One thing that jumped out at me when I started covering MAC women’s basketball this season was the amount of foreign born players. I never really gave it much of a second thought until this tweet came across my feed today.
Wishing Mariella Santucci the best as she participates in tryouts for the U20 Italian National team. pic.twitter.com/gceWKDmbyG
— Tricia Cullop (@CoachCullop) June 14, 2017
Being one of the top 5 freshman in the MAC, I was familiar with Ms. Santucci and her role in international competition. I am not going to pretend to be an expert on the U20 Italian National Team, but I do know that she has extensive experience playing with some of the other national youth teams, so I would think that she is going to make the team.