SAN FRANCISCO – The USF women's basketball team is finally back on the Hilltop after a 10-day multi-city Italian excursion.
The European tour included three games against professional European teams. The Dons went 1-2 in an excellent pre-season tune up for the squad. The trip concluded yesterday as the team touched down around 9 pm.
In the final few days of the trip, the Dons travelled to Trieste, a city of about 200,000 people on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in northeastern Italy, and a few natural landmarks including Lake Como.
Sophomore Ninni Salmi's gave her take on their time in Trieste:
"On Sunday we spent most of the day walking around Trieste, shopping or dipping our toes into the blue waves of the Adriatic.