5-foot-11 Jada Dapaa is full of positive energy. As the length of this interview attests, she is a passionate, intelligent and fun person. When playing for Saint Francis during the 2021-22 NCAA season, she was named the NEC Defensive Player of the Year, NEC Most Improved Player and an All-NEC First Team member. Although she is now sidelined with an injury, she doesn’t plan on ending her basketball career. At least not yet.
How were you recruited, and what made you decide on Saint Francis?
Actually, it’s funny story. I was originally not recruited by anyone to go play basketball. I had no offers. And around the end of my senior year of high school basketball, in around February, I joined an AAU team, or rather, another AAU team; I switched teams. And Coach Joe [Haigh], who was the head coach of Saint Francis at the time, saw me because his daughter was on the AAU team. So I actually met his daughter first on my AAU team, and then that’s how I got to know him. And he saw me play a couple AAU games, and he found out that I was a senior and I wasn’t committed anywhere, doing anything really. And he kind of approached me and said he was interested. We came to the conclusion that I was gonna go to Saint Francis…
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