UConn recruiting targets Courtney Ekmark (No. 34) and Erica McCall (No. 41)  apply
defensive pressure during the U.S. -17 national team trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.

I know that there are fans out there getting a tad bit antsy because three Class of 2013 players who were heavily recruited by UConn have committed elsewhere in the last couple of weeks.

However, Linnae Harper, Erica McCall and Jannah Tucker are still relatively early in the recruiting process so don't expect them to be committing any time in the immediate future.

McCall, a 6-foot-3 forward/center from Bakersfield, Calif., is probably the furthest along of the three since she made a visit to the UConn campus. It doesn't hurt that her father is the head women's basketball coach at CSU Bakersfield and her sister is Phoenix Mercury forward DeWanna Bonner.

Bonner made her sister's day by giving her the phone number of former UConn great Diana Taurasi (who is Bonner's teammate with the Mercury) with instructions to call her if she has any questions concerning what UConn is all about.

"I have her number in my phone and I am excited about that just to have her name on my phone," McCall said on Friday after finishing up the second session at the U.S. U-17 training camp. "I hope I get to talk
to her and get a feel for UConn."

McCall said "right now I am open."

Harper and Tucker said pretty much the same thing. Tucker said she'd like to take some unofficial visits in June and could start narrowing her list of schools beginning in July.

Another Class of 2013 UConn recruiting target is also out in the Colorado Springs but Saniya Chong is attempting to make the U-18 team and those tryouts don't begin until tomorrow.

Right now those are the four prospects I know UConn is still involved with. The list of prospective recruits has been narrowed with the decisions of Diamond DeShields (North Carolina), Taya Reimer (Notre Dame) and Karlie Samuelson (Stanford) to commit elsewhere.

I would think UConn would be happy to get a combination of any of the two players mentioned above and will focus on landing a larger class the following year. The Huskies are involved in the recruitment of top Class of 2014 players Courtney Ekmark and Brianna Turner. Sierra Calhoun is another talented member of that class and her father has said he'd like her to go to the same school as his son Omar Calhoun who will be a freshman on the UConn men's team. Another possible name to look at it LaJahna Drummer who listed UConn among her top schools in her USA Basketball bio.