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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 4644829, member: 6620"] I'm with you, [USER=378]@triaddukefan[/USER]: I thought first-year coach Megan Gabbia had done a wizardly job with what she had (remember, she was brought on board late in the offseason) to coax a 17-17 season out of the Demon Deacs. During the team's mini-run in the ACC playoffs, Jewell Spear looked excited in post-game interviews and the team looked and acted pysched on-court and off. Olivia Summel left first (to Va. Tech, of all places...ouch! -- I'm the father of a Demon Deac alum so I know how that plays.) Maybe Spear wondered if it was going to be hard to even improve on a .500 record while prepping for the WNBA? In any case, she's a junior...maybe she got her degree from WF, which is a fine school. That's the bad news. OK news is that Kaia Harrison and Alexandra Scruggs, who both averaged around 6 ppg, will come back for grad years, so there's experience there. The good news is that Gabbia posted a Top-25 Hoopgurlz recruiting class, with 6'1" wing Madisyn Jordan from Morrisville, NC; Makaela Quimby, a 5'9" guard from a very good McDonough School team in Maryland; and Kylie Theirkauf, a 5'9"shooting guard from Tenafly, NJ. This kid can -- and will -- shoot it, from all places in the court. So, while I wish Spear and Quimby would've stuck around, that seems to be the new reality of WCBB. However, Gabbia built a really solid program at American and she knows how to find players. Let's hope these do well and you can still bring your girlfriend to meet maybe 200 DD faithful and hit some of the better eateries in Winston-Salem. Keep the Deac faith. [/QUOTE]

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