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Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart: ‘I’m not really used to losing’
Jun 8, 2016, 3:07 PM | Updated: 3:48 pm
Seattle Storm's Breanna Stewart is transitioning to the pros after her college teams finished a combined 160-1 the past three seasons. (KIRO Radio)
(KIRO Radio)
While playing for the University of Connecticut, Breanna Stewart won four National Championships and three Naismith Player of the Year awards. Her UConn teams finished with a combined 160-1 record over the past three seasons.
The 6-foot-4 forward is arguably the greatest women’s college basketball player of all time and was drafted No. 1 overall in April by the WNBA’s Seattle Storm.
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Despite the accolades, though, transitioning into the professional ranks has its challenges. The 21-year-old told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson that the Storm’s early struggles have been “definitely different.”
“I’m not really used to losing this often but I think that it’s a good challenge,” she said of the Storm’s 3-5 record. “If you were to look night-in, night-out, we’re challenging with the best players in the league, the best teams in the league. And we’re a young team. Playing at UConn, I played with those players for four years in a row, or even before I came there. Now it’s trying to create that chemistry on the fly. I think we’re doing pretty good. A lot of the games, we’ve been in the game.”
Listen to Stewart talk about playing for legendary coach Geno Auriemma and not being concerned about the Zika virus when traveling to Rio for the Olympics.
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