Dawn Staley has often become emotional upon the departure of players and coaches. However, on Wednesday, she grew sentimental at the loss of a prized possession, her trusty backpack.
The backpack, judging by her caption, accompanied her during her last two national championship wins in 2022 and 2024.
“We are in a no judgment zone. 🤣🤣🤣It’s so hard to say goodbye to a bag I carried for 6 years now. It owes me nothing but was everything to me. Thank for the memories and the championships but it is time to move on…only because zippers are shot! 🥹🥹🥹On deck….enclosed! 🥰🥰,”
The post featured several pictures of the ‘2022 Women’s Final Four’ backpack, showing everything she fit in there from clothing to food and books.
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Last season, Dawn Staley took the South Carolina Gamecocks to the NCAA Championship game. They fell in the final for the second season in a row, this time losing to the UCLA Bruins. The Gamecocks have made the Final Four every season since 2021.
Dawn Staley on how she got Oliviyah Edwards to commit to South Carolina
Dawn Staley recently spoke withThe State about how she was able to get Oliviyah Edwards, a five-star recruit and one of the top prospects in the class of 2026, to come to South Carolina.
Edwards initially committed to Tennessee, but it seems she always had South Carolina on her mind.
“She was supposed to come visit us before she committed to Tennessee,” Staley told The State. “She called me on her Tennessee visit to tell me that she’s committing [to Tennessee].”
But once Edwards decommitted, the Gamecocks pounced on the opportunity.
“We were on her list. Quite naturally, you just kind of go down the list,” Staley said. “…Once we were able to talk to her, we weren’t the only school that she talked to. She was talking to a few of us.”
“I just felt like our coaches, our administrators, our players did a really great job when she came on her visit,” Staley said
Now, Dawn Staley and South Carolina have the fifth-best player in the class of 2026 on their roster.
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