When Vionise Pierre-Louis walked down the red carpet at Lloyd Noble Center on senior night nearly two weeks ago, she was flanked by her mother, brother and Kimberly Davis Powell.
Without Davis Powell, her AAU basketball coach, the Lake Worth, Florida, native isn't sure she'd be at Oklahoma.
A late bloomer, Pierre-Louis learned the game from her brother in eighth grade. After a season of travel ball, she found Davis Powell and her AAU team.
That's when Pierre-Louis' basketball career took off.
“(My first team) just put me at the block and told me to layup and rebound,” Pierre-Louis said.