Kinkaid Super 6 Freshman Setting The Stage

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I have been covering Texas basketball for quite some time, in fact, longer than most of the players in this article have been living however I knew both <strong>[player_tooltip player_id='846243' first='Kamdyn' last='Flora']</strong> and <strong>[player_tooltip player_id='846231' first='Sydney' last='Marshall']'s</strong> parents before they were born so maybe I'll add an asterisk as they, along with<strong> [player_tooltip player_id='846238' first='Lauren' last='Hull']</strong>, are on the 2027 Watchlist, but with 6 next level players, one team that was dominant early in the century comes to mind and that was Madison. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Marlins went undefeated in the district for 10 years and their Fab 4 of <strong>Alaina Lee (Murray State) Tiffany Bogany (Alabama A&amp;M) Patrice Reado (Texas A&amp;M) and Alicia McDaniel (Louisiana Lafayette) </strong>were very special off the top and this group is already showing signs<mark class="has-inline-color has-primary-color"> <strong><em><a href="https://girlzprepreport.blogspot.com/2014/11/fab-4-friday-starts-now-and-cougars.html">so travel back in time to a decade ago </a></em></strong></mark>when I wrote about what they had done, a decade before that </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kinkaid is coming off a big win against<strong><em><mark class="has-inline-color has-primary-color"><a href="https://tabchoops.org/private-school-girls-rankings/"> TABC Private School #4 Episcopal </a></mark></em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["846243"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"Flora is one of those players that can get hers u0022in the flowu0022 or go on an offensive rampage and score in droves. 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