ROUX: Lady Cajuns add shooting guard Parker
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Panola Jr. College product averaged 18.5 points a game.</b>
LOUISIANA Là — Louisiana's Lady Cajuns basketball squad has added more reinforcements for its 2004-05 season, with a Thursday verbal commitment from shooting guard Elizabeth Parker of Panola Junior College.
Parker, a 5-foot-8 two-time Region XIV All-Conference selection, is the first commitment to Ragin’ Cajun coach J. Kelley Hall for the national letter of intent signing period that begins April 14.
The Lady Cajuns, though, already have four signees from November’s early signing period, and two other junior college players who enrolled in January and will have two years in the program.
“I’m excited about next year,” said Parker, who averaged 19.1 points as a freshman and 18.5 this past year for the Fillies. “Coach Hall was very honest about what his players can do and can’t do, and what my strengths and weaknesses are. From what I saw and what we talked about, we can do very well this coming year.”
Parker, the captain of the Panola squad the past two years, was a first-team all-league selection as a sophomore after an honorable mention selection as a freshman. She made 76 three-pointers and shot 80 percent from the free throw line this year.
“I know coach Hall uses a lot of the same strategies as our coaches here,” Parker said. “They like to play fast and aggressive, shoot it up from the outside and use a lot of inside-outside game. It really fits what I’ve been playing.”
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Parker, a native of Mesquite, Texas, helped lead the Fillies of coach Tracy Stellato to a 21-10 record and the conference playoffs this spring. While in high school at Poteet High in Mesquite, she was twice the Dallas Morning News’ player of the week and was her district’s defensive player of the year.
“I liked the school there a lot,” said Parker of her visit. “It was a totally different atmosphere than where I’m from in Dallas. It was really interesting, especially the food.”
The Cajuns signed center Sonora Edwards of Snook, Texas, guard Domonique Thomas of Hollywood, Fla., guard Alicia McDaniel of Houston and forward Whitnee Chatman of LaPlace in the early period. Already enrolled in school are Dana Crittendon of Coffeyville Community College in Kansas and Sherita Anderson of Blinn College in Texas.
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