[jk1926]

This may have been heavily discussed prior, but I'm very interested to understand why Rice didn't come to Stanford.  Her mother was in my class and I believe her brother also went to Stanford recently.   I'm very surprised that she jumped to UCLA, but would love to know more on the background.  That decision clearly was an early loss in this unraveling of the program.

Kiki’s parents John and Andrea Rice and her brother Mateo all went to Yale.  John and Mateo played basketball at Yale and Andrea played tennis.  Her aunt Susan, John’s sister, attended Stanford and indeed hoped Kiki would follow her to Stanford.  Kiki does have family in Los Angeles.

Kiki said she chose UCLA over Stanford, UConn, Arizona and Duke partly because of the opportunity to help lead UCLA to its first NCAA Final Four and win a national championship.  With the addition of Lauren Betts and joined by Gabriela Jaquez, Angela Dugalic, Charlisse Leger-Walker and lastly Gianna Kneepkens, Kiki  achieve her goal.  Ironically the six seniors/grad students were a group of former PAC-12 players.

[jk1926]

This may have been heavily discussed prior, but I'm very interested to understand why Rice didn't come to Stanford.  Her mother was in my class and I believe her brother also went to Stanford recently.   I'm very surprised that she jumped to UCLA, but would love to know more on the background.  That decision clearly was an early loss in this unraveling of the program.

Kiki’s parents John and Andrea Rice and her brother Mateo all went to Yale.  John and Mateo played basketball at Yale and Andrea played tennis.  Her aunt Susan, John’s sister, attended Stanford and indeed hoped Kiki would follow her to Stanford.  Kiki does have family in Los Angeles.

Kiki said she chose UCLA over Stanford, UConn, Arizona and Duke partly because of the opportunity to help lead UCLA to its first NCAA Final Four and win a national championship.  With the addition of Lauren Betts and joined by Gabriela Jaquez, Angela Dugalic, Charlisse Leger-Walker and lastly Gianna Kneepkens, Kiki  achieve her goal.  Ironically the six seniors/grad students were a group of former PAC-12 players.