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“There isn’t one thing that’s the same,” coach Geno Auriemma said of Walker. “Nothing. Everything’s different. How she looks, how she plays, how she shoots it. Everything. How aggressive she is. Everything’s different. There are some things, obviously, that she’s going to keep getting better at, but if you want to compare it to last year nothing’s the same. Nothing’s the same.”
"Practices were hard, there was a lot to learn, and Walker soon realized transitioning wouldn’t be as seamless as she had imagined. In Walker’s phone calls with Star Wills, who coached and trained her from a young age at Cap City Ballerz, she opened up about the challenges she was facing.
“For her, she was honest with herself and with me,” [Coach]Wills said. “She said it wasn’t easy, and that practices were harder than she thought they would be. And she would tell me that she’s going to be OK. She would say, ‘I’m going to be OK, I just have to have better practices.’ So when I would ask her why she wasn’t playing she would say ‘There’s a lot that I don’t know.’”
"It doesn’t matter who you ask — Auriemma, teammates, past coaches — everyone expects Walker to have a breakout season this year. And she knows it. She sees the expectations, feels the pressure mounting, and intends to deliver big.
“When you’re challenged you have to respond,” Walker said, “so I feel like this year will be full of responses.”
Geno Auriemma says 'everything's different' about UConn's Megan Walker heading into her sophomore season
"Practices were hard, there was a lot to learn, and Walker soon realized transitioning wouldn’t be as seamless as she had imagined. In Walker’s phone calls with Star Wills, who coached and trained her from a young age at Cap City Ballerz, she opened up about the challenges she was facing.
“For her, she was honest with herself and with me,” [Coach]Wills said. “She said it wasn’t easy, and that practices were harder than she thought they would be. And she would tell me that she’s going to be OK. She would say, ‘I’m going to be OK, I just have to have better practices.’ So when I would ask her why she wasn’t playing she would say ‘There’s a lot that I don’t know.’”
"It doesn’t matter who you ask — Auriemma, teammates, past coaches — everyone expects Walker to have a breakout season this year. And she knows it. She sees the expectations, feels the pressure mounting, and intends to deliver big.
“When you’re challenged you have to respond,” Walker said, “so I feel like this year will be full of responses.”
Geno Auriemma says 'everything's different' about UConn's Megan Walker heading into her sophomore season
.......the transformation has begun.......
