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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2797262, member: 5798"] To bring anyone up to date who may not know/remember EDD's brief history at UConn: Following an outstanding prep career during which she became the most highly touted women's basketball recruit since [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Parker']Candace Parker[/URL], Delle Donne received a basketball scholarship from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Huskies_women%27s_basketball']University of Connecticut[/URL]. However, in early June 2008, Delle Donne abruptly dropped out of Connecticut's summer school program [B]after just two days in [/B][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storrs,_Connecticut'][B]Storrs[/B][/URL][B].[/B] Delle Donne was very close to her family, especially her older sister, Lizzie, who has [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy']cerebral palsy[/URL] and is [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness']blind[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf']deaf[/URL]. She was not ready to be separated from her family.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne#cite_note-Farnum-8'][8][/URL] Gene, Elena's brother and the middle child of the Delle Donne family, would say in a 2012 ESPN story on his younger sister: Her relationship with Lizzie is huge. It's so close. It's a big reason why she is such a homebody who came home from UConn, because she craves to be around Lizzie and to experience Lizzie grabbing her and sniffing her and just spend quality time with her. A week after leaving Connecticut, Delle Donne said by telephone from her home in Wilmington that she has "a lot of personal issues to fix. Only my family understands what's going on. Right now I am going to take a long personal break. She took a similar break prior to the 2007–08 season in high school. On August 16, 2008, Delle Donne announced she would not accept the scholarship due to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)']burnout[/URL] (later she admitted it was not burnout but home sickness), and instead decided to enroll at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Delaware']University of Delaware[/URL] and join their volleyball team as a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk-on_(sports)']walk-on[/URL]. Delle Donne did not continue on the volleyball team in 2009, but joined the basketball team. On June 2, 2009, Delle Donne announced that she would play basketball for the Blue Hens in the 2009/2010 season as a redshirt freshman. [/QUOTE]

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