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“I’ll use it as an opportunity to
measure myself,” said Williams,
who became the Pacific-10 Con
ference’s youngest-ever Player of
the Year last season. Shaq said she
wants “to see where the other sup
posedly best players are—the oth
er top collegians — and to gain
some experience by being around
really good coaches. ”
Virginia Tech head coach Bon
nie Henrickson takes the helm of
this year’s team.
Five of Williams and Mowe’s
Pac-10 counterparts also received
invites: Oregon State’s Felicia
Ragland, Washington’s Loree
Payne, Stanford’s Carolyn Moos
and UCLA’s Michelle Greco and
Nicole Kaczmarski.
Three members of the national
champion Connecticut women’s
basketball team will also partake
in the tryouts: Kelly Schumcher,
Shea Ralph and Sue Bird.
But Williams is hardly daunted.
“You hear about them all year,”
she said. “But I can’t really say
they’re better than I am or I’m bet
ter than they are until I’ve gone
head-to-head with them.
“Last year I really wanted to
make the team, but it wouldn’t
bother me if I didn’t. This year it’s
something I’m really shooting for;
it’s a goal. And whenever I set
something as a goal, it becomes a
priority.”
Besides, Williams explained,
players do make friends during
this annual best-of-the-best camps.
“This is my chance to see some
of my friends who go to other
schools,” the junior-to-be said.
“We’ll get the opportunity to play
together and do a little bit of that
gossip that girls do. ”
Not that they won’t be balling
much of the time. Williams said
that in the past, the morning ses
sions were filled with positional
drills. Then participants play
games in the afternoons and
evenings.
“They wear you out there,”
Mowe said.
Players are allotted a day or two
to acclimate themselves to a new
setting before the selection com
mittee arrives to observe them on
the third day.
Williams averaged 17.7 points
and 4.3 assists per game last sea
son. Mowe, a senior next season,
came up with more than two
blocks per game and 5.7 rebounds.
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