Kourouma at a glance
SCHOOL UALR
POSITION Forward
HEIGHT 5-11
CLASS Redshirt sophomore
HOMETOWN Kati, Mali
NOTEWORTHY Averaged 18.7 points and 10.3 rebounds per game during junior college season. … Played for Mali in both the U16 and U18 FIBA Women’s World Cups. … Earned consecutive Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week honors to start the 2021-22 season.
Sali Kourouma came home from practice one night in early 2019 and had a choice: She could eat pork for dinner or nothing at all.
As a Muslim, pork is forbidden, so Kourouma asked her coach -- whom she was living with at the time -- if she could have something else.