Atlantic City Showcase: NY Empire 2023

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This team is filled with unselfish talent, a team that works together out on the floor. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class=" wp-image-449541 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/06/DSC-0211-crop-1455x955-1655926167-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="294" height="193" />[player_tooltip player_id="435913" first="Madison" last="Roman"] ’23 | 6’0" | PF</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Roman was one of my favorite players from the Atlantic City Showcase. She is a very strong dominant power forward that plays with a lot of confidence. She is a big that can dribble while never hesitating or second guessing herself. Roman also uses her body to make strong powerful moves to the basketball leaving her defender behind her. She is a true leader when out on the court directing her team and leading them to a win!</span> <img class="size-medium wp-image-449539 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/06/DSC-0220-crop-1537x1010-1655926101-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="197" /> <span style="font-weight: 400;">[player_tooltip player_id="413586" first="Lindsay" last="Jennings"] ’23 | 5’8" | SF </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennings is a very fast guard that is great at moving her feet on both ends of the floor. She is really good at changing speed while on offense trying to get by defenders which made her a huge offensive threat. Jennings is also really good at reacting quickly while defending guards making her a smart, effective and overall threat. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-449543 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/06/DSC_0441-scaled-crop-1616x1061-1655926327-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="197" />[player_tooltip player_id="413585" first="Karly" last="Fischer"] ’23 | 6’2" | PF</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I personally love Fischer’s style of play. As I mentioned before this team is filled with unselfish talented players and I believe is the heart of it all. Effort is never a problem with her, she goes hard every play trying to get open, helping her teammates get in a position to succeed and fighting hard to box out and get rebounds or second chance opportunities. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class=" wp-image-449550 alignleft" src="https://prephoops-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/pgh/uploads/2022/06/DSC_0449-scaled-crop-1616x1061-1655926499-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="186" />10 - [player_tooltip player_id="413593" first="Ava" last="Sollenne"] ’23 | 5’6" | SG</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I have written about Sollenne before in a previous article but you just can’t leave her out when talking about this Empire team. After all she is the leader, the playmaker and overall the girl that keeps this team running smoothly every game. While I didn’t learn anything new about Sollenne while watching her play in Atlantic City, she made it clear she always comes out ready to play every game.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">[player_tooltip player_id="413589" first="Cat" last="Carrafiello"] ’23 | 5’8" | SG | #13</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Carrafiello is the shooter on this team or at least she was in Atlantic City. She proved she is a consistent, reliable shooter that can be trusted to make big time shots. She is a very strong offensive threat overall. I love that she is always cutting to keep the defense moving and to help the offense not stay still and be in one spot. This helps the ball move around which will eventually lead to the defense falling apart for one of her teammates to be open. </span>