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“He’s really genuine and honest. He says it how it is,” she said. “He doesn’t want any 15- or 16-year-old friends. He just wants girls who want to come play for him. … A lot of coaches have adapted to our generation where it’s very relationship (-driven), you have to call them all the time and be very involved. I just like how he’s kept it very old-fashioned. He’s your coach, there’s nothing else to it.”
“She just wants to play for that coaching staff,” Amy added. “She just really has always wanted to be put up against the best.”
Poffenbarger always knew she wanted to play for UConn
“She can play all five positions,” Amy said. “The one thing she has — it’s so hard to teach — is just IQ and vision. She has a high IQ for the game. She’s that kid that during the game, she’s breaking it down. She’s like, ‘Mom, we need to get out of this press,’ or, ‘Mom, we need to go man-to-man. We need to force so and so to her left.’ She kind of reads the game as it’s going along, as it’s progressing.”
That’s exemplified by how Poffenbarger watches film almost religiously. She picked up the habit from her mother and has used it to advance her own game.
“It’s been (a habit) since I started high school, maybe even before that,” Saylor said. “I think I learn well watching myself do something, and then learning from that mistake.”
“She just wants to play for that coaching staff,” Amy added. “She just really has always wanted to be put up against the best.”
Poffenbarger always knew she wanted to play for UConn
“She can play all five positions,” Amy said. “The one thing she has — it’s so hard to teach — is just IQ and vision. She has a high IQ for the game. She’s that kid that during the game, she’s breaking it down. She’s like, ‘Mom, we need to get out of this press,’ or, ‘Mom, we need to go man-to-man. We need to force so and so to her left.’ She kind of reads the game as it’s going along, as it’s progressing.”
That’s exemplified by how Poffenbarger watches film almost religiously. She picked up the habit from her mother and has used it to advance her own game.
“It’s been (a habit) since I started high school, maybe even before that,” Saylor said. “I think I learn well watching myself do something, and then learning from that mistake.”
