ROUX: Lady Cajuns add shooting guard Parker
Panola Jr. College product averaged 18.5 points a game.
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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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com
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