The Toledo women’s basketball team is loaded.
Quinesha Lockett and Sophia Wiard were both selected preseason first-team All-Mid-American Conference. The Rockets were nearly unanimous favorites to win the league. A team that won a record 19 MAC games last season will go 10-deep in 2022-23.
And the only reason it isn’t 11 is that Hannah Noveroske suffered a season-ending injury.
But Lockett, Wiard, and coach Tricia Cullop deflect the praise and shift the spotlight to unheralded teammates that deserve their own distinction.
Sammi Mikonowicz, Khera Goss, Soleil Barnes, Justina King, and Jessica Cook were names that Lockett, Wiard, and Cullop believe will become common this season, beginning with Monday’s opener against Wright State at 11 a.