Dawn Staley and our assistants do a great job of maximizing our players' talent.
Here are our current players and their Hoopgurlz rankings coming out of high school:
2011
Aleighsa Welch, 4 stars, number 88 in the country. She is now an HM All-American and the heart and soul of our team. Tina Roy, Elem Ibiam and Olivia Gaines were not top 100 players that year. El and Tina were 3 star recruits. I can't find Olivia. BTW, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis was the number 1 recruit that year.
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2011
2012
Khadijah Sessions was a 4 star recruit and number 40 in the country. Now a starting Final Four Point Guard.
Tiffany Mitchell was a 4 star recruit and only rated number 46 in the country and now she's a firs team All-American and two time SEC POTY. I'd say that was a strong upside.
Asia Dozier was a 4 star recruit and number 88 in the country. She starts for a Final Four team.
Tiffany Davis was a 3 star recruit not in the top 100.
UCONN signed numbers 1, 2 and 6 that year.
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2012
2013
Alaina Coates was a 4 star recruit rated number 28 in the country. She was SEC FOTY and 6th MOTY last year. SECT MVP and Greensboro Regional MVP this year plus 2nd team All-SEC; right?
BTW, UNC signed numbers 3, 7, 14 and 23 last year. Number 3 was Diamond DeShields who transferred. Guess who we just beat?
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2013
2014
We finally had a highly ranked class.
A'ja Wilson number 1 SEC FOTY
Jatarie White number 7 (hurt much of the year)
Kaydra Duckett number 32
Bianca Cuevas number 35
Doniyah Cliney outside the top 100, redshirted
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2014
If you look at our recruiting rankings for our upper classmen, we have no business being 34-2, SEC regular season and tournament champs and in the Final Four. This is a credit to our coaches and player development. My cap is off to them.
This post was edited on 3/31 11:33 PM by cockhornleghorn
Here are our current players and their Hoopgurlz rankings coming out of high school:
2011
Aleighsa Welch, 4 stars, number 88 in the country. She is now an HM All-American and the heart and soul of our team. Tina Roy, Elem Ibiam and Olivia Gaines were not top 100 players that year. El and Tina were 3 star recruits. I can't find Olivia. BTW, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis was the number 1 recruit that year.
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2011
2012
Khadijah Sessions was a 4 star recruit and number 40 in the country. Now a starting Final Four Point Guard.
Tiffany Mitchell was a 4 star recruit and only rated number 46 in the country and now she's a firs team All-American and two time SEC POTY. I'd say that was a strong upside.
Asia Dozier was a 4 star recruit and number 88 in the country. She starts for a Final Four team.
Tiffany Davis was a 3 star recruit not in the top 100.
UCONN signed numbers 1, 2 and 6 that year.
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2012
2013
Alaina Coates was a 4 star recruit rated number 28 in the country. She was SEC FOTY and 6th MOTY last year. SECT MVP and Greensboro Regional MVP this year plus 2nd team All-SEC; right?
BTW, UNC signed numbers 3, 7, 14 and 23 last year. Number 3 was Diamond DeShields who transferred. Guess who we just beat?
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2013
2014
We finally had a highly ranked class.
A'ja Wilson number 1 SEC FOTY
Jatarie White number 7 (hurt much of the year)
Kaydra Duckett number 32
Bianca Cuevas number 35
Doniyah Cliney outside the top 100, redshirted
http://espn.go.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2014
If you look at our recruiting rankings for our upper classmen, we have no business being 34-2, SEC regular season and tournament champs and in the Final Four. This is a credit to our coaches and player development. My cap is off to them.
This post was edited on 3/31 11:33 PM by cockhornleghorn
