Feyonda Fitzgerald had no idea how close she was to a triple-double. Her coach, Tonya Cardoza, did.
Cardoza usually doesn’t worry too much about trying to leave a player out on the court for an individual accomplishment, but she was persuaded into keeping her senior guard out on the floor for a few extra minutes to try and record the first triple-double in program history.
“I had all these people in my ear to put her back out there,” Cardoza said.
Fitzgerald finished with 14 points, nine rebounds and eight assists — one rebound and two assists short — before Cardoza took her out with just less than four minutes left in the game.