NYA Training w/ Britt

Ketia Swanier, GraceAnne Woods, Brittany Hunter

Grace had a great time on Saturday working with Brittany and Ketia Swanier. She is really starting to understand using angles and cutting off her defender. She had a game later Saturday and told me she found herself making moves that Brittany had her working on earlier in the day without even realizing it. Brittany really makes things fun while getting soo much accomplished at the same time. Grace is having a great time working with her and, as a bonus, dad and daughter get to spend a few hours together chatting on the car ride back and forth too. Very cool.




Ketia played for UConn with Brittany, plays pointguard for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA and is planning on playing in Europe for the upcoming season. She is also a super cool person, very, very nice... told Grace she needs to dunk, chatted about some of her own experiences as well as about NBA and bball in general. Kind of amazing how it seems like everyone Grace meets through her basketball experiences has been so chill, kind and wants to be helpful. We've been extremely fortunate to have met some very fine people and wonderful role models for GraceAnne.



It would be fantastic if Grace wants to always play ball but even if she decides to take another path so many of the experiences she has been having will help her navigate her way through life. Super proud of her.

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