Idaho women’s basketball head coach Jon Newlee remembers the exact moment he first saw freshman guard Taylor Pierce on the court.
“I knew when I first saw her play, I’m not kidding you,” Newlee said. “I thought, ‘I want that kid on my team.’”
Pierce was a junior at La Costa Canyon High School in California at the time.
“She didn’t know it probably, but I put a big target on her back,” Newlee said. “She’s a baller. She was just lighting it up from three, a pure shooter.”
Pierce has already provided 161 points for the Vandals during her freshman season.