Diamond Johnson didn’t hear her title known as within the WNBA Draft like many HBCU supporters had been hoping for, however she does have her foot within the door.
The previous Norfolk State guard is at present in coaching camp with the Minnesota Lynx, seeking to play her method onto the squad.
The 5’5 guard, who began her profession at Temple and in addition performed at NC State earlier than transferring to NSU, was requested concerning the impression of enjoying at an HBCU on her WNBA prospects.
“Simply be you. In the event you’re tremendous proficient sufficient, I feel they’ll discover you. Once I was enjoying for Norfolk State we did a very good job of setting our schedule,” Johnson instructed native media over the weekend. “We performed two SEC colleges — we ended up successful. We performed Alabama — we misplaced by 10. We performed these good mid-major colleges like Inexperienced Bay and Wyoming.”
Norfolk State beat Missouri and Auburn in non-conference play earlier than ravaging the MEAC throughout convention play. That dominance was key, in accordance with Diamond Johnson.
“After which simply dominate in your league, win each sport by 30 plus, to make it really feel prefer it’s not super-close to allow them to ever query the competitors and stuff.
NSU went 30-5 total, successful the MEAC common season and convention match earlier than dropping a heart-breaker to Maryland within the NCAA Match. Johnson was named MEAC Participant of the 12 months and was up for a number of nationwide awards. Nevertheless, she wasn’t chosen within the WNBA Draft final month. Nonetheless, having performed on the Energy 4 stage in addition to an HBCU, Johnson can converse on succeeding in faculty ball in a number of enviornments in preparation for the WNBA.
“It’s no matter matches you, it might be a P4, HBCU, smaller college. Simply do what makes you content after which clearly whenever you get there you bought to ball out and so they’ll discover you.”
