Two Players, Two Journeys - Always Friends

[SportsPageMike]

By Terese Karmel
July 4, 2012
They came to elite basketball careers through far different journeys. Sue Bird, a physician’s daughter from the upscale Long Island community of Syosset, and Svetlana Abrosimova, who spent her formative years in her native Leningrad, Russia, growing up in a working class family, where her father was a welder.
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[vtcwbuff]

Thanks SPM. Abrosimova was not only a great player at UConn but she was also one of the most entertaining, probably 2nd only to Tausrasi.

 

[Dairyair]

Nice article, thanks for posting it, SPM