Recruiting Overseas

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BUVA
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As far as I know--which only goes back to 2011 or so when I started following Baylor WBB-- the only player recruited directly from outside the US was Kristy Wallace (Australia). Other international players, such as Lety Vasconcelos (Brazil) and Sophia Young ( St. Vincent) attended prep schools in the US, or transfered to BU via the portal from other US schools (Waita Jennings, Yuting Deng, Kiera Pemberton). I'm sure there are others.

Should we be focusing on recruiting overseas? If our NIL continues to be limited, isn't this a valid way to add quality players? So many other schools recruit heavily outside the US; Davidson comes to mind with only 2 Americans on roster. TCU has several. Or is CNC intent on recruiting only with the US?

The WNBA is taking more and more international players in their draft each year. Apparently the age restriction applied to college doesn't apply to internationals; several have been under 20. If they are not allowed NIL $ in colleges,
it is more attractive to them to get W's attention.
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12au
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CNC mentioned that she did some recruiting during our Paris trip. Not sure which player it was
ctxbear
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CNC mentioned something in a press conference earlier this year that I found fascinating and pretty humorous. She said that in the old days, coaches from large, prestigious DI schools would recruit international players heavily, only for those players to choose smaller, mid-major schools in more exciting locations, like Palm Beach or Miami, because they didn't really know the difference between Arkansas and a mid-major, and so they just went with the cooler place. She suggested this is different now, but I wonder how different it acutally is.
Delmar 2.0
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Doing pretty good with international players right now; currently there are 4 on the roster (China, Canada, England, Bulgaria).
Bone Squad
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We also had Brooke McCormack from Australia!
Task Force 2015
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Bone Squad said:

We also had Brooke McCormack from Australia!

I remember her.She was a post who transferred from Grayson juco along with Sheila Lambert.Sonja had an Aussie all conference guard named Lara Webb who transferred
from Lamar.I think she had been told by the Lamar staff that Port Arthur was a beach resort city.
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