Girls basketball: Flower Mound duo signs with national powers Texas, North Carolina State
At 6-9, Abbie Boutilier will be the tallest player in UT history; Maddie Cox joins three sisters who played college sports.
FLOWER MOUND — Abbie Boutilier has always been the tallest player on the basketball court. She was 6-foot in sixth grade, and by the time she got to high school she had grown to 6-4 or 6-5.
Now, the 6-9 Flower Mound senior post player will be the tallest player to ever play for the University of Texas.
Boutilier signed with UT on Wednesday, the first day of the early national signing period for sports other than football. The
Austin American-Statesman reported that 6-8 Ellen Bayer was previously the tallest player in UT history. The tallest player on this year’s Texas team is 6-5 junior center Femme Masudi.
“I think it’s really cool,” Boutilier said. “I’ve always grown like four inches a year.”
It was a big day for the Flower Mound girls basketball team, as four-star senior forward Maddie Cox signed with North Carolina State. Boutilier and the 6-3 Cox both signed with teams that reached the Elite Eight last season and that started the season ranked in the top 10 in the nation, with Texas at No. 3 and North Carolina State at No. 10.
Boutilier is the
No. 2-ranked recruit in the Dallas area, and Cox is No. 3. Cox is rated the 71st-best player in the nation in the Class of 2023 by ESPN’s HoopGurlz.
Cox’s parents both played college basketball, and she has three sisters who have played college sports. Her oldest sister Lauren was a three-time All-American in basketball at Baylor, was the
No. 3 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft and played two seasons in the WNBA. She now plays professionally overseas in Spain.
Whitney Cox plays basketball at Lubbock Christian, and Kaylee Cox plays volleyball at Missouri. It made for some intense family competitions.
“H-O-R-S-E games, anything, you name it, it was really competitive,” Cox said.
Kaylee won a state title and was
The Dallas Morning News all-area volleyball player of the year as a sophomore in 2018, and Lauren was a McDonald’s All-American and was the nation’s No. 1 recruit. Did Maddie feel any pressure following in their footsteps at Flower Mound?
“I think when I was a little bit younger, but as I got older, I was like, ‘I’m my own person,’ " she said.
Girls basketball: Flower Mound duo signs with national powers Texas, North Carolina State
Player School Height Pos. College
1. Kylie Marshall Mansfield Lake Ridge 5-11 G Committed to Texas A&M
2. Abbie Boutilier Flower Mound 6-9 P Committed to Texas
3. Maddie Cox Flower Mound 6-3 F Committed to North Carolina State
4. Julianna LaMendola Coppell 6-1 G Committed to Indiana
5. Victoria Flores Duncanville 5-9 G Committed to TCU
6. Jadyn Atchison Cedar Hill 6-1 G Committed to Colorado
7. Amarachi Kimpson Little Elm 5-7 PG Committed to UNLV
8. Savannah Catalon Mansfield Legacy 5-7 G Committed to Seton Hall
9. Imani Morris Duncanville 6-4 P Committed to Memphis
10. Salese Blow Plano 5-11 G Committed to Wichita State
11. Lydia Cooke-Wiggins John Paul II 5-6 G Committed to Stephen F. Austin
12. Joy Madison-Key South Grand Prairie 5-8 G Committed to Tulane
13. Reagan Jackson Kennedale 5-9 G Committed to Cincinnati
14. Jordyn DeVaughn Frisco Lone Star 5-6 PG Committed to Air Force
15. Camryn Tade Southlake Carroll 5-10 G Uncommitted
16. Maddie Heiss Bishop Lynch 5-10 G Committed to Buffalo
17. Torie Sevier Denton Braswell 6-4 F/C Committed to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
18. Kelis Grant Cedar Hill 5-7 G Committed to Sam Houston State
19. Tatum West Crandall 6-2 P Committed to Northern Colorado
20. Katelyn Jones Argyle 5-8 G Committed to Siena
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