As the Arizona Wildcats enter Senior Day on Sunday, head women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes is already looking ahead to her next big recruiting pitch—to her seniors.
Barnes has three players who could come back next year because of the free year granted to winter athletes by the NCAA. Along with four-year stalwart Sam Thomas and all-everything Aari McDonald is grad transfer Trinity Baptiste, who has made an impact both on and off the court in her lone year at Arizona.
“Let me say first, from the moment Coach Adia found out that they’re giving everyone an extra year she’s been recruiting me,” Baptiste said.