Future Rosters

[sbruce65]

Didn't she play high school ball with Chad Greenway's daughter ?

Yes, and two other sisters have/are as well. The one graduating this year is headed to UM-Duluth to play basketball. Another daughter is a sophomore and very good at basketball.

[bigticket1]

Maria Counts who is leaving Minnesota would be a good practical get for the Jacks. Think her parents are former Jackrabbits or at least one was.

Didn't she play high school ball with Chad Greenway's daughter ?

[sbruce65]

WOW is her dad Chris Counts who started for back to back Regional Final teams in 90-91, and 91-92? never flashy but a great team guy glue guy!! transferred in with 2 years remaining and i believe he started EVERY game for 2 years. Chris Counts and Chris White both came at the same time and both started every game for 2 years. Chris White is in the HOF and Counts is in the all underrated underappreciated HOF!!

Pretty sure that she is.

[LetsGoRabbits]

Maria Counts who is leaving Minnesota would be a good practical get for the Jacks. Think her parents are former Jackrabbits or at least one was.

WOW is her dad Chris Counts who started for back to back Regional Final teams in 90-91, and 91-92? never flashy but a great team guy glue guy!! transferred in with 2 years remaining and i believe he started EVERY game for 2 years. Chris Counts and Chris White both came at the same time and both started every game for 2 years. Chris White is in the HOF and Counts is in the all underrated underappreciated HOF!!

[Borderboy]

Maria Counts who is leaving Minnesota would be a good practical get for the Jacks. Think her parents are former Jackrabbits or at least one was.

[GrandpaLee]

By default, she would immediately be the biggest trash-talker on the team!

Her EGO would not contribute to team-first culture. Speaking down to teammates on the court (seen/heard at the Atlantis tourney) indicates fragile mental health.

Parallel storyline to Kelsey Plum (?):
https://justwomenssports.com/reads/k...nba-happiness/

[bigticket1]

Hailey Van Lith is in the portal. Maybe AJ should have Sydni Schetnan make a phone call!!! LOL!

By default she would immediately be the biggest trash talker on the team !

[98Jackfarmer]

Hailey Van Lith is in the portal. Maybe AJ should have Sydni Schetnan make a phone call!!! LOL!

[SteelSD]

Hopefully we have made a few calls. Hottinger from Lehigh would be a nice addition. Minnesota girl who got to experience playing in Frost this last year.

Article that ties FH to Kallie Thiesen.

Meet the 2019 Star Tribune All-Metro first team (mngirlsbasketballhub.com)

I'm all for making this happen. I'm curious if we ever offered Hottinger in HS.

[OldHare]

Darian White from Montana State has entered the portal. Has one year of eligibility. Would give us a nice 1-2 punch at PG with Paige Meyer. Uber athletic player with nice quickness and handles. Not a great 3 point shooter but can really get downhill.

It would seem likely if someone came in from the portal that a 1 year player is the answer. I will need to look back, but it seems that there is always a freshman that is a contributor.

[SteelSD]

Darian White from Montana State has entered the portal. Has one year of eligibility. Would give us a nice 1-2 punch at PG with Paige Meyer. Uber athletic player with nice quickness and handles. Not a great 3 point shooter but can really get downhill.

[GrandpaLee]

QUOTED from Jackdaniel:
"Lauren Ware is a 3yr eligibility transfer, that messes up our roster for '24 - '25 where we have a full 15 for that season. Unless there's some kind of work-around. Right behind her listed at # 18 is Frannie Hottinger Lehigh, a senior with 1 covid yr of eligibility left, from Minn, a 6'1" F who last season scored 20.4ppg, 9.7 rpg in the Patriot League. "

The transfer portal is filling up with good-to-great-players with "eye candy" credentials. However, if WARE or any other multi-year transfer hits our roster, Pandora's Box opens.

Would the five SD Attack teammates all sign their SDSU NLI this November ? Poaching is a real possibility.

Would the current roster remain intact?

Still, we need more than 12 players next season, right? AJ is walking a tightrope.

[OldHare]

Lexi Donarski from the Iowa State WBB is in the portal. She is 6' guard/wing. She played 35+ minutes/game with about 32% 3pt average.

[jackdaniel]

Saw that ESPN ranks her as the 17th best player in the portal. She will likely draw bigger offers than the Summit schools that have been mentioned. Sounds like she missed all of this season with a knee injury.

Lauren Ware is a 3yr eligibility transfer, that messes up our roster for '24 - '25 where we have a full 15 for that season. Unless there's some kind of work-around. Right behind her listed at # 18 is Frannie Hottinger Lehigh, a senior with 1 covid yr of eligibility left, from Minn, a 6'1" F who last season scored 20.4ppg, 9.7 rpg in the Patriot League. You might recall, we played against her and Lehigh early in our season which we won 91- 73. She was Lehigh's top scorer in that game with 25 pts. To me she would fit much better and would make more sense for next season and then our roster would return to normal afterward.

I don't know if AJ would feel the same way or not, and, I don't know if offered she would accept. Who wouldn't take Lauren Ware for 3 yrs, but I don't know how we could unless, as I've mentioned , there's some kind of work around to not mess up our roster for '24- '25 . I now see I'm a little late with this post, just noticed SteelSD already posted about her, my bad.

[bigticket1]

Hopefully we have made a few calls. Hottinger from Lehigh would be a nice addition. Minnesota girl who got to experience playing in Frost this last year.

ESPN has her ranked in the top five portal players. You have to think that Dawn is going hard after her being a Minnesota native.