Alma Elsnitz Reportedly Commits to Cal Women's Basketball
Sweden international would be a recruiting coup for first-year head coach Charmin Smith
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Alma Elsnitz, a five-foot-ten guard from Sweden, has committed to Cal, according to a tweet from Passion Hoops International, an international-focused scouting firm, posted Wednesday. The Sweden international would represent a major recruiting coup for Charmin Smith, the first-year Golden Bears women's basketball head coach.
Elsnitz, 18, is a member of her hometown basketball club RIG Lulea, a coastal city in the northernmost county of Sweden 561 miles north of Stockholm. She recently competed in the 2019 FIBA Under-18 Women's European Championship in Skopje, North Macedonia, averaging 8.3 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game in the tournament. Sweden came in fourth after a 57-65 loss to Turkey on July 14, 2019, a match in which she played only 13 minutes.
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2020, meaning she'll be on campus this fall (if any of us are)?? Coach Smith is off to an amazing start in terms of recruiting. I wouldn't have expected that recruiting would have taken such a jump; I would have thought that if she was such a great recruiter then we would have seen these type of classes in recent years with her working under Coach Gottlieb. Coach G had the advantage of previous tourney success and Coach S had the disadvantage of being a new head coach. Of course, I know little about WBB, but maybe will have to learn more...
Well done, Charmin. Nice to get some positive sports news in these dreary times. Go Bears!