Native year in womens basketball?

[jackdaniel]

I run accross this by accident,but Shoni Schimmel ,the number 8 ranked recruit in the land, also a PG, like Christian Janis,is a Native American too!
She's slightly taller at 5'9'' or 5'10'' depending on who's measurements you run accross.So, being slightly taller, she seems to have the same type game as Christian Janis.She's played club ball, so she's gotten more exposure.She's considering playing for UCLA,Louisville,Oregon ,Rutgers ,Colorado,Washington,and Baylor.Baylors really intresting because they've already sighned the number one PG in Odyssey Sims,so why offer the number 3 PG in Schimmel ?You'de think they'd go after a player at another position with a limited number of scholarships they have to offer each year.Would a number three even want to go to a school with a number one ? Niether of them would be happy sitting on the bench.Another odd similarity is that both Shoni and Christian play on thier teams with thier younger sister.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4021529

[filbert]

Re: Native year in womens basketball?

I do not understand this post on a number of different levels . . .

[jackdaniel]

Re: Native year in womens basketball?

It's just history,maybe intresting reading,nothing more than that.

[SDHoops]

Re: Native year in womens basketball?

I think what jackdaniel is trying to say is that Native American girls basketball players are making a splash and making themselves known. Jenna Plumley won Southland Conference Player of the Year for Lamar: 5'4" and was a two year starter at Oklahoma before she transferred (and yes she played for a small town school on the rez in Oklahoma). Tahnee Robinson also played JUCO ball and was first team all-conference in the WAC, WAC Newcomer of the Year, was runner-up for the national Jimmy V Comeback Award, and led her team to the WNIT. She is 5'9" and came from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Angel Goodrich was also starting point guard for University of Kansas and a top ten national leader in assists before getting an injury.

All of these girls heard the same things, such as: they don't play for a big enough school, they don't play enough summer ball, etc. Their success level speaks for itself for the few who have gone on. Sunni Busch from Mission, S.D. went to Chadron State and finished as a top ten scorer, rebounder, and free throw shooter - in three years. Jenni Lingor, born in S.D., went to Missouri State the year after Jackie Stiles graduated and finished as the school's then second all-time leading scorer. Don't forget that SDSU's first women's basketball "great", Carolyn Fiscus, was from the Winnebago Tribe and highly spoken of by Norma Boetel. So I would say yes, this was a Native year in women's basketball.

[filbert]

Re: Native year in womens basketball?

Ah, OK, I get the point now. I was just having trouble working through exactly what the first post was trying to say.

Carry on . . .