2008-09 - Redshirt Junior
Boyd sat out the 2008-09 season in accordance with NCAA transfer regulations. She has one year of eligibility remaining for the 2009-10 season.
2007-08 – Redshirt Sophomore - Texas
Boyd missed the first six games of the season, but returned and played in 25 games in all helping Texas to a 22-13 overall record, the Big 12 Tournament Championship game and a second round appearance in the NCAA Tournament. She averaged 2.8 points, 1.4 rebounds, had 14 assists and 11 steals on the year in 8.7 minutes of playing time per game. Boyd scored a career-high 16 points against Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Dec. 8, thanks to 6-of-10 shooting from the field and her four 3-pointers. That was the first time in her career in which she led her team in scoring. In the following game against Louisiana-Lafayette, Boyd sank three trey’s in a 76-43 victory. Her second career double-digit scoring game came against Texas A&M, Feb. 24, when she scored 12 points on 3-of-4 shooting from the floor and made 5-of-6 free throw attempts.
2006-07 – Sophomore - Texas
Boyd missed the first part of the season due to a broken left foot that was sustained in an on-campus bicycle collision in September and then was granted a NCAA medical redshirt waiver after suffering a fractured right foot in her fifth game of the season. In her season debut against Southern, Boyd scored seven points and tied her career high with four assists. Then in her last game of the season against San Diego she had a season-high four rebounds prior to being injured when landing awkwardly on her right foot that caused the fracture. Boyd received the 2006-07 UT Women’s Athletics Anne and Oscar Mauzy Endowed Presidential Scholarship Award.
2005-06 – Freshman - Texas
Boyd came off the bench in 26 games and averaged 2.6 points and 8.5 minutes per game. She shot 44.0 percent from the field in Big 12 action. She had big games against Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Colorado and Connecticut, where she played a total of 48 minutes and scored 21 points to go along with 12 rebounds and five steals. She was 6-for-10 from the free-throw line in those four contests. Boyd’s best game came against Sam Houston State, Nov 21, as she scored nine points, grabbed four rebounds, had four assists and four steals – all were season highs. She notched six points and a career-best five rebounds with two steals in 16 minutes against No. 4 UConn, Feb. 12.
USA Basketball
Competed with the 2004 Youth Development Festival, playing on the bronze-medalist South Team where she averaged 10 points in 20 minutes per game.
High School
Boyd was named an all-American in her senior year in 2005. She was the 2005 Gatorade Arkansas Player of the Year while being ranked as the No. 16 recruit nationally by the All-Star Girls Report coming out of Parkview High School. She played in the 2005 McDonald’s All-America Game and was a McDonald’s All-American. She earned WBCA High School All-America Honorable Mention honors and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette named her the Arkansas “Miss Basketball.” She averaged 19.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game as a senior. Boyd won three Class 5A state championships (2002, 2004 and 2005) with powerhouse Parkview Arts and Sciences Magnet High School and coach LaHoma Howard. She was named the state tournament Most Valuable Player as a freshman, junior and senior. Boyd was a three-year all-state player, gaining first team all-state honors as a junior and a senior and second team honors as a sophomore along with being named the team MVP three times. Boyd played on the Orlando Sentinel All-South Team in 2004 and 2005 and was a AAU Basketball U-17 All-American with the Lady Cats. Her 2004 Arkansas Kamikaze squad had a second-place finish at the national tourney in BCI play. She was an Adidas Top Ten Camp Upperclass All-American in 2004 and a Underclass All-Star in 2003. Boyd averaged 21 points, 11 rebounds per game as a junior, 15.3 points and seven rebounds per game as a sophomore and 21 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.4 steals per game as a freshman. She was an high school honor roll student and received the Wesley College Book Award (academic excellence) as a senior.
Personal
Crystal Boyd was born March 12, 1987 and is the daughter of Norvell and Carla Backus. She has four siblings: two brothers - Learrie White II (30) and Edmond Crutcher (14), and two sisters – Corye Dickerson (35) and Carla Johnson (19). She is majoring in individualized studies at New Mexico State.
