Back to the UConn Huskies Newsfeed

Despite injury, Kyla Irwin maintained her presence in UConn’s AAC Title victory

A fractured elbow and subsequent surgery might’ve knocked Kyla Irwin out for the rest of the season but it couldn’t stop her from delivering a pre-game ritual: A short rap, written by the senior herself.

“She sent us her video, her rap that she does before every game,” Crystal Dangerfield relayed. “We call them ‘Short Poems by Kyla Irwin.’”

Dangerfield declined the share Monday’s video but said it lived up to high bar that Irwin has set.

“I can’t play it and I don’t have that type of memory,” she said. “It’s four solid bars though, I’ll tell you that.