LAFAYETTE — Breionne Cooper’s moment to take a few breaths and celebrate showed up in an unfamiliar fieldhouse, hundreds of miles from home.
While the UL-Lafayette women’s basketball team has built a 12-3 start to this season, the early stages for a quiet freshman from New Orleans included many challenges. There was a previous knee injury and other smaller injuries. In the words of coach Garry Brodhead, Cooper has been “banged up since the summer.”
There were typical adjustments for a freshman coming directly out of high school at West Jefferson.
Then there was the loss of a role model.