Kenny Brooks putting Kentucky women’s basketball back on radar for nation’s top recruits.

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Since his arrival in late March, new Kentucky women’s basketball head coach Kenny Brooks has aggressively gone about building his inaugural roster.

From experienced, 1,000-point scorers to talented underclassmen and exciting Division I newcomers, Brooks’ 2024-25 team has captured attention across college basketball and catapulted the Wildcats back into the national spotlight.

Big Blue Nation is buzzing about the potential of the program under Brooks, patiently waiting for the start of a new chapter.

Meanwhile, the work never stops on the recruiting trail.

Brooks and his staff signed UK’s first top-50 prospect since 2020 in Lexi Blue (No. 40 in 2024) during their first, brief recruiting cycle. Her commitment might be only the beginning. Several high-profile prospects have already reported scholarship offers from the Wildcats in the classes to come.

Soon after Brooks was hired, the state’s top two recruits in the class of 2025, Sacred Heart’s ZaKiyah Johnson and Bethlehem’s Leah Macy, added UK to their lists of finalists; Macy ultimately chose Notre Dame over UConn, Kentucky and Louisville, but Johnson remains uncommitted, with the Wildcats in consideration alongside heavy hitters like South Carolina, LSU, Southern California and UCLA.

Brooks’ recruiting prowess also transcends the commonwealth. On Wednesday, Canadian guard Agot Makeer — the No. 6 recruit in the class of 2025 and a UK offer holder since the Kyra Elzy era — named UK to her top 12 alongside UConn, Duke, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, South Carolina, UCLA, Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech.

Suddenly, Kentucky women’s basketball is able to operate at an elite level in the recruiting world. Brooks at the helm opens new doors, and causes recruits who might not have been previously in the mix to take a second look and see just what the Wildcats have to offer.

Not every prospect, five-star or otherwise, will publicly announce which programs have offered scholarships, but the ones who have posted following successful contact with Brooks or members of his staff should reassure fans that UK is in the running for some of the high school ranks’ best and brightest.

Here are nine recruits who’ve reported scholarship offers from the Wildcats since April.

Manuella Fernandes Barros Alves

Class: 2025 (No. 64)

Height: 6-3

Position: Forward

Hometown: Sao Paulo, Brazil

High school: Central Pointe Christian Academy (Fla.)

AAU team: Essence EYBL

Reported offers: Alabama, Arizona, Boston College, BYU, FAU, Georgia, Georgia State, Gonzaga, Illinois, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Penn, UAB, UCF, USF, West Virginia.

Notable: Alves has already played against some of the toughest talent in her age group with the Brazilian Junior National Team, and Brooks has had his eye on her for quite some time. Initially offered by his staff at Virginia Tech, Alves posted May 2 that she had received an offer from UK.

Central Pointe head coach Wesley Arocho told the Herald-Leader that Alves’ international playing experience has taught her valuable lessons and helped her, in particular, improve her basketball IQ.

“Playing against the top players around the world helped her to see the game a little bit different,” Arocho said. “I think that she understands the game really, really well. That helped her. I think you’re gonna see that when she goes to college, it will be easier for her (because of that experience).”

Quotable: “She’s really good on the post and close to the basket,” Arocho said in describing Alves’ offensive game. “Floater, she can finish left, she can finish right. ... And she has something that I don’t see in a lot of players; she has a lot of energy, basically from the beginning of the game up to the last quarter. She has a lot of energy. She plays really, really hard.”

Of Alves’ defense, Arocho said: “She can rebound the ball and bring the ball up on the court. She can block shots, she can rebound the ball. She’s special. ... I think that she’s one of the best defenders in the country. Because she can defend guards and she can defend posts. She’s really good on that.”

Kaelyn Carroll

Class: 2025 (No. 29)

Height: 6-2

Position: Wing

Hometown: Dedham, Massachusetts

High school: Tabor Academy (Mass.)

AAU team: Bay State Jaguars

Reported offers: Alabama, Arizona, College of Charleston, Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgetown, Harvard, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, N.C. State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, USF, Virginia Tech, Villanova, Wake Forest, Wisconsin, Xavier.

Notable: Carroll’s AAU team, the Northeast-based Under Armour circuit program Bay State Jaguars, posted to social media that Carroll had received a UK offer; Carroll herself confirmed the offer and said she’s “so grateful to (Brooks) and Kentucky women’s basketball” for the opportunity.

Carroll earned an invitation to participate in the 2024 USA Basketball Women’s U18 National Team trials.

A starter for competitive prep school Tabor Academy, the rising senior helped lead the Seawolves to a 22-6 record last season. During her junior season, Carroll impressed head coach Will Becker with her positive attitude and leadership through adversity when she missed the start of the high school season with a high ankle sprain.

Quotable: “I couldn’t have asked for more,” Becker told the Herald-Leader. “She couldn’t be out on the floor playing, so she was just the loudest kid on the bench. Hopping out on the floor any time to celebrate one of her teammates. But what she did that really impressed me was, we had two new sophomores, and she just took them under her wing. And to have someone as high-profile as Kaelyn just stop and spend time with you and make sure you know where your classes are and make sure you know what time to be at the gym and how to handle study hall. She led them around and helped them adjust to the school and adjust to the season. When a kid of that caliber, of that kind of talent, is that selfless, then everyone else on the team has to be that kind of teammate, too.”

Becker said the first thing that catches your eye about Carroll offensively is “just how well she shoots the ball.” He also said she reads the game well, and cited how her unselfishness — though he thinks, at times, “she could be a little bit more selfish, and that’s a good problem to have” — benefits everybody.

“She’s a 44% three-point shooter. And because she’s so tall, and she has a quick release and a high release, she can always get her shot off. And she’s just a deadly shooter. ... She has a lot of gravity, the defense is going to be shifted toward her. So when she draws two, she makes a good read. She’s also good at driving into gaps and drawing that second defender and then feeding the post.

Defensively, “She’s a guard who likes to rebound,” Becker said, noting Carroll’s 11 boards per game as a junior. “She gets a lot of steals and deflections. She has really quick hands and good feet. … She plays with all the right kind of confidence on the floor, but there’s no ego off the floor.”

Lauren Hurst

Class: 2025 (No. 35)

Height: 6-2

Position: Wing

Hometown: Cleveland, Tennessee

High school: Cleveland (Tenn.) High School

AAU team: East TN Air Thunder

Reported offers: Alabama, Arkansas, Boston College, Clemson, Florida, George Washington, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, N.C. State, Middle Tennessee State, Mississippi State, Murray State, Ole Miss, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, Tennessee, Tennessee Tech, UCF, USF, Virginia Tech, Western Kentucky, Wake Forest, West Virginia.

Notable: Not every basketball recruit is a two-time Gatorade Volleyball Player of the Year, but Hurst’s versatility on both courts makes her unique.

As a junior at Cleveland High School, Hurst led the Blue Raiders in multiple statistical categories, including points (14.9), rebounds (8.7), assists (2.4), steals (2.3) and blocks (1.7) per game. She shot 44% from the field, 80% from the free-throw line and 36% from three-point range.

Initially offered by Elzy, Hurst announced April 10 that, “after a great phone call” with Brooks, she received an offer from the Wildcats. She was invited to participate in the 2024 USA Basketball Women’s U17 National Team trials. Hurst is the sister of Tennessee men’s basketball walk-on Grant Hurst and South Alabama volleyball player Addison Hurst.

Quotable: Craig Campos, Hurst’s AAU coach, told the Herald-Leader that Hurst’s ceiling is high; because her focus has been split between basketball and volleyball, the basketball world has not yet seen the best of Hurst.

“I’ve been coaching her since eighth grade, and so I knew that she had talent,” Campos said. “I did not know she was gonna blow up to be Power Five, but I knew she was a D-I kid. ... She has not put 100% into basketball. And, when she does that, it’s going to explode.

“She blew up last year, right? She’s probably three times better (of a) ball handler now. So they’ve been working on that. She’s gonna go for basketball, so they have now stepped up and ramped up the trainings and all that, and her game has just come a long way. And here’s the thing, I think she just turned 17. ... I think that’s what a lot of people are intrigued by her, is that her ceiling is so high.”

Campos said Hurst’s years in volleyball have translated well to basketball.

“With the way she plays volleyball, she jumps off of two feet, so she does a great job of jumping,” Campos explained. “Her rebounding, her standing rebounds off of two feet, she can jump over a lot of people to grab the board. She’s really good at timing, so blocking shots. She blocks four or five shots a game, and I think it’s the timing. When the ball’s up in the air, when to slam it, so she knows kind of how to time. It keeps her in shape, it does a good job, it works some different muscles.”

Although Campos typically plays her as an off-ball guard, Hurst can play the 2 through the 4, and can be a serviceable point guard if needed.

“She’s a really good shooter. I mean, she got an offer last year from Boston College just in warm-ups. Her shot is absolutely impeccable. Like as good as Caitlin Clark is with her shot, her shot is kind of different. You look at Lauren, and you could put that in a book. I mean, her shot is as fluid of a shot as you can see. Everyone says it, I mean, it’s as smooth as glass.”

Kate Harpring

Class: 2026 (No. 18)

Height: 5-10

Position: Guard

Hometown: Atlanta

High school: Marist School (Ga.)

AAU team: Southeast All Stars

Reported offers: Arizona, Arizona State, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi State. North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Providence, Purdue, TCU, Utah, Vanderbilt, Yale.

Notable: Harpring is the daughter of longtime NBA forward Matt Harpring and the sister of Georgia Tech football tight end Luke Harpring. Kate Harpring, a Class 6A state champion in Georgia with her Marist squad, was invited to participate in the 2024 USA Basketball Women’s U17 National Team trials.

On May 18, Brooks was in attendance at the Power 48 event in Atlanta to watch Harpring, whom his staff offered a scholarship earlier in the week. He had previously offered Harpring when he was at Virginia Tech.

Quotable: According to trainer and basketball consultant Brandon Clay, who works with Harpring through her AAU club, the Georgia High School Association 6A player of the year found success as a guard through her ability to meet the moment.

“The game doesn’t speed her up,” Clay said. “I think, for a lot of kids, the game is faster. The game changes how they play and how they maneuver, and she just is never sped up. It doesn’t matter if Kenny Brooks is sitting there, or if she’s playing a top-ranked kid in the country. ... The moment is never too big for Kate Harpring, and that is a rare occasion. Especially at this age.”

As a sophomore at Marist, Harpring led the War Eagles to a 30-1 record and willed the team to victory with a 45-point performance in an overtime playoff win along the path to the state title. It was her second 45-point game with the War Eagles.

Clay said Harpring is capable of shining in either of the guard positions, stating that Harpring has “all the qualities you want in a point guard,” but that she can also “go to work” in an off-ball role.

Clay confirmed that she’s good at guarding both on and off that ball, and jumps passing lanes. Clay likened Harpring’s ability to do it all to a Patrick Mahomes or a Tom Brady in football; the idea being that whatever is demanded in order to win, she will not only be the first one to do it, but she’ll do it well, with no questions asked. Her leadership, Clay said, is rooted in leading by example. He even cited one of Big Blue Nation’s recent favorites, Reed Sheppard, when discussing Harpring’s work ethic.

“She really works as if she’s not any good,” Clay said. “It’s the biggest compliment I think you can pay a player at any age. Reed Sheppard, right? Reed Sheppard worked all year long as if Reed Sheppard wasn’t any good ... and now here we are. Not a ton of ‘hero’ there. That’s the thing for Kate, how she just approaches her business every day. She shows up as if she’s never won a thing, and, as a result, she wins a lot.”

Trinity Jones

Class: 2026 (No. 5)

Height: 6-2

Position: Guard

Hometown: Naperville, Illinois

High School: Bolingbrook (Ill.) High School

AAU team: Mac Irvin Lady Fire.

Reported offers: Arizona, Baylor, Clemson, Dayton, DePaul, Florida, Florida State, Illinois, Illinois-Chicago, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, South Carolina, SMU, TCU, UCF, UCLA, Wisconsin.

Notable: Considered Illinois’ top prospect in the class of 2026, Jones won gold at the 2023 FIBA Americas U16 Championship with Team USA.

She was invited to participate in the 2024 U17 trials, and also took part in the inaugural Stewie 30 Elite Camp, a training and development event founded by WNBA All-Star Breanna Stewart in March. Brooks offered her at Virginia Tech in August 2023, ahead of her first season at Bolingbrook (26-4) after a successful freshman campaign with Naperville Central. With Bolingbrook, she eclipsed 1,000 career points in January and averaged 17.2 points per game on the season. Jones announced June 26 she had received an offer from UK.

Quotable: Mac Irvin Lady Fire head coach Mac Irvin told the Herald-Leader “the thing that makes her special is how hard she plays and how relentless she plays. She’s super athletic. You know? She’s 6-2, so she’s got size mixed with athleticism. That’s a problem for a lot of high school kids.”

Irvin said Jones will “realistically end up being a 2-3 in in college,” but her versatility allows him to play her at any position.

“Sometimes I let her bring it up, or sometimes I post her up,” Irvin said. “She is one of them type players. She gets a rebound and pushes a break like no one I’ve ever seen. I kind of compare her to like, you know how LeBron James (will) get the rebound and push to the break? It would be like a girl version of that.”

Defensively, Irvin said Jones “plays the passing lanes really, really well. Because she’s really quick, she reads the passing lanes really well. Plus, she’s a good shot-blocker.”

Bella Ragone

Class: 2026 (No. 26)

Height: 6-2

Position: Guard

Hometown: Braselton, Georgia

High School: Mill Creek (Ga.)

AAU team: ATL Bucks

Reported offers: Alabama, Auburn, Baylor, Clemson, Colorado, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Illinois, Kentucky, Lipscomb, Louisville, Marist, Marquette, Miami, Mississippi State, New Mexico State, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, TCU, Texas Tech, UCLA, USF, Villanova, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, West Virginia

Notable: Before she reported a UK offer May 5, Big Blue Nation might not have been familiar with Ragone, but longtime followers of UK athletics remember her parents. Ragone is the daughter of former Louisville women’s basketball double-figure scorer Marju Sober and former U of L football quarterback Dave Ragone.

Ragone received a scholarship offer from Louisville in July 2023, and her first offer from Brooks at Virginia Tech in September of her sophomore year at Mill Creek High School, where she became the program’s fifth-ever 1,000-point scorer. Ragone is the only player to eclipse that goal in fewer than four years. Per MaxPreps, Ragone averaged 20.2 points last season.

Quotable: Mill Creek head coach Jeremy Huckaby told the Herald-Leader that Ragone is “a complete basketball player,” and said she has the ability to shift a program through leadership and skill.

“She’s the best player I’ve coached in 25 years coaching guys and girls,” Huckaby said. “I’ve had a former player win a national championship on the guys’ side and she’s just the best player I’ve ever coached. ...We didn’t really have much before Bella got here, and, I mean, she changed our entire program. She’s a program changer at our level, but certainly the next level she’s gonna have a huge impact.”

According to Huckaby, Ragone is right-handed in everything. Everything, except for when she shoots the basketball. And while she’s working on improving her ball handling with the left hand, Huckaby said he loves Ragone because she can create her own shots.

“She shoots it the same way every single time,” Huckaby said. “She scores at all three levels. Inside, outside, off the bounce. She can create her own, she can play within a system, she understands movement and spacing ... she’s a sneaky good passer, she’s real tall at 6-2, but she can get down. And she’s got a good snap on her in terms of change of direction. She can really handle it on the outside, especially in transition.”

Huckaby described Ragone’s defensive style as “very instinctual.”

“She’s so good at helpside,” Huckaby said. “She’s gotta get a little better on the ball, but helpside, she is so good. And an instinctive blocker. She blocked nearly two shots a game for us.”

Olivia Vukosa

Class: 2026 (No. 2)

Height: 6-4

Position: Forward/center

Hometown: Whitestone, New York

High school: Christ the King (N.Y.)

AAU team: Philly Rise EYBL

Reported offers: Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, Boston College, DePaul, Florida, Florida State, Harvard, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Michigan, Miami, Minnesota, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Providence, Rutgers, Southern Cal, South Carolina, Stanford, Syracuse, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA, UConn, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Notable: It’s not every year one sees a state championship performance like Vukosa’s with Christ the King this year in the New York State Catholic High School Athletic Association 2A finals. Vukosa contributed 24 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks to cap a season in which she averaged 17.5 points, 18.8 rebounds and 3.6 blocks per contest.

On Brooks’ radar for some time now, Vukosa received a Virginia Tech offer in April 2023 and announced a UK offer this year on May 2. One of the most sought-after bigs in the class, Vukosa has key experience against top competition, both within the United States and beyond; she enters her second summer as a member of the Croatia Junior National Team, playing on the U17 roster after averaging 22.6 points and 17.1 rebounds last year at the FIBA U16 Women’s European Championship.

Quotable: At Christ the King — the alma mater of basketball icons Sue Bird, Tina Charles and Chamique Holdsclaw — Vukosa is coached by longtime leader Bob Mackey, who told the Herald-Leader that Vukosa arrived as a 6-3 freshman, much bigger than the rest of her class.

“And when you saw her play, she was just that big,” he said. “But once she came in, you kind of got the idea like, ‘this kid’s different,’ because her work ethic was incredible. And the fact that she would put in the work, put in the time and she wasn’t just a back-to-the-basket player. She put the ball on the floor, she could shoot the ball. She is definitely what I think we’re seeing in the women’s game. As ‘the new bigs,’ who can do a whole lot of things and do it really well.

“It’s just a whole different game than what it used to be where a post player would just stand underneath and wait for the ball. ... We’ve found Olivia to be most effective in the baseline in the corner. And when she is, she’s very difficult to guard because now she’s 21 feet out. And now all of a sudden somebody’s got to go guard her 21 feet from the basket. She’s pretty tough when she gets moving. It’s not easy to catch her, so it’s kind of fun to watch.”

When asked how Vukosa helps his team defensively, Mackey said, “We rely on her way too much to get out and guard people and help out on the defense. She’s really effective when she’s in the lane, out on the top and she’s just hard to get around. It’s not like somebody you can just duck and, you know, she’s gonna stand still. She moves. ... Olivia can go out and guard a guard. And she’s really tough to shoot over, so if there’s a switch for some reason, it’s really hard to get that shot off on her.”

Ivanna Wilson Manyacka

Class: 2027 (No. 2)

Height: 6-1

Position: Wing

Hometown: Frederick, Maryland

High school: Bullis (Md.)

AAU team: West Virginia Thunder (Team Johnson)

Reported offers: Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Baylor, Boston College, Clemson, Columbia, Florida, Harvard, George Mason, George Washington, Georgia, Houston, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Maryland, Memphis, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Pittsburgh, Providence, Purdue, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Virginia, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Notable: Wilson Manyacka will make her celebrated Team USA debut in July at the 2024 FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup in Irapuato and Leon, Mexico.

College coaches have been invested in Wilson Manyacka for quite some time, and Brooks is no exception. He initially offered a scholarship in August 2023 while at Virginia Tech, and Wilson Manyacka’s AAU team announced April 27 she had received an offer from UK. She previously held a Kentucky offer via Elzy.

Wilson Manyacka switched to the Girls’ Under Armour circuit ahead of this summer, joining the decorated West Virginia Thunder roster coached by Scott Johnson that also features ZaKiyah Johnson and Dee Alexander, a Cincinnati commit and the No. 11 prospect in the class of 2025.

Quotable: According to Scott Johnson, Wilson Manyacka is “probably the most athletic kid in that ‘27 class,” and said her motor and athleticism have stood out to him the most since she joined his team. Johnson believes Wilson Manyacka could eventually be named the national high school player of the year during her “junior or senior year.”

“Her ceiling is crazy. Her ceiling is Maya Moore,” Johnson said. “I know that sounds crazy, but I’ve coached a lot of kids and been around a lot of them. That’s her ceiling. You know, a top-five WNBA pick.”

According to Johnson, Wilson Manyacka loves attacking the basket. Because she’s so young, he sees room for improvement in her ball handling, but doesn’t doubt that will come.

“She can shoot it,” Johnson said. “But she lives in getting downhill to the basket and in transition. ... She’s strong off (the dribble) to her right. She’s not as strong to her left. She can handle it, but she can’t handle it enough to be a point guard right now. She’s a grinder.”

One reason Wilson Manyacka moved to the West Virginia Thunder, Johnson said, is her desire to “play with other kids that were better than her.”

“That says a lot about her,” Johnson said. “You’ve got two top-five kids that’s two years older than her on our team. You’ve got seven kids on our team that have multiple high-major offers. And she left where she was the star to come be a part of a team.”

Defensively, Wilson Manyacka’s length benefits her, Johnson said, noting that he thinks she’s closer to 6-foot-2.

“On-ball defense is elite,” Johnson said. “She’s learning how to play positional help-side defense, but she’s just so long. She blocks a ton of shots. She can keep the basketball in front of her.”

Sydney Douglas

Class: 2028

Height: 6-6

Position: Foward

Hometown: Los Angeles

High school: Etiwanda (Calif.)

AAU team: Cal Stars EYBL

Reported offers: Arizona, California, Cal Poly, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, UCF, UCLA, Wisconsin.

Notable: ESPN hasn’t yet released its class of 2028 rankings, but if back-to-back summers of USA Basketball Junior National Team tryouts and an impressive showing with California powerhouse Etiwanda are any indication, Douglas’ inclusion in the inaugural list is a sure thing.

The 6-6, self-described “point (guard) forward” is the daughter of Maylana Martin, a former UCLA women’s basketball standout and first-round pick in the 2000 WNBA Draft, and Rome Douglas, former USC football lineman and NFL player. Douglas reported an offer from UK on June 5.

Quotable: Etiwanda head coach Stan Delus told the Herald-Leader that Douglas, though young, is focused on developing into a versatile threat and that her potential knows no bounds.

“It’s unlimited,” Delus said. “It’s endless. To be honest with you, if she continues to put in the effort and work that she’s doing, she could be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. We’re talking the length of Lisa Leslie with the skill set of Candace Parker. And continuing that now. She doesn’t stop working. She has the length, but she has the mindset of a guard with the strength of a post. And she has amazing footwork. Like (Victor Wembanyama) out there (with the) San Antonio Spurs, but a little bit thicker.”

It bears repeating that Douglas is entering high school at 6-foot-6. When discussing how she can affect a game defensively, it’s natural to first mention her height. But, with Douglas, the conversation doesn’t end there.

Delus said that because of her length, she covers a lot of space. He complimented Douglas’ handling of screens, and even noted that, when necessary, she has the ability to switch.

“She’s capable of taking guards on the perimeter,” Delus said. “She does a really good job of rim protecting. She rotates out of the key properly. ... She just really understands the game.”

When Douglas calls herself a “point forward,” she means it. When asked about Douglas’ ball-handling skills and shooting ability, Delus described her as “a triple threat on the floor.”

“She handles the ball very well. She’s a really good passer in transition. She can catch the ball off the dribble, she can catch and shoot the 3-pointer, she can spot up anywhere on the floor. She also has great moves on the perimeter, and mid-post area, she knows how to face up. But her ball handling and passing skills are pretty high, elite already, and she can shoot the ball very well.”

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