Penn Manor senior sharpshooter will play hoops for D3 program in New York

JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com

One of the top snipers in the Lancaster-Lebanon League has made her college choice.

Penn Manor senior sharpshooter Dani Busansky, who has drilled 29 3-pointers so far this season – second-most in the league – will play for Utica College in New York.

Utica is a Division 3 program and competes in the Empire 8 Conference, along with Alfred, Elmira, Hartwick, Ithaca, Nazareth, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. John Fisher and Stevens.

Since joining the lineup as a sophomore, Busansky has been one of the top shooters in the L-L League.

As a soph she scored 209 points and drilled 45 3-pointers.

In her junior season she scored 168 points and canned 36 3-pointers and helped the Comets reach the District 3 Quad-A playoffs.

And so far this season, Busansky has scored 114 points and hit 29 3-pointers for Penn Manor, which is 5-4 in league games and 8-7 overall. She scored 17 points and drilled five 3-pointers in a win over Elizabethtown earlier this season, and she’s hit three or more 3-pointers in a game seven times already this season.

Busansky’s single-game record is six 3-pointers, which she accomplished last season in a non-league game against Lancaster Catholic.

She has 491 points and 110 3-pointers in her career, heading into Friday’s games.

Division 3 programs do not offer athletic scholarships, but Busansky has earned academic scholarship funds from Utica, where she will join a familiar face in Lancaster County girls’ basketball circles.

Former McCaskey standout Teasia Myers is a freshman for Utica, although she has missed all of this season with a knee injury.

Myers and Busansky, who battled it out in Section 1 for a couple of years, will be reunited next year in a Pioneers’ uniform.