Tatiana Popa Season 2021-22

Honors & Awards
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2021; Spring 2022)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2022)
• No. 263 Player in the Nation (All-Star Girls Report, 2021)

Redshirt (2021-22)
Tatiana Popa redshirted in her first season at Nebraska in 2021-22. She came to Lincoln as a four-star recruit despite not playing competitively as a high school senior at Brewster Academy in 2020-21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Popa closed her junior year at Parkersburg High School in West Virginia. She previously played at IMG Academy and Montverde Academy (2018-19) in Florida. She also competed at Quince Orchard High School in Maryland as a freshman in 2017-18. The 6-5 center/forward was ranked as the No. 263 overall player in the nation by All-Star Girls Report.

Popa’s father, Constantin, was a second-round NBA Draft choice of the Los Angeles Clippers in 1995 after playing basketball collegiately at the University of Miami. He is a member of the Miami Sports Hall of Fame, and played professionally overseas in Israel.

High School
Popa played at multiple high schools and prep schools before signing with the Huskers. She completed her prep career at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, but the school did not compete in women's basketball in 2020-21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She spent her junior season at Parkersburg High School in West Virginia. 

Personal
The daughter of Constantin Popa and Michelle Mazuranic, Tatiana was born Dec. 27, 2002, in Miami, Fla. She two older sisters, Daniella and Dayana, and a younger sister, Dominique. Dayana was a first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference diver as a senior at Missouri State in 2020-21. Tatiana’s older brother, Tristan, was a junior at Davis & Elkins College in 2019-20, after competing at Division I North Dakota State as a freshman in 2016-17 and at Tiffin University in Miami in 2017-18.

Tatiana is majoring in secondary English education and earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall and spring semesters of 2021-22. She was also a member of the 2022 Tom Osborne Citizenship Team. She chose Nebraska over Memphis and Texas Tech.

Tatiana Popa's Career Bests
Points - None
Rebounds - None
Assists - None
Steals - None
Blocks - None
FGM - None
FGA - None
3FGM - None
3FGA - None
FTM - None
FTA - None

Popa's Career Stats

Year	G-GS	FG-FGA	Pct.	3FG-3FGA	Pct.	FT-FTA	Pct.	TRB-Avg.	PF-D	A	TO	Blk	ST	Pts-Avg.
2021-22	0-0	0-0	.000	0-0	.000	0-0	.000	0-0.0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0-0.0
Career	0-0	0-0	.000	0-0	.000	0-0	.000	0-0.0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0-0.0