WBB signs Jr College F/C

[Dogma]

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

[Flowers4Heisman]

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!

[Dogma]

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!

[USFBulls12]

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

[charsibb]

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.

[charsibb]

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/

[charsibb]

Stats

 

http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/wbkb/2014-15/div1/players/nancywariobamy70

[Raetus]

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.

[CousinRicky]

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?

[Dogma]

 

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