Senior Spotlight: Emily Lytle
5/7/2020 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Just because Liberty University will not be able to recognize its 2020 graduates this upcoming weekend does not mean Liberty Athletics cannot celebrate its newest graduates.
Liberty University was scheduled to celebrate its 47th Commencement exercises at Williams Stadium on Saturday, May 9. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University has shifted its graduation celebration to the weekend of Sept. 11-12 around Liberty's first home football game of 2020 against North Carolina A&T on Sept. 12.
Liberty University was expected to honor over 21,000 total graduates this May, a number that includes 88 Liberty student-athletes.
In the absence of Graduation Week coverage, Liberty Athletics will run a series of interviews with some of these graduates on LibertyFlames.com and the athletics social media accounts this week.
Today, we continue the website series with Emily Lytle, a redshirt junior member of the women's basketball program, who has completed her bachelor's degree in sport management.
Lytle saved her best basketball for the end of the 2019-20 season, scoring a tournament-high 51 points (25.5 ppg) to earn a spot on the ASUN Championship All-Tournament Team. She tallied a three-point play with 35.6 seconds remaining in overtime at North Alabama, leading the Lady Flames into the championship game for the second consecutive year.
A Memphis, Tenn., native, Lytle ranked No. 7 in the ASUN for three-pointers made (1.7/game) this past season. Through two seasons as a Lady Flame, she sits No. 8 on Liberty's all-time list with 117 triples.
Lytle plans to play her senior season for the Lady Flames in 2020-21 as she begins her graduate studies.
