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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2490278, member: 6927"] This article was in Nan's "UConn in the News" roundup, but I thought it deserved its own thread. (I didn't see it posted in any other thread, but my apologies if I missed it.) [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/kia-nurse-uconn-duquesne-recap-1.4463590"]Kia Nurse's 'homecoming' game in Toronto a celebration of stellar collegiate career | CBC Sports[/URL] I really enjoyed the account of how Kia became a starter early in her freshman year: [INDENT]Nurse's start as a Huskie was far from a fairy tale. Just two games into her freshman year, Nurse fouled out in just 20 minutes played as UConn's 47-game win streak was snapped in an overtime loss against the Stanford Cardinals. It was an early season wake-up call and Auriemma knew at that moment that he had to do something, so he inserted Nurse into the starting lineup for the next game. "You could see right then and there, that was the change we were going to make. She was the spark that we were missing," Auriemma says. Nurse knows it wasn't one of her finer moments, but it laid the foundation for her collegiate and international career. "It was heartbreaking for me because I felt like I didn't do anything to help contribute to that game in the ways that I probably could. After that, coach called me into his office and was like, 'I'm going to start you to play defence.' It was an eye-opener of what are you really good at and [a lesson to] do that every single day," Nurse says.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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