Sunday, September 2, 2012

DFW Talent Pool Never Dry

Taylor Booze

I remember the first time I saw DFW Elite play, they had an outstanding squad loaded with next level players including Takia Starks who became Texas A&M's all time leading scorer and Jillian Samuels, one of the top three point shooters in the country in high school who kept putting up numbers on the court at SMU where she's now putting them up off the court as she's with the staff

That was their top squad however when we played their younger team, it was equally loaded with players who went on to play at the next level and prior to that game I remember one young lady doing some drills worth of her own "And 1" tape, Taylor Booze. That game went three overtimes and both teams combined for probably close to forty threes and out of the 50-60 colleges that were there when it started, I believe just about everyone stayed until the game was over well past midnight.

That was over eight years ago and even though Marques Jackson is no longer with us, the tradition has remained the same as the program continues to produce next level players galore. Their 2016 squad was very impressive during the Big Stae Flava with several players standing out including Gabby Gregory, Jordan Stover and Alexis Baston all about to enter high school, along with a 2017 young lady I featured on a Fullcourt.com tip sheet, Bria Powell from the 2017 class

These are just a few, I'll be keeping tabs on that team in the not so distant future as everyone showed a tremendous amount of potential