LAFAYETTE – 5,500 career points.
Read that preivous sentence again.
That's what Louisiana Women's Basketball freshman Andrea Cournoyer scored over her long high school career at Merryville High School in Merryville, Louisiana.
But she did not get to that number overnight, or by accident. Cournoyer started playing at the varsity level when she entered the sixth grade, cracking the starting lineup during that season and not giving her spot back until she graduated seven years later.
That experience allowed her to grow her game faster, putting her up against young women who were knocking on the collegiate door while she was just getting into junior high.