For most of the Adia Barnes era, international players have flocked to Arizona. It started with her first real class, which included Spanish guard Lucia Alonso, and never stopped. Last year, Barnes and her staff brought in Anna Gret Asi from Estonia and Gisela Sanchez from Spain to join a group that already included Shaina Pellington (Canada), Derin Erdogan (Turkey), and Helena Pueyo (Spain).
Early in her tenure at Arizona, head coach Adia Barnes made it clear that she recruited heavily overseas simply because she couldn’t get top Americans to look at the Wildcats.