Fairfield’s Lou Lopez-Senechal transferring to UConn women’s basketball team

Joe Frager retired as coach and was replaced by Carly Thibault-Dudonis, who realized Lopez Senechal experienced a visit prepared to UConn and prepared to try out to influence her to return for a fifth yr with the Stags.

But Lopez Senechal has believed all together that enjoying at a high important software would be an crucial proving ground for her qualified aspirations.

“I’m extremely grateful and quite humbled by a lot of schools achieving out,” Lopez Senechal reported last 7 days when speaking about her Fairfield vocation and foreseeable future solutions. “It’s some thing I wasn’t anticipating, even with the profession I had here. Obtaining to school, I didn’t have curiosity from those people colleges. It would make me extremely satisfied. It’s been a extremely intriguing method — not so new, but distinctive in some sort of way. I’m making an attempt to see what’s finest for me.”

Lopez Senechal was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and lifted in Grenoble, France. She expended a calendar year at a basketball academy in Ireland in advance of coming to the United States. With help from her American phase-father, she initiated most of the measures in her recruiting method, reaching out to schools. Frager stated Lopez Senechal flew beneath the radar of quite a few courses and that he most likely wouldn’t have been in a position to sign her if she had the publicity that will come with taking part in large school and AAU ball in The united states.

Lopez Senechal initially read from UConn assistant mentor Morgan Valley and a take a look at was scheduled from there.

“Having interest from one of the finest colleges in the place — maybe even the greatest school in the state — is great and I was really humbled by it,” she mentioned of remaining recruited by UConn. “The conversation has been excellent. I’m striving to see what’s ideal for me, but it certainly has been actually great with them and I’m really pleased that I’m capable to be in the dialogue with them.”

Frager reported: “Lou is a phenomenal shooter and a legitimate soar shooter, not a set shooter. At 6-1, when she rises up, she’s able to get that shot off very well. She does a nice career reading through screens, which has gotten superior more than four a long time, and she’s actually formulated a scoring mentality. When we 1st received her, she’d consider two or three pictures and miss out on and wouldn’t want to shoot any longer. I was like, ‘No, no, no. Your role on this group is to hunt your shot.’ She really grew into that. And through her junior and senior 12 months, she took almost every single major shot we experienced to get.”

Lopez Senechal will help UConn stretch defense with her variety, offering the Huskies an crucial scoring selection from the perimeter, particularly in the absence of departed seniors Christyn Williams and Evina Westbrook.

“One of my targets is to engage in skillfully,” Lopez Senechal reported. “I believe the chance of heading to a bigger school is important to me, to participate in at a bigger level, from improved opposition, working towards towards the very best gamers every single day. I imagine it’s very critical to prepare me, physically and mentally, for a larger amount. That is what I’m wanting for, a challenge for myself. One particular year, it can go by quick, but it can also give me a large amount. I’m seeking to use that the best way attainable.

“For my senior 12 months ending, and my 4 yrs in Fairfield, it couldn’t have been greater. It was terrific that we did that for Coach Frager, and it was seriously worthwhile immediately after my journey. I really feel extremely blessed. I believe I designed a seriously great determination and the rest is background. It really was a wonderful, excellent, time below.”