VOLUME 26, ISSUE 4 31
BY KYLE CHARTERS
KCharters@GoldandBlack.com
F
inal seconds against Nebraska.
Freshman Dominique McBryde sets a high
screen for April Wilson, then curls down to-
ward the left baseline. There, Wilson feeds her the
pass — it was tipped but she corrals it — and she
turns toward the basket. There's traffic, but she's
only eight feet away, and there might be an opening,
albeit slight. Time is almost up.
And …
She passes.
The ball skitters through defenders, finally reach-
ing Ashley Morrissette, who launches an impossible
shot just to get the ball in the air.
Game over. A one-point loss.
"It was one of those passes where I could have shot
the ball," McBryde said. "(Ashley) came to me the
next day and was like, 'You are one of those players
we can look to for a last-second shot.' That's some-
thing that I didn't realize, but I was like, 'Oh.' Now
that I've been able to do these things during the game,
it's something that should go through my mind."
This has been a work in progress, not just a task for
Purdue now but for years previously: Get McBryde, a
wealth of talent in an athletic 6-foot-2 body, to play
aggressively.
"She can be really, really special, but she's got to
change her mindset," Coach Sharon Versyp said.
"She has all the skill. … She's got to get a tough,
Finding
The Drive
McBryde
has skills
to be great
Tom Campbell
