East Carolina University’s women’s basketball team’s senior center Thais Oliveira is off to the best start of her Pirate career. Through eight games, putting up career highs in points (9.5), rebounds (eight), blocks (two) and field goal percentage (46.7), she also leads the team in all those categories.
This success comes after Oliveira played limited minutes off the bench last season due to a nagging foot injury that impacted her play during the season, offseason and summer workouts.
“I was really feeling upset, frustrated and just unhappy overall because basketball is a big part of my life so it just feel like my life was terrible,” Oliveira said.