Hanna Cavinder

Hanna Cavinder (born January 13, 2001) is an American social media personality and former college basketball player who last played for the Miami Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

She began her college career at Fresno State, where she was a two-time All-Mountain West Conference (MWC) selection and a MWC All-Freshman Team selection.

Prior to collegiate basketball she was the Arizona 5A Offensive Player of the Year as a senior for Gilbert High School where she played with her fraternal twin, Haley, and elder sister Brandi.

Cavinder and her fraternal twin and teammate, Haley, have a large social media following and share social media accounts on platforms such as TikTok where they have millions of followers.

They are leading figures in college sports endorsements, signing name, image and likeness (NIL) deals with several companies, including Boost Mobile and WWE, and co-founding the clothing company Baseline Team.

Cavinder was born in South Bend, Indiana, on January 13, 2001, one minute after and one pound (454 g) lighter than her twin sister, Haley.

The family moved to the Phoenix area by the twins' age 3.

The twins often opted for basketball time in the driveway instead of Sesame Street time before going to preschool, even though they had no hoop assembly and just did YouTube drills.

They tried many sports in their early years before focusing on basketball and emulating Skylar Diggins-Smith in junior high.

The twins were adventurous athletes from a young age and competed against boys in basketball until sixth grade.

When they joined a girls' team in middle school, they competed with and against girls a few years older.

In club basketball, they participated in 15–17 age competition as sixth graders.

They got their first scholarship offers before their freshman season from San Diego.

Gilbert High School had not had much recent success.

From 2010–11 to 2013–14, Gilbert won single digit games.

The 2014–15 team went 13–15 and won its first round playoff game (as a 21 seed).

With the twins as the leading scorers each season, Gilbert had winning records and reached at least the state quarterfinals each of the first three seasons.

When the twins entered Gilbert as freshmen in 2015, elder sister Brandi transferred to join them as a junior after previously being basketball teammates with eldest sister Brooke at Campo Verde.

While Hanna (14.5 ppg) and Haley (13 ppg) were the mid-season scoring leaders on the team, Brandi was a role player who played every game, but only averaged 1.7 ppg.

The pregame Gilbert starting lineup announcement was presented in numerical order as follows: "At guard, No. 0, a 5-6 freshman, Hanna Cavinder...At guard, No. 1, a 5-6 freshman, Haley Cavinder...At forward, No. 2, a 5-5 junior, Brandi Cavinder..."

A December 8, 2015, 56–53 loss to Millennium High School dropped Gilbert to a 4–5 record.

Then, a players-only 2-hour meeting sparked a 12–5 stretch and a 16–10 record by mid February.

Hamilton High School eliminated Gilbert in the 2016 Division I quarterfinals.

Gilbert was eliminated by Millennium in the 2017 state semifinals.

Gilbert lost the 2018 class 6A state semifinal to Valley Vista High School.

They finished with a 26–4 record.

As a junior, she received an honorable mention when the 2018 American Family Insurance All-USA Arizona High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year finalists (including her sister) were named.

Hanna was considering attending Boston University, San Diego, Loyola Marymount, and Santa Clara before signing with Fresno State.

The twins sacrificed their junior and senior proms for club basketball activities.

Although she entered her 2018–19 senior season as an American Family Insurance All-USA Arizona preseason girls basketball team selection along with her sister, Haley, her role was to drive and score so as to keep teams from double teaming her sister.

Hanna played point guard and shooting guard interchangeably with twin Haley.

As a senior, Cavinder contributed to an explosive Gilbert offense and defense that had a half dozen 50+-point margins of victory before mid-January, including a 96–2 victory over Betty H. Fairfax High School.

In a December 14, 2018, 50–44 loss to number-one-ranked (among Class 5A in AZ) Millennium High School, Hanna was held to a season-low 4 points.

In the February 18, 2019, class 5A girls 68–52 semifinal victory against Horizon High School, Hanna contributed 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.

In the 2019 class 5A girls state-championship game rematch loss to Millennium, Hanna led Gilbert in 13 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.

According to the East Valley Tribune, following the game, Cavinder's career point total of 2,179 was within 100 of her sister's. Gilbert finished the season 25–6.

Cavinder's 23-point, 5-assist, 5-steal, 4-rebound debut performance against set a Fresno State record for most points in a freshman debut.

As a freshman for Fresno State, she twice earned Mountain West Conference Player of the Week (December 16, 2019, and February 17, 2020).

She started her college career with a 12-game double-digit scoring streak, but the streak came to an end when she posted 9 points, 9 assists, 6 steals, and 4 rebounds on December 28, 2019, against.

On February 12, 2020, against, Cavinder contributed 20 points and 5 assists to help Fresno State (21-4, 14-0) clinch a share of the 2019–20 Mountain West Conference regular season championship.