South Carolina women\u2019s basketball alum Laeticia Amihere was one of several Gamecock alums in the WNBA who elected to play in another professional league this winter. As a tune-up for what will be her third WNBA campaign, the Canadian-born forward took her talents to Australia\u2019s WNBL (Women\u2019s National Basketball League).<\/p>\n
The move paid off for her in a big way.<\/p>\n
Amihere didn\u2019t just work on her game while with the Perth Lynx, she was one of the league\u2019s top performers. In fact, she earned first-team All-WNBL honors. <\/p>\n
On the season, Amihere averaged 15.5 points per game, 6.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.7 steals, and 1.6 blocks. Her scoring output was seventh-best in the league. Her block total was third in the WNBL, and she ranked 10th in steals. She also finished third in the WNBL in field goal percentage among qualifying players. Amihere was one of the league\u2019s best and most versatile defenders, as well.<\/p>\n
Keep up with all things Gamecocks for just $1 for 7 days\u2014lock in this special offer today<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This May, Amihere will start her first season with the Golden State Valykyries. The expansion franchise signed Amihere this offseason. She spent the first two years of her WNBA career with the Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n During her South Carolina women\u2019s basketball career, Amihere did a little bit of everything for the Gamecocks. Spending time at every position on the floor, Amihere logged a handful of starts but spent most of her days in garnet and black operating as a key reserve. She also made three SEC Academic Honor Rolls and three SEC Community Service Teams and was the SEC\u2019s Women\u2019s Basketball Leadership Council Chair for the 2021-2022 season. Amihere owns the all-time USC record for blocks in an NCAA Tournament game. She swatted nine shots against Texas in the 2020-2021 Big Dance.<\/p>\n South Carolina won three SEC regular season championships, three SEC Tournament titles, and an NCAA Tournament National Championship during Amihere\u2019s time in Columbia.<\/p>\n The post South Carolina women\u2019s basketball alum named WNBL all-pro<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Carolina women\u2019s basketball alum Laeticia Amihere was one of several Gamecock alums in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discuss South Carolina women\u2019s basketball on The Insiders Forum!<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n