Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Brief Recruiting Update

According to a poster UMMM on umgoblue.com, Rachel Sheffer made a verbal commitment to Coach Dawn Plitzuweit at the Virginia Commonwealth game last night.

Apparently Jenny Ryan's verbal commitment is "official"- this article in the Saginaw News which names her to the newspaper's dream team refers to her commitment:

The Associated Press named Ryan the Class C player of the year after the third-year guard averaged 17 points, 3.8 assists, 3.5 rebounds and five steals per game. Her scoring ebbed and flowed with the needs of the team, as did just about every other aspect of her game.

"You cannot put a price tag on her leadership ability," Hengesbach said.

The Nouvel coach did try to quantify her impact on defense, though, by keeping a new statistic that she called deflections. While Ryan, who has a verbal commitment to the University of Michigan, averaged five steals and also set a state record with 12 steals in a state final game, she also gets her hand on dozens more passes and shots each game.

"She is so good at reading the players and teams we play against," Hengesbach said. "It's incredible."

That gives Michigan three verbals for the 2009 class - Rachel Sheffer, Jenny Ryan and Samantha Arnold. It is shaping up to be a nice class.

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