Kiwi prodigy Charlisse Leger-Walker making shots and turning heads in college hoops
Charlisse Leger-Walker has had an outstanding first season of college basketball in the United States. Washington State Cougars women’s basketball coach Kamie Ethridge had a fair idea Kiwi hoops phenom Charlisse Leger-Walker was something special from the day she started scouting her. You don’t, after all, make a trip to Mongolia to watch any old run-of-the-mill scrub. But even Ethridge, a collegiate all-American at Texas, 1988 Olympic gold medallist and now highly respected coach, has been astounded by the ease and dominance with which the 19-year-old from Hamilton has negotiated her fr...