Coach: Evans could build a WNBL future
A JUNIOR Queensland coach of promising Cairns teenager Summah Evans believes she has WNBL potential following her US college career.
Cairns Dolphins teen Evans last week verbally committed to the University of North Florida and her under-18 Queensland north coach, Claudia Brassard, thinks a professional career in basketball should be her next step.
Brassard, the former Townsville Fire coach who led the club to a WNBL title, described the former Cairns State
High School student as one of the better emerging rebounders she has seen.
“Summah has all those characteristics that you look for in juniors, she fits in the bill athletically, she is tall and athletic,” Brassard said. “She has all the attributes you would want in a WNBL player.
“In terms of her mental performance, she is strong and resilient and has that work ethic as well.
“If you put all those things together, I think that leads towards her having a WNBL career, and I would certainly hope so, anyway.”
Brassard believes one of Evans’ key talents is her ability to switch on to a number of different positions defensively.
“She is so gifted, she is long and quick and such a great rebounder, her ceiling is so high and her potential is large,” Brassard said.
Located in Jacksonville, the North Florida Ospreys women’s basketball team represents the University of North Florida in women’s college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Sun Conference in Division I of the NCAA.
“I want to thank everyone that has helped me along this journey, especially my beautiful parents,” Evans said on social media last week.
Evans follows in her family’s basketball footsteps, with mother Jenny (nee Reisener) being granted a basketball scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport before playing for the Australian Opals.
Evans’ older sister Teyla also spent time around the WNBL with the Dandenong Rangers and the Melbourne Boomers.
Evans joins fellow Cairns product Kody Stattmann in the NCAA college system.
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Southside Comets and Innisfail United will meet under lights tonight to determine the first FNQ Football club to qualify for Round 5 of the FFA Cup.
The Comets snuck past a spirited Marlin Coast 3-2 in their Round 3 contest at Walker Road Sporting Precinct, Edmonton, last Friday night. At the same time, the Cutters eased past Douglas United Dragons 2-1 at Innisfail. The teams will face off at Edmonton tonight with the winner just one game away from representing the region.
They will await the winner of tomorrow’s highly anticipated match between expected FNQ Premier League heavyweights Stratford and Edge Hill United at Nick Brko Field.
Tonight’s game will start at 8pm, with tomorrow’s from 7.30pm.
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