6-foot-1 Da’Nasia Hood can play all three frontcourt positions and she proved that this season, averaging 21.5 points and 11.8 rebounds for Kotka Peli-Karhut in Finland. After spending her whole amateur career in Texas, she signed her first pro contract in Puerto Rico. Last season she was supposed to play in Israel, but… Well, it’s her story, we’ll just let her tell it.
21 points and 12 rebounds per game in your first season in Europe! Are you happy with those numbers? Were you expecting such an easy transition to playing across the world?
I am okay with those numbers. I feel like throughout my first year of playing, I have grown a lot and have been able to work on some things that were not as strong in college. I think my transition has been interesting and allowed me to grow in multiple ways both on and off the court. I have been training since I got out of college, so I knew that there would be some translation of the work I was putting in on the court. However, I still know that there is a lot of room for me to keep growing to reach an even higher level of my game.
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