Over the last couple weeks our Nika has blown up from a Husky favorite to just about everybody's. She was trending big time during and after the Iowa game and then again at the draft. I'm not big into social media but I do follow her on IG and the likes on her posts which were in the hundreds or thousands are now in the tens of thousands and many over 100,000. I just noticed that her farewell to Geno has gone way beyond the local area and has already been picked up by espn.com, si.com, usatoday.com and msn.com and a bunch of niche sites.
Can you imagine the possible impact her farewell video could have on recruiting. I mean seriously what parent or player wouldn't want to put their college careers in the hands of Geno after watching that and having recently gotten to know about Nika's full journey to date?
I can't imagine the unbelievable amount of emotion and pressure Nika must be feeling about making the Storm roster. Moving on from college into the world was a big step for all of us but we didn't suddenly have a multitude of eyeballs on us as we did. I agree with Geno, she's got this. She just has to do Nika and attack it like she always has - I just hope all this attention doesn't get to her. One thing is for sure Nika is a truly special player and person and now just about everybody knows it!