First an recruiting update: USC has a Commit for 2018 Point Guard Desiree Caldwell, ranked # 13. Caldwell's Sister was a UCLA player who transferred to Texas Tech.
Pac 12 Preview: UTAH
Last Season:
16-15 overall and 5-13 in Pac 12 play finishing in a 4 way tie for 9-12th place.
The Coaches:
Lynne Roberts is in her 3nd year after moving from the University of Pacific, UOP. Roberts was Head Coach at UOP for 9 seasons, being named Conference Coach of the Year twice in the last three years. Before UOP Roberts was Head Coach at Chico State for 4 seasons. Utah improved quite a bit last season.
Gavin Peterson is in his 3nd year after 2 seasons with Roberts at UOP. Peterson has been an assistant in the West since 2002 and an Associate Head Coach for 6 of those seasons.
Danyelle Snelgro is in her 3nd year after a season at TCU and 2 seasons at Fresno State. She played at Utah State.
Joanna Reitz is in her first season as a coach at Utah. Reitz has coached for 7 years mostly D2.
Losses:
Paige Crozon averaged 10 points and 5 rebounds. Paige also made 49 threes at 35%. She made 1/3 of the Utes three point shots.
Malia Nawahine averaged 10 points and 3 rebounds. Malia made 41 threes at 32%.
Together Malia and Paige made about 2/3 of the Utes three point shots.
Joeseta Fatuesi played in just 9 games.
Additions:
Megan Huff is a 6-3 Redshirt Jr Forward who transferred from Hawaii and will redshirted this past season. At Hawaii two seasons ago she averaged 10 points and 6 rebounds. She went to Hawaii to play Volleyball but switched to Basketball.
Jordan Cruz is a 5-11 Frosh Guard from Sacramento. She made 13 threes in one of her HS games and averaged 20 points as a Sr. Jordan was ranked # 111.
Tori Williams is a 5-10 Frosh Guard from Idaho. Tori averaged 22 points as a Sr. She was ranked # 99.
Elli Koskinen, 6-5 Frosh Post from Finland. Elli has played at least 4 years for various Finnish National age group teams.
Dru Gylten is a 5-11 Frosh Guard from South Dakota. Dru led her team to 4 straight State Championships and was All State her last 2 seasons.
Arianna LaLonde is a 6-4 Frosh Froward from Arizona. Arianna will be redshirting this season.
Maurane Corbin is a 6-5 Frosh Post from Quebec, who averaged 15 points and 13 rebounds as a Sr.
The Schedule: The Utes play Stanford and Cal once each and also the Oregon schools once each. Huge break as all four of these teams should be top 5-6. The non conference schedule has Alabama, St Marys, BYU and Purdue.
The Team:
Emily Potter is a 6-6 Sr Post who averaged 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocked shots. Potter was a member of the Canadian National Team.
Tanaeya Boclair is a 6-0 Sr Wing who averaged 10 points and 4 rebounds.
Erika Bean is a 5-8 Jr Guard. Bean is from the Sacramento area and averaged 4 pints, 4 rebounds and 5.5 assists last season.
Wendy Anae is a 6-3 Sr Forward who averaged 4 points and 3 rebounds in 13 minutes last season.
Daneesha Provo is a 6-0 Redshirt Jr Guard. Provo transferred from Clemson where she scored 5 points per game as a Frosh and was on the Canadian National Jr team. Provo averaged 3 points and 2 rebounds in 12 minutes.
Kiana Moore is a 5-7 Soph Guard from Vacaville who averaged 3 points in 12 minutes.
Megan Jacobs is a 6-1 Frosh Wing from Las Vegas. Her brother plays Pro Football with Carolina. Megan averaged 3 points in 13 minutes.
Tilar Clark is a 5-10 Sr Guard who averaged 3 points in 8 minutes.
Predictions:
Only three players return who averaged 14 or more minutes per game, although all three were starters. Several interesting new players, four are 6-3 to 6-5. Should be interesting, but not top 6 in the Pac 12.
2018 Recruiting: No Commits yet.
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