5-3
Year:

So.
Hometown:

Aurora, Colo.
High School:

Vista PEAK Preparatory
Position:

G
Major:

Psychology

gp

20
pts/g

2.8
fg %

23.5
3pt %

22.4
ft %

58.3
reb/g

2.1
a/g

0.9

Bio

2021-22 Golf: Wooster's No. 1, evidenced by second-team All-NCAC honors after seventh-place score of 265 at NCAC Championships (April 29-May 1) … Logged the second-highest conference finish in program history … Averaged a team-leading 83.2 strokes per round … Captured medalist honors with a co-collegiate-best 76 at the John Carroll Spring Shootout (April 10) … Score of 82 garnered medalist honors at Grove City Fall Invitaitonal (Sept. 11) … Capped Heidelberg Fall Invitational (Sept. 17-18) with a 76, with that score tied for the second-lowest round in program history … Runner-up at the Eva Shorb Weiskopf Invitational (April 2-3) after going 85-82-167 and earned NCAC Athlete of the Week honors on April 4 … Tied for third-place at NCAC Preview (April 23-24) with a 36-hole score of 164 and tied for fourth-place at Wooster Fall Invitational (Oct. 2-3) at 168 … Helped team to tournament titles at Grove City, Eva Shorb Weiskopf, and John Carroll events … Leader of Wooster's third-place NCAC finish, with that matching program's highest-ever … WGCA All-America Scholar Team qualifier and member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.

2021-22 Basketball: One of the team's top reserve guards, entering 20 games with three starts … Averaged 2.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 0.9 assists per game … Scored a career-high eight points versus Denison (Feb. 2) and matched that in home finale against Ohio Wesleyan (Feb. 16) … Logged a trio of games with four rebounds and passed out a season-high three assists in three-point win over Kenyon (Jan. 26) … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.

2020-21 Golf: Third on the team with a 92.3 average … Competed in all 12 rounds … Carded a season-best 82 in the opening round of a 36-hole dual against Allegheny (April 10-11) … Fired an 85 at the Wooster Spring Invitational (April 3) and placed third … Logged four rounds in the 80s … WGCA All-America Scholar.

2020-21 Basketball: Spent the year in a developmental role … Entered two games … Made collegiate debut against Denison (Feb. 19).

Prior to Wooster: Helped Vista PEAK Preparatory to a regional runner-up golf finish in 2019 … Part of three conference championship teams in basketball and golf ... Four-year letterwinner in basketball and three-year letterwinner in golf … Prepped for Howard Payne and Amy Severin.

Personal: Born April 21, 2003 … Parents are Penn Schlitt and Missy Cooke … Psychology major and education and physical education minor.

Recent games

Date	Opponent	Result
Feb 8	at Allegheny	L, 57-34
Feb 12	Wittenberg	L, 94-50
Feb 14	Oberlin	L, 88-56
Feb 16	Ohio Wesleyan	L, 76-63
Feb 19	at Oberlin	L, 80-63
Feb 22	at DePauw	L, 72-54

Season Statistics

	Overall	Conference
Games	20	12
Games started	3	3
Minutes	323	205
Minutes per game	16.1	17.1
FG	19-81	13-40
FG Pct	23.5	32.5
3PT	11-49	8-26
3PT Pct	22.4	30.8
FT	7-12	2-4
FT Pct	58.3	50.0
Off rebounds	11	6
Def rebounds	31	15
Total rebounds	42	21
Rebounds per game	2.1	1.8
Personal fouls	6	2
Disqualifications	0	0
Assists	18	12
Turnovers	25	17
Assist to turnover ratio	0.7	0.7
Steals	9	7
Blocks	1	1
Points	56	36
Points per game	2.8	3.0
Points per 40 min	6.9	7.0

Date	Opponent	Score	gs	min	fg	pct	3pt	pct	ft	pct	pts
Nov 10	at Capital	L, 63-51	-	17	3-8	37.5	0-2	0.0	0-0	-	6
Nov 13	Franciscan	W, 65-56	-	20	1-5	20.0	1-4	25.0	3-4	75.0	6
Nov 16	at Westminster (Pa.)	L, 57-50	-	23	0-5	0.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	-	0
Nov 20	Spalding	L, 69-63	0	11	0-5	0.0	0-3	0.0	0-0	-	0
Nov 21	Otterbein	L, 89-38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nov 23	at Wilmington	L, 88-55	0	14	1-7	14.3	1-6	16.7	2-4	50.0	5
Dec 1	at Denison	L, 68-58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 4	DePauw	L, 87-47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 8	Allegheny	W, 58-54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 11	Hiram	W, 66-58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 29	at Marietta	L, 84-29	-	15	0-4	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	-	0
Dec 30	vs. Bethany (W. Va.)	L, 77-52	-	10	1-4	25.0	1-3	33.3	0-0	-	3
Jan 2	Alma	L, 73-49	0	8	0-3	0.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	-	0
Jan 5	at Kenyon		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 8	at Ohio Wesleyan		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 12	Oberlin		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 15	at Wittenberg	L, 84-46	1	21	1-4	25.0	1-3	33.3	0-0	-	3
Jan 22	at DePauw	L, 88-31	0	14	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	-	0
Jan 26	Kenyon	W, 71-68	0	9	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	-	0
Jan 29	at Hiram	L, 80-54	-	13	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-2	0.0	0
Jan 31	at Ohio Wesleyan	L, 89-37	1	35	0-4	0.0	0-3	0.0	0-0	-	0
Feb 2	Denison	L, 81-52	1	36	3-9	33.3	2-7	28.6	0-0	-	8
Feb 6	at Kenyon	L, 75-55	-	12	0-0	-	0-0	-	0-0	-	0
Feb 8	at Allegheny	L, 57-34	-	12	0-0	-	0-0	-	0-0	-	0
Feb 12	Wittenberg	L, 94-50	-	16	2-6	33.3	1-4	25.0	2-2	100.0	7
Feb 14	Oberlin	L, 88-56	0	13	2-4	50.0	1-2	50.0	0-0	-	5
Feb 16	Ohio Wesleyan	L, 76-63	0	13	3-4	75.0	2-3	66.7	0-0	-	8
Feb 19	at Oberlin	L, 80-63	-	11	2-3	66.7	1-1	100.0	0-0	-	5
Feb 22	at DePauw	L, 72-54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Date	Opponent	Score	gs	min	off	def	reb	ast	to	stl	blk
Nov 10	at Capital	L, 63-51	-	17	1	2	3	1	1	0	0
Nov 13	Franciscan	W, 65-56	-	20	0	4	4	0	1	1	0
Nov 16	at Westminster (Pa.)	L, 57-50	-	23	1	3	4	2	1	0	0
Nov 20	Spalding	L, 69-63	0	11	0	2	2	1	2	0	0
Nov 21	Otterbein	L, 89-38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nov 23	at Wilmington	L, 88-55	0	14	1	2	3	0	0	1	0
Dec 1	at Denison	L, 68-58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 4	DePauw	L, 87-47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 8	Allegheny	W, 58-54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 11	Hiram	W, 66-58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dec 29	at Marietta	L, 84-29	-	15	1	1	2	1	2	0	0
Dec 30	vs. Bethany (W. Va.)	L, 77-52	-	10	1	1	2	1	0	0	0
Jan 2	Alma	L, 73-49	0	8	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Jan 5	at Kenyon		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 8	at Ohio Wesleyan		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 12	Oberlin		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jan 15	at Wittenberg	L, 84-46	1	21	0	2	2	1	1	1	0
Jan 22	at DePauw	L, 88-31	0	14	1	1	2	2	3	1	0
Jan 26	Kenyon	W, 71-68	0	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Jan 29	at Hiram	L, 80-54	-	13	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Jan 31	at Ohio Wesleyan	L, 89-37	1	35	0	0	0	2	4	1	0
Feb 2	Denison	L, 81-52	1	36	1	3	4	0	0	0	0
Feb 6	at Kenyon	L, 75-55	-	12	1	0	1	2	0	0	0
Feb 8	at Allegheny	L, 57-34	-	12	1	2	3	0	1	0	0
Feb 12	Wittenberg	L, 94-50	-	16	1	2	3	0	2	1	0
Feb 14	Oberlin	L, 88-56	0	13	1	0	1	2	1	3	0
Feb 16	Ohio Wesleyan	L, 76-63	0	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Feb 19	at Oberlin	L, 80-63	-	11	0	3	3	0	4	0	1
Feb 22	at DePauw	L, 72-54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Date	Opponent	Score	gs	pf	dq	a/to
Nov 10	at Capital	L, 63-51	-	0	0	1.0
Nov 13	Franciscan	W, 65-56	-	1	-	0.0
Nov 16	at Westminster (Pa.)	L, 57-50	-	1	-	2.0
Nov 20	Spalding	L, 69-63	0	0	0	0.5
Nov 21	Otterbein	L, 89-38	-	-	-	-
Nov 23	at Wilmington	L, 88-55	0	0	0	-
Dec 1	at Denison	L, 68-58	-	-	-	-
Dec 4	DePauw	L, 87-47	-	-	-	-
Dec 8	Allegheny	W, 58-54	-	-	-	-
Dec 11	Hiram	W, 66-58	-	-	-	-
Dec 29	at Marietta	L, 84-29	-	1	0	0.5
Dec 30	vs. Bethany (W. Va.)	L, 77-52	-	0	-	-
Jan 2	Alma	L, 73-49	0	1	0	0.0
Jan 5	at Kenyon		-	-	-	-
Jan 8	at Ohio Wesleyan		-	-	-	-
Jan 12	Oberlin		-	-	-	-
Jan 15	at Wittenberg	L, 84-46	1	1	-	1.0
Jan 22	at DePauw	L, 88-31	0	0	0	0.7
Jan 26	Kenyon	W, 71-68	0	0	0	-
Jan 29	at Hiram	L, 80-54	-	0	-	0.0
Jan 31	at Ohio Wesleyan	L, 89-37	1	1	-	0.5
Feb 2	Denison	L, 81-52	1	0	0	-
Feb 6	at Kenyon	L, 75-55	-	0	-	-
Feb 8	at Allegheny	L, 57-34	-	0	-	0.0
Feb 12	Wittenberg	L, 94-50	-	0	-	0.0
Feb 14	Oberlin	L, 88-56	0	0	0	2.0
Feb 16	Ohio Wesleyan	L, 76-63	0	0	0	-
Feb 19	at Oberlin	L, 80-63	-	0	-	0.0
Feb 22	at DePauw	L, 72-54	-	-	-	-

	gp	min/g	fg/g	3pt/g	ft/g	ppg
2020-21	2	2.0	0.0-0.5	0.0-0.5	0.0-0.0	0.0
2021-22	20	16.1	0.9-4.0	0.6-2.5	0.3-0.6	2.8
2023-24	24	18.4	0.8-4.4	0.3-2.3	0.5-0.8	2.3
Total	46	16.7	0.8-4.1	0.4-2.3	0.4-0.7	2.4

Career Stats: Shooting per game

	gp	gs	min	fg	pct	3pt	pct	ft	pct	pts
2020-21	2	0	4	0-1	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	-	0
2021-22	20	3	323	19-81	23.5	11-49	22.4	7-12	58.3	56
2023-24	24	5	441	18-105	17.1	7-56	12.5	13-18	72.2	56
Total	46	8	768	37-187	19.8	18-106	17.0	20-30	66.7	112

Career Stats: Shooting totals

	gp	min	min/g	fg/40	3pt/40	pct	ft/40	pts/40
2020-21	2	4	2.0	0.0-10.0	0.0-10.0	0.0	0.0-0.0	0.0
2021-22	20	323	16.1	2.4-10.0	1.4-6.1	22.4	0.9-1.5	6.9
2023-24	24	441	18.4	1.6-9.5	0.6-5.1	12.5	1.2-1.6	5.1
Total	46	768	16.7	1.9-9.7	0.9-5.5	17.0	1.0-1.6	5.8

Career Stats: Shooting per 40 min

	gp	off/g	def/g	reb/g	ast/g	to/g	stl/g	blk/g
2020-21	2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0
2021-22	20	0.6	1.6	2.1	0.9	1.3	0.5	0.1
2023-24	24	0.9	1.5	2.3	1.4	1.9	0.6	0.0
Total	46	0.7	1.4	2.1	1.1	1.5	0.5	0.0

Career Stats: Ball control per game

	gp	gs	off	def	reb	ast	to	stl	blk
2020-21	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2021-22	20	3	11	31	42	18	25	9	1
2023-24	24	5	21	35	56	33	45	14	0
Total	46	8	32	66	98	51	71	23	1

Career Stats: Ball control totals

	gp	off/40	def/40	reb/40	ast/40	to/40	stl/40	blk/40
2020-21	2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.0	0.0	0.0
2021-22	20	1.4	3.8	5.2	2.2	3.1	1.1	0.1
2023-24	24	1.9	3.2	5.1	3.0	4.1	1.3	0.0
Total	46	1.7	3.4	5.1	2.7	3.7	1.2	0.1

Career Stats: Ball control per 40 min

	gp	min/g	fg/g	3pt/g	ft/g	ppg
Event
Total	20	16.1	0.9-4.0	0.6-2.5	0.3-0.6	2.8
Conference	12	17.1	1.1-3.3	0.7-2.2	0.2-0.3	3.0
Exhibition	-	-	0.0-0.0	0.0-0.0	0.0-0.0	-
Location
Home	8	15.8	1.4-4.8	0.9-3.2	0.6-0.8	4.3
Away	11	17.0	0.6-3.5	0.3-1.8	0.2-0.5	1.7
Neutral	1	10.0	1.0-4.0	1.0-3.0	0.0-0.0	3.0
Result
Wins	2	14.5	0.5-3.5	0.5-2.5	1.5-2.0	3.0
Losses	18	16.3	1.0-4.1	0.6-2.4	0.2-0.4	2.8
Month
November	5	17.0	1.0-6.0	0.4-3.4	1.0-1.6	3.4
December	2	12.5	0.5-4.0	0.5-2.0	0.0-0.0	1.5
January	6	16.7	0.2-2.8	0.2-1.8	0.0-0.3	0.5
February	7	16.1	1.7-3.7	1.0-2.4	0.3-0.3	4.7

Splits Stats: Shooting per game

	gp	gs	min	fg	pct	3pt	pct	ft	pct	pts
Event
Total	20	3	323	19-81	23.5	11-49	22.4	7-12	58.3	56
Conference	12	3	205	13-40	32.5	8-26	30.8	2-4	50.0	36
Exhibition	-	-	-	0-0	-	0-0	-	0-0	-	0
Location
Home	8	1	126	11-38	28.9	7-26	26.9	5-6	83.3	34
Away	11	2	187	7-39	17.9	3-20	15.0	2-6	33.3	19
Neutral	1	-	10	1-4	25.0	1-3	33.3	0-0	-	3
Result
Wins	2	0	29	1-7	14.3	1-5	20.0	3-4	75.0	6
Losses	18	3	294	18-74	24.3	10-44	22.7	4-8	50.0	50
Month
November	5	0	85	5-30	16.7	2-17	11.8	5-8	62.5	17
December	2	-	25	1-8	12.5	1-4	25.0	0-0	-	3
January	6	2	100	1-17	5.9	1-11	9.1	0-2	0.0	3
February	7	1	113	12-26	46.2	7-17	41.2	2-2	100.0	33

Splits Stats: Shooting totals

	gp	min	min/g	fg/40	3pt/40	pct	ft/40	pts/40
Event
Total	20	323	16.1	2.4-10.0	1.4-6.1	22.4	0.9-1.5	6.9
Conference	12	205	17.1	2.5-7.8	1.6-5.1	30.8	0.4-0.8	7.0
Exhibition	-	-	-	0.0-0.0	0.0-0.0	-	0.0-0.0	-
Location
Home	8	126	15.8	3.5-12.1	2.2-8.3	26.9	1.6-1.9	10.8
Away	11	187	17.0	1.5-8.3	0.6-4.3	15.0	0.4-1.3	4.1
Neutral	1	10	10.0	4.0-16.0	4.0-12.0	33.3	0.0-0.0	12.0
Result
Wins	2	29	14.5	1.4-9.7	1.4-6.9	20.0	4.1-5.5	8.3
Losses	18	294	16.3	2.4-10.1	1.4-6.0	22.7	0.5-1.1	6.8
Month
November	5	85	17.0	2.4-14.1	0.9-8.0	11.8	2.4-3.8	8.0
December	2	25	12.5	1.6-12.8	1.6-6.4	25.0	0.0-0.0	4.8
January	6	100	16.7	0.4-6.8	0.4-4.4	9.1	0.0-0.8	1.2
February	7	113	16.1	4.2-9.2	2.5-6.0	41.2	0.7-0.7	11.7

Splits Stats: Shooting per 40 min

	gp	off/g	def/g	reb/g	ast/g	to/g	stl/g	blk/g
Event
Total	20	0.6	1.6	2.1	0.9	1.3	0.5	0.1
Conference	12	0.5	1.3	1.8	1.0	1.4	0.6	0.1
Exhibition	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Location
Home	8	0.4	1.6	2.0	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.0
Away	11	0.6	1.5	2.2	1.0	1.6	0.4	0.1
Neutral	1	1.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Result
Wins	2	0.0	2.0	2.0	1.5	0.5	0.5	0.0
Losses	18	0.6	1.5	2.1	0.8	1.3	0.4	0.1
Month
November	5	0.6	2.6	3.2	0.8	1.0	0.4	0.0
December	2	1.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
January	6	0.2	0.8	1.0	1.3	1.7	0.5	0.0
February	7	0.7	1.6	2.3	0.6	1.1	0.6	0.1

Splits Stats: Ball control per game

	gp	gs	off	def	reb	ast	to	stl	blk
Event
Total	20	3	11	31	42	18	25	9	1
Conference	12	3	6	15	21	12	17	7	1
Exhibition	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Location
Home	8	1	3	13	16	6	7	5	0
Away	11	2	7	17	24	11	18	4	1
Neutral	1	-	1	1	2	1	0	0	0
Result
Wins	2	0	0	4	4	3	1	1	0
Losses	18	3	11	27	38	15	24	8	1
Month
November	5	0	3	13	16	4	5	2	0
December	2	-	2	2	4	2	2	0	0
January	6	2	1	5	6	8	10	3	0
February	7	1	5	11	16	4	8	4	1

Splits Stats: Ball control totals

	gp	off/40	def/40	reb/40	ast/40	to/40	stl/40	blk/40
Event
Total	20	1.4	3.8	5.2	2.2	3.1	1.1	0.1
Conference	12	1.2	2.9	4.1	2.3	3.3	1.4	0.2
Exhibition	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Location
Home	8	1.0	4.1	5.1	1.9	2.2	1.6	0.0
Away	11	1.5	3.6	5.1	2.4	3.9	0.9	0.2
Neutral	1	4.0	4.0	8.0	4.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Result
Wins	2	0.0	5.5	5.5	4.1	1.4	1.4	0.0
Losses	18	1.5	3.7	5.2	2.0	3.3	1.1	0.1
Month
November	5	1.4	6.1	7.5	1.9	2.4	0.9	0.0
December	2	3.2	3.2	6.4	3.2	3.2	0.0	0.0
January	6	0.4	2.0	2.4	3.2	4.0	1.2	0.0
February	7	1.8	3.9	5.7	1.4	2.8	1.4	0.4