DeKALB — Gabby Nikitinaite, women’s basketball freshman guard, knew she wanted to play collegiate basketball in the United States when she was 13 years old.
Nikitinaite was playing for a London-based team when her former head coach, Len Busch, saw her play for the first time. Busch learned Nikitinaite had been traveling 30 miles to play for the other club and inevitably figured she would come play for his club, the Sevenoaks Suns, after learning the guard lived closer to the town of Sevenoaks.
“She started training with us, and we let her play out that season with her old club, and she joined our club the next year,” Busch said.