The Oklahoma women’s basketball team offered three Putnam West freshmen.
Taliyah Parker and Shamar Bert announced their offers with a Twitter post on Monday night. Caya Smith’s offer was confirmed by Putnam West athletic director Lenny Bert on Tuesday afternoon.
The three athletes play for Below The Rim, an AAU team that competes nationally. Lenny has helped coach the AAU team since his daughter, Shamar, was in the second grade.
“We’ve won nationals from fourth grade on,” Lenny said. “In our age group, we’ve never lost. We had to start playing two or three years up so we could get competition.