South Carolina’s women’s basketball team has taken the first step in its national championship defense, holding its first practice for the upcoming 2017-2018 season on Tuesday.
The team’s official Twitter account marked the occasion by releasing a hype video.
Practice officially starts today. Who's ready? #Gamecocks @dawnstaley pic.twitter.com/YMfdFo9Fks
— GamecockWBB (@GamecockWBB) October 3, 2017
Tuesday also marks the first day back in Columbia for Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley and her star player, senior forward A’ja Wilson, who spent the past weekend in California for a training camp for the USA Basketball’s senior national team, making for a long week that Staley referenced on Twitter.