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The South Carolina girls’s basketball workforce is having one other sturdy season underneath the management of head coach Daybreak Staley.
Senior Gamecocks heart Kamilla Cardoso is having a breakout season and can seemingly appeal to the eye of a number of WNBA groups if she decides to declare for the draft.
Cardoso was born in Montes Claros, Brazil, and spent her freshman season at Syracuse.
Cardoso is in her third season at South Carolina. She entered the beginning lineup this 12 months instead of Aliyah Boston, final 12 months’s Naismith Faculty Participant of the Yr, who was the No. 1 general choice in final 12 months’s WNBA Draft.
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Kamilla Cardoso (10) of the South Carolina Gamecocks in motion towards Delaney Thomas (12) and Camilla Emsbo (21) of the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium, December 3, 2023, in Durham, NC (Lance King/Getty Photographs)
Cardoso’s stellar efficiency this season has helped the Gamecocks to a 28-0 report. South Carolina will host the Tennessee Volunteers on Sunday in each groups’ common season finales.
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Cardoso has confronted quite a few setbacks throughout her rise to basketball stardom. She initially left her dwelling nation when she was in highschool and enrolled in a college in Tennessee, which allowed Cardoso to hone her basketball expertise.
Though Cardoso made progress, she struggled with being 1000’s of miles away from her household. Regardless of feeling homesick at instances and having to beat a language barrier, Cardoso obtained an athletic scholarship to Syracuse.
She obtained Atlantic Coast Convention honors after her freshman season in upstate New York and determined to switch to South Carolina, the place she continued to shine.
The Gamecocks shared a video of Cardoso’s emotional reunion along with her household on Saturday.
“Household above all else,” the South Carolina girls’s basketball program captioned the social media put up.
“That is an unimaginable second for all of us … for somebody who has made unimaginable sacrifices for her household over the previous eight years … only for this sport, only for the sport she loves,” Staley stated as she welcomed the workforce.
‘Now we have the chance to do one thing very particular… sure Kamilla… Kamilla. Let’s convey the individuals who have additionally made that sacrifice over the previous eight years.’
South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Daybreak Staley joins the workforce’s alma mater after a win over Mississippi Valley State at Colonial Life Enviornment in Columbia, SC, November 24, 2023. (Jeff Blake/USA Immediately Sports activities)
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn reportedly helped Staley coordinate the shock reunion.
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Sunday’s sport additionally marks senior day for the South Carolina girls’s workforce. Departing gamers are often honored and accompanied by their households. It seems like Cardoso will get the possibility to share her particular second along with her household this weekend.
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