Liberty take UCLA wing with No. 6 pick, shore up defense
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The Liberty continued their off-season makeover Thursday night by taking UCLA wing Michaela Onyenwere with the No. 6 pick in the WNBA. The 6’0” Colorado native was one of four picks the Libs selected.
Rather than go for need, and draft a big, the Liberty went with who they believed was the best player available . and made defense their priority throughout the Draft.
Onyenwere is seen as a plus defender and a hyper athlete. Her father, Peter, competed in the Olympics in track and field for Nigeria and at the University of Missouri, but the star of the evening was Onyenwere’s grandmother who stole the show when ESPN cameras turned to a family gathering that celebrated Onyenwere’s selection.
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Though she appears destined to fulfill a bold prediction from her late father, Charli Collier s path to the top of Thursday s WNBA draft was anything but preordained.
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Core values
The Bowling Green State University’s women’s basketball team and head coach Robyn Fralick have five core values in their program.
“We talk about our core values every single day, and so everything we do circles back to our core values,” Fralick said.
The core values are as follows:
Be a great teammate
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After her final year with Syracuse, fifth year point guard Tiana Mangakahia was named an All-American honorable mention by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association on Monday.
While Mangakahia’s scoring average decreased to 11.4 points per game after a year sidelined with breast cancer, the veteran led the nation for the second season with 7.2 assists per game.
“She’s just a really tough kid, every reason to quit and she didn’t quit, she came back and gave it everything she had,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said of Mangakahia after Syracuse’s second round loss in the NCAA Tournament to UConn. “I told her, 60% of her is better than 100% of the rest of the country.”