Kyra Elzy, Kentucky’s Women’s Basketball coach, made a nearly three-hour trip from Lexington to visit one of her incoming players from the class of 2022, Cassidy Rowe, earlier this month. A routine visit at this time of the year for the new HC, and an important one to make considering Rowe has been committed for over three years now. But instead of meeting the Rowe family at home or inside of her high school gym at Shelby Valley for a relaxed conversation, Elzy found herself hiking up and down the mountains of southeastern Kentucky.
Not by her own choice, however–Cassidy wanted to take her future head coach to her “side of the mountains”, as she wrote on Twitter.