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Hillhouse duo drawing interest
I spoke with Hillhouse coach Catrina Hawley-Stewart for another story tentatively scheduled to run this weekend when I asked her about the Academics' junior guard Andreana Thomas and sophomore wing Bria Holmes.
She told me that Boston College is one of the schools which has offered Thomas. Quinnipiac, Northeastern, Boston University, UMass and Providence are among the other schools showing serious interest in the speedy point guard. I have it on good authority that Dayton has expressed some interest in Thomas as well. What's the connection there? Well, Hawley-Stewart's head coach when she was at Providence was Jim Jabir, who just happens to be starting his seventh season as Dayton's head coach.
A recruiting source confirmed that Holmes is on UConn's recruiting radar. So is Rutgers as Hawley-Stewart took Holmes on an unofficial visit to the Rutgers campus recently.
"She loved it there," Hawley-Stewart said. "She wants to be a kid who stays in Connecticut, keeps the pride here in Connecticut. She would love to go to UConn. We are going to be able to go out there now that volleyball season is over and visit more schools."
Hawley-Stewart, who I covered when she was a star at West Haven High School, has an ideal background to advise Thomas and Holmes since she landed a scholarship at Providence and played for the Friars for four years. So what tips she is giving her players?
"Be very humble and do a lot of research, take the visits now while you can, while you are young," Hawley-Stewart said. "It is nice to have the limelight and spotlight on you and know that the big schools are recruiting you but there are other schools out there besides the big schools that are a great opportunity. Weigh your options. Do you want to play right away? Do you want to sit the bench? How many guards do they have? How many forwards do they have? What are they looking for? A lot of schools are going to recruit you, a lot of schools are going to send you letters but where are you on their list? Let's be realistic in these situations where a (recruiting) letter is a letter, where are you on the list. I would say to make sure you are contacting schools that you want to go to if they are not contacting you."
I have to say as advice goes, it's pretty hard to top those words of wisdom.
She told me that Boston College is one of the schools which has offered Thomas. Quinnipiac, Northeastern, Boston University, UMass and Providence are among the other schools showing serious interest in the speedy point guard. I have it on good authority that Dayton has expressed some interest in Thomas as well. What's the connection there? Well, Hawley-Stewart's head coach when she was at Providence was Jim Jabir, who just happens to be starting his seventh season as Dayton's head coach.
A recruiting source confirmed that Holmes is on UConn's recruiting radar. So is Rutgers as Hawley-Stewart took Holmes on an unofficial visit to the Rutgers campus recently.
"She loved it there," Hawley-Stewart said. "She wants to be a kid who stays in Connecticut, keeps the pride here in Connecticut. She would love to go to UConn. We are going to be able to go out there now that volleyball season is over and visit more schools."
Hawley-Stewart, who I covered when she was a star at West Haven High School, has an ideal background to advise Thomas and Holmes since she landed a scholarship at Providence and played for the Friars for four years. So what tips she is giving her players?
"Be very humble and do a lot of research, take the visits now while you can, while you are young," Hawley-Stewart said. "It is nice to have the limelight and spotlight on you and know that the big schools are recruiting you but there are other schools out there besides the big schools that are a great opportunity. Weigh your options. Do you want to play right away? Do you want to sit the bench? How many guards do they have? How many forwards do they have? What are they looking for? A lot of schools are going to recruit you, a lot of schools are going to send you letters but where are you on their list? Let's be realistic in these situations where a (recruiting) letter is a letter, where are you on the list. I would say to make sure you are contacting schools that you want to go to if they are not contacting you."
I have to say as advice goes, it's pretty hard to top those words of wisdom.
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