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The Guardian's coverage of women's sports has stepped up during the last several years:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/20/jayda-curry-louisville-wnba-prospect-paris-training

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..One school did come calling: the University of California, Berkeley. As it happened, Cal was a good fit for Jayda in a lot of ways. It was close to home, which kept her near to her family. She also knew a handful of players from time on the West Coast circuit, so the decision to sign with a school sight unseen in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic wasn't the most difficult to make.

But a good vibe wasn't everything Jayda was looking for, and coming out of high school unranked without a lot of recruitment prospects left her with a chip on her shoulder. The only thing she could do was to go into her first collegiate season like a storm, so that's what she did.

"I hit the ground running in the sense of, 'I got to play,'" Jayda explained. "I wasn't heavily recruited out of high school. I wasn't ranked out of high school … you just feel like you've got to do what you've got to do." She headed into the season with one goal: "to show people why they should have recruited me".
Her teammates and coaches rallied around her, and by early 2022 Jayda's name was floated as a first-round draft pick for the 2025 WNBA draft. But something changed during her sophomore year at the school, and Jayda began to lose her way..

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"But something changed during her sophomore year at the school, and Jayda began to lose her way..."

d'oh

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