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Frosh Martin Earning High Praise

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She has the ability to create her own offense off the dribble, she can shoot over top of people and she ALWAYS plays hard.

Then, as he learned more about her, about how her father Terry Martin once played college basketball with Charles Barkley at Auburn and taught her the game from an early age, that really sealed it - this was a player who could come in and help right away, he thought.

And she has.

“She has lived up to everything that we felt she could be,” said Carey.

He continued.

“She can stop on a dime and pull up and rise above people and shoot that mid-jumper and that’s tough when you get somebody going off the dribble,” he explained.