Mercer County senior Timberlynn Yeast will make college choice Monday

Timberlynn Yeast already has scored over 2,100 points and grabbed almost 1,000 rebounds going into her senior season. She will make her college choice Monday. (John Herndon Photo)

Talented Mercer County senior Timberlynn Yeast has been in no hurry to make her college choice — until now.

She now has 23 Division I offers and the athletic guard will make her college choice public Monday.

She had planned her first official visit to Buffalo this weekend before letting me know Friday she would be making her college choice Monday.

“I plan on finding a system where I can just fit in. I like to run and gun and play that style,” Yeast said. “I want a coach that can push me to be the best I can.”

Career-wise, she wants to eventually be a real estate agent and “sell million dollar homes in Friday” but today knows finding the right fit for the next four years is what matters most.

Yeast averaged 20.9 points and 8.4 rebounds per game last year while shooting 52 percent overall from the field and 66 percent at the foul line (she got to the foul foul line 263 times in 31 games).

The Mercer senior has played in 134 games and scored 2,105 points (15.7 per game) and 996 rebounds (7.4 per game), 408 assists (3.0 per game), 337 steals (2.4 per game), and 79 blocks. She’s also a career 53 percent shooter overall from the field.

Yeast had a terrific summer with the West Virginia Thunder and helped her team win the Under Armour Under 17 National Championship. She hit the winning free throw in the championship game.

“My team was pretty stacked, but I was just trying to work on everything during AAU play,” she said. “I mainly just wanted to defend and do what I could to help our team win.”

She knows a lot about winning. At the 2021 Class AA state track meet she won the 400- and 200-meter dashes and was on the winning 4×400 relay team. This year she won all three events again and lost by only four-thousandths of a second in the 100. Her time of 24:45 seconds in the 200  broke a 26-year-old Class AA state record.

“I did surprise myself at state this year. I had only been doing track the last four weeks and to win that many events was definitely surprising,” she said.