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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyNan, post: 4877515, member: 4"] [I]Recruiters did not leave a worn path to [Kelly’s] door because, as Auriemma sees it, Faris fell victim to common and corrosive stereotyping that tends to define white basketball players as heady and black ones as athletic. “In recruiting, a lot of kids get passed over because they don’t pass the ‘look’ test,” Auriemma said. “If they don’t look a certain way, then they can’t be athletic. And it usually has to do with the racial thing. “It cracks me up when I hear people talk about it. How many people have commented to me, ‘I can’t believe this kid is as good as you think she is.’ But they don’t realize how athletic she is, how well she runs, how she jumps, how she thinks, how she anticipates. She is just a tremendous athlete[/I].” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/sports/ncaabasketball/03huskies.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]