Background
She grew up in Carol Stream, Illinois and went to high school in Florida. Her father Edward was also a collegiate athlete, who wrestled for Indiana.
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Brett Benzio
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Benzio is from Palm City, Florida, located on the Treasure Coast, just north of West Palm Beach, and averaged 12 points per game and almost two blocks per contest in her first 90 games of high school. She helped Jensen Beach win the 4A State championship in 2007 as she was named Second Team All-State by the Florida Sports Writers Association. As a junior, she was a First Team All-Conference selection.
Other accolades included All-Area honors as both a junior and sophomore, and was All-Area Honorable Mention as a freshman.
As a senior, she averaged 15 points and 12 rebounds per game. Recorded 94 blocked shots (35 per game), 65 steals (24) and 56 assists (21).
In high school, she was a two-sport athlete.
She also was First Team All-State in volleyball (in which she also won a state championship), and a multiple time all-area selection. Office the court, she was an Associated Press Scholar Award winner and was named her high school team"s scholar athlete of the Year in both 2005 and 2006.
Career
High school Tulane Green Wave On November 14, 2007, Benzio, a 6-3 forward from Jensen Beach High School in Florida signed a National Letter of Intent to play with the Green Wave. Benzio averaged 9.3 rebounds per game in her freshman year. Among all freshmen in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, her average was tied for second with Ashley Palmer of Long Island, only 0.2 rebounds back of University of Nevada, Las Vegas"s Jamie Smith.
The 296 rebounds she gained during the season were the fourth most in a single-season in Tulane history, and the most ever among freshmen.
She averaged 8.9 points per game, and was the only freshman in the nation averaging a double-double before a mid-January bout with mono limited her productivity. In addition, she ranked seventh in C-United States of America with 1.47 blocks per game.
She turned in nine double-doubles with 13 double-digit scoring games and 15 double-figure rebounding games. On January 9, Brett Benzio had seven blocked seven shots against Houston.
