Former Cards’ standout Wilcox finds a home at UNH

Former Guertin standout Brianna Wilcox, second from left, joins Talia Davis,left, Kenzie Matulonis and Sophia Widmeyer as UNH women's hoop coach Kelsey Hogan's recruiting class for the upcoming season. (Photo courtesy of UNH Athletics)
DURHAM, N.H. – Former Bishop Guertin HIgh School girls basketball standout Brianna Wilcox of Londonderry has found a basketball home for this coming season.
Wilcox was one of two newcomers to the Wildcats class announced by Wildcats head coach Kelsey Hogan. It’s another Nashua connection to the program, as Hogan is a former Nashua North standout.
Sophia Widmeyer (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) and Wilcox are the two newest Wildcats. They join Talia Davis (Dedham, Mass.) and Kenzie Matulonis (Raynham, Mass.), both of whom signed a National Letter of Intent this past November.
Wilcox, who graduated from BG in 2020, was one of Guertin’s most tenacious players both offensively and especially defensively during its championship runs from 2017-2020, that final year a shared title with Goffstown due to the pandemic.
She attended Bradford Christian Academy The 5-8 guard was named to the All-State First Team as a senior. Wilcox was an All-State Second Team selection as a junior and was a two-time All-State Honorable Mention. She was also a Nashua Telegraph First Team All-Star her senior season.
Widmeyer joins UNH as a transfer from Providence College. The 5-foot-11 forward played in 57 games, including all 21 in the 2020-21 season, with seven starts in three years for the Friars. She made the Big East All-Academic Team in 2019 and 2020 and was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society, in 2021.
Widmeyer was a 2018 graduate of Marianapolis Prepatory School, where she lettered in basketball, volleyball and track & field. She was a two-time NEPSAC Class A All-Star (2016-17 and 2017-18), and as a senior Widmeyer was captain and named team MVP of all three sports. She helped lead Marianapolis Prep to the conference title as a junior and a runner-up finish as a senior.
As a freshman at Dartmouth High School, she was a varsity letterwinner in basketball, volleyball, track & field, rugby, soccer, ultimate frisbee and field hockey.
As for the other recruits who were already in the fold, Davis is a 2021 graduate of The Rivers School who averaged 13 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals per game as a senior captain in the 2020-21 season to garner team MVP honors.
As a junior, Davis was named to the NEPSAC Class AA All-Star Team and All-NEPSAC First Team; she averaged 12 points, eight rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game. She was ranked eighth in Massachusetts by Prep Girls Hoops New England (Spring/Summer 2020).
The 6-foot forward/guard swing player first attended Milton Academy, where she became the first eighth grader to play varsity; she went on to be captain and team MVP as a sophomore in the 2017-18 season. She also played for both the Lady Rivals and Mass Mavericks club teams.
Matulonis is a 2021 graduate of Raynham Regional High School. The 5-6 guard was named Massachusetts Player of the Year by Max Preps as a senior captain, when she averaged 16.1 points, 5.9 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 4.6 steals per game. Her other accolades in 2020-21 included Boston Globe Super Team, Boston Herald Dream Team, Southeast Conference First Team and Brockton Enterprise All-Scholastic.
Matulonis led the Trojans to the D1 state semifinals for the first time in 30 years, the South sectional final and Eastern finals appearance as a junior in 2019-20. She averaged 10.9 points, 5.7 assists, 5.6 rebounds and 4.2 steals per game that year to garner Southeast All-Conference All-Star recognition as well as both Boston Herald and Brockton Enterprise All-Scholastic.
Matulonis was named to the Old Colony League All-Conference First Team as a sophomore (2018-19). She was also an All-Scholastic selection by both the Brockton Enterprise and Taunton Gazette.
Matulonis also played for the Baystate Jaguars club team, which won the 2019 Rose Classic and Run for Roses titles, as well as the Boo Williams title in ’18 and ’19.
(Telegraph staff writer Tom King contributed to this report.)