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Cedar Park's Gisella Maul earns Gatorade state player of the year Less than a week after leading Cedar Park’s girls basketball team to a perfect season and a second consecutive Class 5A state championship, Gisella Maul became the first student-athlete from the Austin area named the 2021-22 Gatorade Texas girls basketball player of the year. More:Cedar Park girls complete perfect season, wins Class 5A title - see the photos The prestigious award, now in its 37th year, recognizes “outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court,” according to a press release issued by Gatorade. Maul, a 5-foot-10 junior guard certainly showed those traits during her junior season, when she averaged 25.6 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.9 steals a game and earned state most valuable player honors after scoring 27 points and pulling down 19 rebounds in a 45-40 win over Frisco Memorial. Really got us a great one. The future with Vic just keeps getting brighter and brighter.

F'ing A! Awesome way to start the week.

I'm a little worried about scholarship numbers at this point. Seem to be getting a lot of commits from the portal and recruiting, hope everyone has a chair when the dust settles. Must drive the staff crazy figuring eligibility and meeting all the position needs each year. You also wonder if anyone else already on the team will portal with the new additions.

Nothing from Maul yet?

Yeah, I'd be really happy with that. Taylor is in, Faye probably but Fields is still a big if. She just got in from sunny SoCal - USC, I hope the staff give her the royal treatment today.

Maybe @Js1 knows more but I don't see her listed as no contact. She didn't make a big splash about transferring or even announcing which makes me think she is leaving but doesn't consider herself "on the market". Vic and Lovato following her on twitter. All Academic B12 Rookie team in 2021 so she's smart and knows joining us is the right thing to do. 👍🏽

I feeling pretty good about Gisella, Mikaylah not so much but you never know.

Now we need to get Fields. Apparently she congratulated TJones on signing up with us and visits us on Monday. How could she not want to play with Rori? Glad we have Lavato and Carter in place now.

Excellent! Here we go. Would love to pick up the tech transfer for many reasons. Is Samb off the board then? Faye seems the better get.

In the crazy days of the portal when someone transfers in from elsewhere I figure they are ours for the duration, otherwise they have to sit for over a year which is forever to these kids. Unless of course you're a knucklehead like Tre M... Should give a certain level of security to the coaches if there are multiple years of eligibility remaining.

Two years of eligibility remaining?

She going to have to trade in the pink pants for some burnt orange ones. Very nice hire. Finally getting this show on the road.

Some heavy action around Tech's Freshman center Khadija Faye. Vic following her on the Insta. Not declared in the portal yet though. https://texastech.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/khadija-faye/11469

Yeah, this is lazy work. Didn't bother to wait for the chaos to settle, not trying to be accurate just looking for clicks. We need a piece or 4 and a few coaches to get to a one seed right now. LSU at 10 at this point is ridiculous but the 7 for Baylor feels gloriously accurate. From a site I saw it looked like only 230 or so of those transfers were from Power 5 schools and almost 900 from non P5. Don't know if I've got that right but seemed significant.

Not that I have seen, certainly nothing that has been updated lately. There were NCAA wbb tourney threads.

Like was said, she is a grad transfer. We don't know why she chose Georgia over Texas. All of the seniors chose to enter the portal.

If Tre has to sit, and I don't see why he would not, he will have about a full year and 8 months since he left and his next college game. Nice career management dad.

Martinez to LSU Furq

It's getting discouraging, we needed Soares with Ebo gone. Samb just isn't in the same league at this point, not that we have her locked in either. Not sure who we are trying to get but can't help but think Vic's attention is divided after losing all the assistant coaches. You would think some of these players would want to play with Rori, maybe we are a hard sell without position coaches in place to help people develop. We've got some good pieces but need a few more to compete with Iowa State etc. Hope AC's crap isn't being used against us.

Staff on website changed today.

Would we call Carter and Spann homerun hires? Lovato seemed perfect for our situation but I don't know jack about these two. Are these good coaches for position instruction? Under 30 up and coming sounds good.

22-23 Roster now up on Texassports.com minus the incoming freshman.

Very classy of her to thank the Texas coaches and program, wonderful young lady. Feeling better about her at Georgia, but will still hurt to see her in a different uni. Keep wearing your collar Audrey.

I feel all of our seniors represented the University well, gave their all for the program while they were here, and owe us nothing at this point. I certainly respect their right and wishes to create new opportunities and experiences for themselves - grad students often and probably wisely choose to go to a different school for their final year of basketball. That being said, it will certainly bite to see any of them in a different uniform and celebrating with a different team. They could have chosen UT but they did not, and petty though it may be I can't help but feel that tarnishes their UT legend temporarily. In a few years I will look back on them with affection but for a while less so. Not right or wrong, just how I feel about it.

Yeah, her minutes started at about 36-40 and then half way through the year dropped off to about 10-12. I'm sure she wants more playing time and she is trending a bad direction. May not be correct but her sister staying may have been a factor in her leaving due to minutes available. Maybe not though. I guess Ashley wants her degree, not sure her stock is going to get any higher than it is right now.