Dogma Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 303 Content Count: 5,550 Reputation: 866 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/07/2009 Share Posted April 18, 2015 (edited) TAMPA, APRIL 17, 2015 - With an extremely successful team already returning for the 2015-16 season head coach Jose Fernandez inked two more top-flight players to his arsenal of talent. The Bulls picked up another sharpshooter as well as some depth down low, signing guard Kitija Laksa, a five-star high school recruit from Riga, Latvia, and post Nancy Warioba, an impressive junior college product who finished high school in Kisumu, Kenya before moving to America. A big post presence in the paint, Warioba joins USF after two years of junior college, and a highly-decorated sophomore season at Blinn College as a sophomore. The 6-3 sophomore averaged a double-double in just 23 minutes per game, garnering NJCAA All-Region XIV honors, as well as a spot on the All-Region XIV Conference Team and All-Region XIV Tournament Team. Warioba graduated high school from Tigoi Girls High School in Kenya, and traveled to America to pursue a degree in nursing. Laksa and Warioba are both immediately eligible, and will join the Bulls in 2015-16 as they make a run at their third NCAA Tournament in the last four seasons. Edited April 18, 2015 by Dogma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowers4Heisman Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 571 Content Count: 2,816 Reputation: 684 Days Won: 15 Joined: 12/08/2012 Share Posted April 18, 2015 It cracks me up that for men's ball, they list the weight. For women's bball, no weight listed! We are going to be even better next year. Go Bulls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogma Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 303 Content Count: 5,550 Reputation: 866 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/07/2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 It cracks me up that for men's ball, they list the weight. For women's bball, no weight listed! We are going to be even better next year. Go Bulls! I actually checked a few sites from where she played.. and I noticed the same thing... none had weight info But she looks like she has the size people were hoping for to match up with UConn Other pics: http://kwhi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Nancy-Warioba_4455.jpg http://cdn87.psbin.com/img/mw=350/mh=490/cr=n/d=jsptg/7pozs5ptnzh253pt.jpg Exciting times ahead for USF WBB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFBulls12 Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 62 Content Count: 3,697 Reputation: 930 Days Won: 7 Joined: 03/17/2012 Share Posted April 18, 2015 (edited) CJF is a special type of coach at USF along with Ken Erickson. They have the ability to bring in top level talent in any given recruiting cycle and produce. Hopefully both of these recruits are everything we hope they are. We need that third special recruit to help ease the pain of losing Courtney after next season. Edited April 18, 2015 by USFBulls12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charsibb Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 653 Content Count: 31,049 Reputation: 2,487 Days Won: 172 Joined: 08/30/2011 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Nice! We needed some size in the paint. Weber's going to be special soon, but she needs to put on some weight and have her coordination catch up to her growth spurt. Warioba looks ready to play. Hopefully she'll be a presence early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charsibb Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 653 Content Count: 31,049 Reputation: 2,487 Days Won: 172 Joined: 08/30/2011 Share Posted April 18, 2015 USF Sports Bulletin Joey Knight Bulls women sign 6-foot-3 Kenya native Friday, April 17, 2015 4:52pm No fewer than three continents will be represented on the USF women's basketball roster next season. Coach Jose Fernandez's sprawling international recruiting net widened a bit more Friday with the school's announcement it has signed 6-foot-3 Kenya native Nancy Warioba, who spent the past two seasons at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas. She'll join Latvian 3-point specialist Kitija Laksa, whose arrival previously was reported by the Times, in the Bulls' spring signing class. Fernandez, who lost only four players from last season's 27-8 NCAA Tournament squad, still has two scholarships to give. Of the 13 players on scholarship (including the latest signees), only six are from the United States. Six are from Europe. Laksa and Warioba are immediately eligible. As a sophomore at Blinn, Warioba averaged 10.8 points and 10.2 rebounds in only 23 minutes, earning NCJAA All-Region XIV honors. Blinn finished 20-11. "Nancy improved a lot from the beginning of the year to the end," Blinn coach Jeff Jenkins told the program's official website. "She will only get better in her next two years of basketball." The Bulls return all five starters, and seven of their top eight scorers, from last season's team. ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme has them 21st in his initial 2015-16 preseason rankings. http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charsibb Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 653 Content Count: 31,049 Reputation: 2,487 Days Won: 172 Joined: 08/30/2011 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Stats http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/wbkb/2014-15/div1/players/nancywariobamy70 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raetus Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 9 Content Count: 1,037 Reputation: 309 Days Won: 12 Joined: 01/31/2010 Share Posted April 18, 2015 It cracks me up that for men's ball, they list the weight. For women's bball, no weight listed! It cracks me up that for men's basketball, they don't list the win/loss record for last season (because they were awful) on the USF athletics site, but they do for the women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinRicky Posted April 18, 2015 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 582 Content Count: 22,676 Reputation: 5,813 Days Won: 108 Joined: 09/13/2007 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Stats http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/wbkb/2014-15/div1/players/nancywariobamy70 Only worrisome thing that caught my eye is the FT %. And I wonder why the minutes per game were so low? Were they blowing people out? Conditioning? Foul trouble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogma Posted April 18, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 303 Content Count: 5,550 Reputation: 866 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/07/2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Stats http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/wbkb/2014-15/div1/players/nancywariobamy70 Only worrisome thing that caught my eye is the FT %. And I wonder why the minutes per game were so low? Were they blowing people out? Conditioning? Foul trouble? I noticed this as well and was looking into it. I noticed two things: 1) Quote from her coach: "Nancy improved a lot from the beginning of the year to the end," Blinn coach Jeff Jenkins told the program's official website. "She will only get better in her next two years of basketball." She played only 13, 11, 13 minutes in her first 3 games. Her minutes increased later on to about 30 min in closer played games, which leads to the 2nd point 2) Other games where she played low minutes: 15 min. in a game they won 95-45, 11 min. in a game won 68-39, 18 min in a game won 78-32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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