After four years at Fairfield, Lou Lopez Sénéchal wanted a new challenge.
She’d more than proven herself in the MAAC, with three all-conference first-team selections, the 2022 MAAC Player of the Year award, and an NCAA Tournament appearance. Thanks to an extra year of eligibility from the COVID season, Lopez Sénéchal entered the transfer portal in search of a new home. At that point, UConn wasn’t even on her radar.
“To be honest, not really. I didn’t think they would even reach out to me,” she said. “I wanted to go to a higher level so I was expecting bigger schools from bigger conferences to reach out but I didn’t think UConn would.