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BE LIKE SANIYA By Amanda Lisk
ASHLEY HIGH SCHOOL GUARD COULD BE WILMINGTON’S NEXT BASKETBALL SUPERSTAR
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SOUTH CAROLINA is one of the elite
women’s basketball programs in the
country. Head coach Dawn Staley
led the Gamecocks to the NCAA
championship in 2017, and they were ranked
No. 1 this year when the season was canceled
by COVID-19.
When you’re one of the best programs in
the nation, you only recruit the best players in
the nation — like Saniya Rivers, a guard who
plays at Ashley High School in Wilmington.”
Rivers is ranked as the third-best recruit in
the United States by ESPN. A junior, she ver-bally
committed to play at South Carolina in
May. She’ll play her senior year at Ashley High
— catching some Gamecocks games when she
can — before joining the team in 2021.
“I’m going to be watching like, ‘Oh man this
is really going to be me next year.’ I’m going to
be ready to get out there,” she says.
COURTESY SANIYA RIVERS KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS
