EL CAMINO COLLEGE PROFESSIONAL
“Being a professional is job everywhere.” “To me, there’s nothing different to playing in the States because just playing basketball on the other side of the planet,” Yang said through a translator. Yang didn’t cower while making the transition to what she called the “top league in the world.” Yang, 28, helped China claim the silver medal at the FIBA Women’s World Cup last year and played two seasons in China with Sparks star Nneka Ogwumike. Cooke, the Sparks’ top draft pick last month, is working at both guard positions. Rookies Zia Cooke and Yang Liwei are also pushing for coveted roster spots. Jasmine Thomas, the floor general of Miller’s teams in Connecticut, is participating in practices after missing last year rehabbing a torn ACL, but didn’t give an exact timetable for her return to competition as the team prepares for its season opener at home on May 19 against the Phoenix Mercury. Canada injects the group with speed and tests her teammates in transition drills. She is competing in what Layshia Clarendon called, “the best point guard camp I’ve been at.”Ĭlarendon, a 32-year-old former college star at California now playing for a sixth WNBA franchise, offers a veteran voice to a backcourt that struggled without All-Star Chelsea Gray.
EL CAMINO COLLEGE PRO
That’s what we lacked last year: accountability.”Ĭanada was so convinced by the vision of Bryant and Miller that the five-year pro opted to return to her hometown team on a nonguaranteed training camp contract one year after signing as a coveted free agent from Seattle. Everyone on this team wants to see everyone be successful and do well, encouraging each other, pushing each other, holding each other accountable. “You can just sense that it’s a different environment, different atmosphere in the locker room. “It’s a complete 180 from last year,” said guard Jordin Canada, who is in her second year with the Sparks. well before the season, helping the team develop chemistry on and off the court. Any problems ranging from housing to medical staff questions, the team helps with immediately, free-agent forward Azurá Stevens said. After cobbling together a practice schedule by hunting open court time in rental gyms, college campuses and the Lakers’ facility, the Sparks will call El Camino College their regular practice home this year.
0 kommentar(er)
