Accolades:
GNAC All-Academic: 2020, 2021, 2022
D3hoops.com 2nd Team All-Region: 2021, 2022
All-GNAC 1st Team: 2022
All-GNAC 2nd Team: 2020
GNAC All-Tournament Team: 2020, 2022
MWBCA Player of the Week: 1/13/2020, 12/6/2021, 1/3/2022, 2/14/2022
MWBCA Honor Roll: 11/15/2021, 12/13/2021. 1/17/22, 2/7/2022, 2/21/2022
MWBCA All-State 1st Team: 2022
GNAC Honor Roll: 1/13/2020, 1/27/2020, 11/15/2021, 12/6/2021, 12/13/2021. 1/17/2022, 2/7/2022, 2/14/2022, 2/21/2022
WBCA All-American Honorable Mention: 2022
2021-22: Started in all 27 games as a senior guard…averaged a team high 17.7 points with 3.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game…shot .472% (170-360) from the floor, .408% (69-169) from deep, and .814% (70-86) from the line…led the team with 30 minutes per game…Stapelfeld racked in the awards getting All-GNAC first team, GNAC All-Academic team, MWBCA All-State first team, WBCA All-American Honorable Mention, GNAC All-Tournament Team, D3hoops.com 2nd Team All-Region, and GNAC All-Academic…tallied a season high 51 minutes as well as 26 points on 8-14 shooting while knocking down 5-9 from behind the arc, plus five assists and two steals in a 3OT in against Husson on November 20th…scored 25 points on 10-22 shooting in a win against Regis on December 8th…scored a game high and career high with 29 points as well as six rebounds in a win against Anna Maria on February 9th…in a first round matchup with Rivier, she scored a team high 24 points on 9-15 from the floor and 4-8 behind the arc, also tallying seven rebounds and four assists.
2020-21: In a shortened six game season, Staplefeld averaged 14.5 points per game with a 45.5% FG percentage (30-66), knocked down 13 threes, shooting 41.9% from the arch (13-31), as well as shooting an impressive 81% (13-16) from the free throw line...Staplefeld’s best performance was in an 81-63 victory over Colby College, where she played 31 minutes and lead the Monks in scoring with 16 points on 6-11 shooting...the junior guard shot 3-5 from the three as well as contributing four assists in the win...another impressive performance was in a 61-31 win over Husson where Staplefeld would score 16 points on 50% shooting from the field...she also grabbed three rebounds and two steals in the win.
2019-20: Played and started in 28 games coming in during her junior year…averaged 27.6 minutes per game and scored an average of 10 points per game with a shooting percentage of 39.2% (112-286) and 34.7% (51-147) from the three-point range…had an impressive 87.3% (48-55) free throw percentage…averaged 1.5 assists per game…on Nov. 9th vs. Wellesley College she scored 21 points shooting 50% (8-16) from the field and was five-for-eight in the three-point range…on Nov. 23rd in the win over Husson University Stapelfeld scored 20 points and was perfect from the free throw line (2-2)…scored another 20 points three days later on Nov. 26th in the win at University of Maine – Farmington with a shooting percentage of 72.7% (8-11)...on Jan. 7th scored 21 points against Worcester State University…scored her 1,000th point after posting 20 points on Jan. 25th in the win over Albertus Magnus College…scored another 21 points in the championship game vs Emmanuel College on Feb. 29th after going five-for-six from downtown.
2018-19: As a sophomore at Simmons University, Stapelfeld played in 25 games with 23 starts and averaged 21.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.5 steals per contest while shooting 43.9% (182-415) from the floor, 35.8% (54-151) from three-point distance, and 86.5% (128-148) from the FT line…Ranked seventh in the country – and second in the GNAC - in scoring average…Was 15th in the nation – and second in the conference – in FT%...Named NEWBA Player of the Week and listed on the D3Hoops.com Team of the Week on November 26th…Finished the 2018-19 season with a school-record 546 points…Netted at least 20 points in 16 different games, including three 30-point efforts and a program-record 42 points on 17-25 shooting versus University of Saint Joseph on January 29th…Converted 31 straight free throws from December 11 to January 19, the longest streak in the nation at the time
2017-18: As a freshman at Endicott College, Stapelfeld averaged 10.0 points and 1.1 rebounds per game while shooting 45.9% (83-181) from the floor, 40.5% (45-111) from three-point range, and 86.4% (38-44) from the FT line…Selected as the CCC Rookie of the Year after earning weekly conference honors for six-consecutive weeks…Led the CCC in three-point percentage…Scored at least 10 points in 12 different games, including a trio of 20-point performances.
Why Saint Joseph's? For its strong nursing and basketball programs
High School: Four-year letter winner for Hollis Brookline High School...Named to the New Hampshire Basketball Coaches Organization All-State Division II First Team for the Cavaliers following both her junior and senior seasons...Tabbed to the Nashua Telegraph First Team for HBHS...Selected to the Twin State Basketball All-Star Classic and was named the Michael Johnson Memorial Most Valuable Player...Tapped for the NHBCO All-Academic Team…Named the Cavaliers Most Valuable Player and top Offensive Player...Scored more than 1000 career points for Hollis Brookline High School...Member of the National Honors Society at HBHS…Played club for the North Central Blaze and Granite State Rockettes.
Community Service: Volunteered with the Nashua Soup Kitchen, the American Red Cross and Bicycles Battling Cancer.
Personal: Cassandra Stapelfeld, daughter of Dawn and Douglas Stapelfeld…Has four siblings, Cameron, Alex, Maxwell, and Elisabeth.
