ALBANY - Russell Sage College Women's Basketball junior Layla Acosta (Haines City, FL/Haines City) finished fourth in the country with an 89.0 free throw percentage in 2024-2025.
The guard, voted second-team All-Empire 8 Conference, ranked eighth in the Conference in scoring a 12.8 points per-game. She scored in double figures 18 times, including four 20+ point performances, and finished the season with 873 career points, just 127 away from becoming the tenth RSC player to surpass 1,000 career points.
Acosta currently sits atop the program's career record book with an 83.2 free throw percentage and ranks sixth among Gators with 129 career made three-pointers.
She helped RSC (11-15/9-7 E8) qualify for the E8 Conference Championship Tournament for the fifth time in program history.
Gator Bites with Papa John's: With a February 8 win at Utica, the Gators clinched their fifth appearance in the Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament…RSC finished the regular season by winning eight of its final ten games to secure a playoff berth…The season marked the first with Michael Branche as the Head Coach of RSC Women's Basketball…He had been an assistant women's basketball coach since July 2020…12 players, making up just shy of 94 percent of the team scoring returned for the Gators…The dozen combined with five newcomers on this year's squad…RSC finished the regular season with seven of its last eight games away from home…Senior guard Malena Gereau (Schroon Lake, NY/Schroon Lake Central), Acosta, and senior guard Lauren Sanderson (Ravena, NY/Ravena-Coyemans-Selkirk) headlined the returning Gators…Acosta was announced as the Empire 8 Conference Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, February 9…She averaged 20.3 points on 45.8 percent shooting to help RSC clinch a spot in the E8 playoffs with a 3-0 week...Gereau earned third-team All-E8 honors...Sophomore forward Kallie Hopkins (Millsboro, DE/Poly Tech) started the week leading RSC in rebounding a 7.6, good for fifth in E8…Sanderson concluded her campaign tied for tenth in the E8 with 1.8 steals per-game…Senior guard Olivia Huneau (Cohoes, NY/Cohoes), Sanderson, and Gereau were voted captains of the team.
