A couple of WBB odds and ends from tonight's "Meet the Jacks" dinner...
I talked briefly with Mele Finau, Grad transfer from UC-Riverside, who had a hard cast on her broken foot and missed the Ladyjacks opening game vs. OK Panhandle State on Monday. I asked her if she would be out for the season or would be able to come back. She said that she would be back in about two months. We shall see about that. She really wants to play, since she is a grad student and this will her last year to play.
I asked freshman Lydia Cook-Wiggins if she considered withdrawing her commitment to SFA when Coach Kellogg left. She said no, since it was Coach Bishop who had recruited her and she had a good relationship with him. I asked if she would have left if Bishop had not gotten the HC job and she said probably yes. I asked her who the Ladyjacks had scrimmaged against in the preseason and she said Houston Baptist and Jackson State.
I asked freshman Alitalia Ballesteros from Spain if she had met any of the SFA coaches before signing with SFA. She said no and that she had only talked to them on the phone. I asked how SFA discovered her and she said they had watched videos of her playing, liked what they saw, and offered her a scholarship. She speaks very good English. She said she had been studying English in school since the fifth grade.