WBB Recruiting
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Recent Ames Trib article on Caitlin Clark
https://www.amestrib.com/sports/201...rk-considering-national-powers-local-colleges
I have zero inside info, but these quotes have me thinking Notre Dame is in the lead:
“I am seriously considering them and I think it aligns with my faith well,” Clark said about Notre Dame, a Catholic school in Indiana. “The school part of it is a big deal. You’re getting a great education, which is more important than basketball.”
“Being on the national scale,” she said of what she’s most anticipating in college. “TV games and things like that. Big crowds. That’s the stuff you grow up watching, so that’s what you dream of.”
https://www.amestrib.com/sports/201...rk-considering-national-powers-local-colleges
I have zero inside info, but these quotes have me thinking Notre Dame is in the lead:
“I am seriously considering them and I think it aligns with my faith well,” Clark said about Notre Dame, a Catholic school in Indiana. “The school part of it is a big deal. You’re getting a great education, which is more important than basketball.”
“Being on the national scale,” she said of what she’s most anticipating in college. “TV games and things like that. Big crowds. That’s the stuff you grow up watching, so that’s what you dream of.”
Got me wondering how many five stars select non-top tier teams. Per @Geewagos favorite Prospects Nation:
Where Five-Stars went in 2018
Baylor (3)
Texas (2)
UConn (2)
Tennessee (2)
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Maryland
Stanford
Where Five-Stars have committed for 2019
South Carolina (3)
Stanford (2)
Notre Dame (2)
Maryland (2)
Tennessee
Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Louisville
UCLA
Mostly Top 10 type teams with the exception of the Sooners and UCLA and UCLA’s was an LA gal.
I'd put TCU in the near zero probability of landing a Top 10 5-star from outside of Texas.
ISU Recruit Lex Donarski held her own matched up against Hopkins the #1 big school team in Minn who feature a bunch of D1 players including Paige Bueckers who some consider the #1 recruit in 2020. Danarski outscored Bueckers 33 / 10,
Hopkins (Minn.) 82, Aquinas 61
HOPKINS, Minn. — The Blugolds (19-1) had a 47-game winning streak snapped by the top-ranked team in Minnesota’s largest class.
Junior Lexi Donarski made two 3-pointers and scored 33 points for Aquinas, which last lost a regular-season game against Wisconsin Rapids Assumption on Feb. 18, 2016, and won 63 in a row since. Courtney Becker added eight points and Jacy Weisbrod seven for the top-ranked Blugolds.
Hopkins (Minn.) 82, Aquinas 61
HOPKINS, Minn. — The Blugolds (19-1) had a 47-game winning streak snapped by the top-ranked team in Minnesota’s largest class.
Junior Lexi Donarski made two 3-pointers and scored 33 points for Aquinas, which last lost a regular-season game against Wisconsin Rapids Assumption on Feb. 18, 2016, and won 63 in a row since. Courtney Becker added eight points and Jacy Weisbrod seven for the top-ranked Blugolds.
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Short video from game.
http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/lexi-donarski/YYBkrmTiEea-8KA2nzwbTA/default.htm
Good article on Caitlin Clark's recruitment, including some nice words about ISU (as well as Drake and Iowa): https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...ate-drake-texas-notre-dame-oregon/2909724002/
One of the big pluses for ISU is that her brother is a walkon on the football team!
My niece goes to the games and says she has seen three different Iowa State Coaches.
It's hard to believe it won't be until 2020 to see Lexi in Ames. She seems ready for Div. 1.
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Or Stanford #Greenfield, although she wasn't a "star" in college she did get to play in two Final Fours. Hard to pass up legit shots at a Final Four sometime in a four year college career.
Here's a partial list of players we seem to be interested in (including StClone's list above). We have three 2020 verbals already (Donarski, Feuerbach, Joens), but we could conceivably pick up one or two more in that class.
2020:
Caitlin Clark
Leilani Kapinus
Taylor Lauterbach
Lauren Ware
Emilie Lafond
Emily Ryan
Yvonne Ejim
2021:
Avery Van Sickle
Ally VanTimmeren
Payton Verhulst
Greta Kampschroeder
Zakia Rasheed
Katie Dinnebier
2022:
Mallory Heyer
Hannah Stuelke
Ava Hawthorne
Lauren Betts
Callin Hake
Players like Lallani Kapinus, Zachia Rasheed, & Taylor Lauterbach are the type of players Bill needs to focus on. Bring in 2 or 3 like that every year and things will really get exciting. Of course Caitlin Clark would be a big door prize. Seems to me too many big boys are already camping on her doorstep.
