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Kyla Irwin emerging as mentor for UConn freshmen class

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It’s never easy to be a freshman. But coming in as a freshmen to an 11-time national championship team with three returning All-Americans? That’s a lot to handle.

Luckily, the UConn Huskies women’s basketball sophomore class is best-equipped to help the transition for the youngest members of the program, as they just went through being freshmen themselves a season ago.

“When you are a sophomore, you’re kind of an in-between class,” Kia Nurse said. “You just went through everything that the freshmen are going through and you’re kind of doing things on your own now.”

Since they aren’t far removed from freshman year, the second-year players have been working hard to establish the culture of the program.