Loyola Marymount University Athletics

Cherise Beynon enters her first season as a Graduate Assistant for the 2021 season. Prior to coming to LMU, Beynon spent the last three years playing professional basketball overseas. She played in Prague, Czech Republic for BLK Slavia (2019), in Hesperange, Luxembourg for Telstar (2019), and in Saarlouis, Germany for the Royals (2019-2020). She was the point guard for these respective teams. 
 
Beynon spent her collegiate career as the starting point guard at the University of New Mexico (UNM), where she played under Aarika Hughes her junior season. She played and started every game for the Lobos all four years while she was there. Beynon led the team in assists and steals. She led the Mountain West Conference in assists and assists per game her junior and senior season. Beynon ranks top 10 all-time in assists (2nd), rebounds, points, and steals (2nd). She holds the record for assists in a game (15), single season assist record (211) and points in a game (41) at the University of New Mexico. Beynon notched UNM’s first triple-double since 1979 her junior season, where she went on to record four triple doubles in Lobo history.
 
Over the course of her career, she made the All-Mountain West Freshman Team (2014-2015), three straight All-Mountain West First Teams (2015-2018), and two straight Mountain West All-Defensive Teams (2016-2018). Beynon was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team both her junior and senior season, where she then went on to win the National Academic All-American of the Year, the first person to do so in Lobo history. She was also named Academic All-Mountain West (2016-17, 2017-2018) and MW Scholar-Athlete (2016-17, 2017-2018).
 
Cherise graduated from UNM in 2018 with her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She is now pursuing her Master’s in Education.