It would have been easy to cash out last summer after the Commodores missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999. In fact, Paris Kea, Heather Bowe, Audrey-Ann Caron-Goudreau and Khaleann Caron-Goudreau all did, transferring out of Vanderbilt and leaving the program both without four players expected to play big roles in the 2015-16 season and with no incoming freshmen to replace them.
This season’s focus, however, hasn’t been on who left the program, but who’s still here.
Occupying the place of a nameplate on the team’s practice jerseys is “Invest,” one of the team’s mantras for this season.