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How Mia Broom Became the Breakout Star of the WBIT
4/18/2026 10:08:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Broom increased her scoring by nearly 10 points per game as the Lions swept through the tournament
By: Jenn Hatfield: The IX Basketball
Growing up, Mia Broom always heard her dad say, "If you're not sweating in warmups, you're not warming up correctly." Now a sophomore guard at Columbia, Broom still takes that to heart.
Before her first-ever college game at Duke in December 2024, Columbia's strength coaches noticed that Broom's workload was already very high in warmups, based on the trackers they use to monitor players' health. "You need to chill," they told her.
About six weeks later, Broom was about to make the lone start of her freshman season at Yale. When she entered the locker room partway through warmups, head coach Megan Griffith noticed she'd sweated through her uniform.
"She played the game before the game," Griffith told reporters in March 2026. "… I was like, 'Holy bananas.'"
Fast forward to the end of Broom's sophomore season, though, and that intensity from the moment Columbia entered the gym turned out to be exactly what the Lions needed. With the team down two starters, Broom stepped up in the Lions' run to a WBIT title. She averaged 17.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.0 assists in five WBIT games, up from 6.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists all season to that point.
Click here to read the full article at The IX Sports.
Growing up, Mia Broom always heard her dad say, "If you're not sweating in warmups, you're not warming up correctly." Now a sophomore guard at Columbia, Broom still takes that to heart.
Before her first-ever college game at Duke in December 2024, Columbia's strength coaches noticed that Broom's workload was already very high in warmups, based on the trackers they use to monitor players' health. "You need to chill," they told her.
About six weeks later, Broom was about to make the lone start of her freshman season at Yale. When she entered the locker room partway through warmups, head coach Megan Griffith noticed she'd sweated through her uniform.
"She played the game before the game," Griffith told reporters in March 2026. "… I was like, 'Holy bananas.'"
Fast forward to the end of Broom's sophomore season, though, and that intensity from the moment Columbia entered the gym turned out to be exactly what the Lions needed. With the team down two starters, Broom stepped up in the Lions' run to a WBIT title. She averaged 17.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.0 assists in five WBIT games, up from 6.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists all season to that point.
Click here to read the full article at The IX Sports.
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