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Message: [QUOTE="#12in21, post: 4281572, member: 10763"] I wish Evina the very best as she moves on from her time at UCONN. It's somewhat ironic that she has been at Storrs three years and only played two but was unquestionably a Husky through and through! She had a role on this team that I don't recall any other former player paralleled. From the moment our present Sophomore class stepped onto campus she truly, not only figuratively, was the team mom. She embraced and lived into that role gracefully, selflessly and emotionally. I honestly don't know how you transition, as a person, from being everything she was for this team to being a younger member of a WNBA squad. Evina's very identity has changed over these past couple of years from being a gifted basketball player with unknown potential limits to being an 'old soul' whose identity goes way beyond her basketball skills to being a compassionate complete human being. She left everything she had, physically and emotionally, on the court for this team (the championship game was a perfect microcosm of that). Her departure, I can only imagine, will be a hard transition for the entire team, especially 'her kids' (Paige, Nika and Aaliyah), but the hardest probably for Evina herself. The love these young woman share is none other than that of family and the heartbreak of this transition, I have no doubt, is deeply felt by all. [/QUOTE]