E used to afraid.

Used to be out in no way.

She's a shooter.

She's a score.

She's the best player in the country.

Ese Fun is the best high school player the women's game has seen in years.

More acclaimed than Asia.

Wilson, Elena Della Donne and even Page Becker's.

She was a bucket, automatic bucket.

She could score all three levels.

Skills speaks for itself.

The first sophomore to win Gatorade National Player of the year.

But at the peak of recruitment, what a future this young lady has in front of her.

All of those expectations were suddenly in peril.

123 I did really worry.

Would I be able to make it back to that level?

Would I be the same player is just hard to see your kids go through that I'm Katie Barnes.

And this his ESPN cover story.

Yes, for a generational talent ese funds game hardly came immediately or naturally, but I just wasn't any good at it.

My mom had to force me to play.

I thought she sucked.

First time she caught the ball.

She turned and just held it out.

The girl just took it, went the other way, and she was like, Oh, before you can really get to know easy food.

You have to know Her mom, Katie Katie, started Georgetown and was drafted into the W.

N.

B.

A in 2001, but was cut prior to the season.

Two years later, with Easy by her side, she was training for a comeback.

I went up for a rebound, and as soon as I landed a guy's knee went right into the side of my leg and it just like I mean, just like exploded.

There goes my career So Katie began training, ese, and over time, you know it's your right foot.

The work was paying off.

Step back, Dump shot girl, You got an answer for that.

I know she came in and dominated the league right off the top.

She's just better basketball on everybody else.

As a freshman at ST John's College High School, A C average 24 points per game and as a sophomore became the youngest to win Gatorade's national player of the year, besting Yukon commit Page Becker's everyone will know her name she's gonna make a big mark on the next level in college as the number one recruit in the country ese was selected to compete at Use a basketball's U 18 3 on three national championships.

April 13th 2019.

How are you feeling that day?

I remember the person guarding me was really physical.

Three to ese drove to the right and she was going hop to power.

I jumped two jumps up.

All I kept saying was like Oh, my God, Oh my God, Oh my God!

A soon as she landed, I knew I knew what it waas look in her eyes, the fear in her eyes of what just happened, then said everything on Emery would confirm Ese had torn her right.

A CEO and M C.

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A surgical procedure would take a graft from her left knee to repair the injury and her right knee.

I never had a big injury before, so knowing that I wouldn't be able to play also seeing the pain in my mom's eyes because she's been through it, E could see like it just hurt her, seeing that I had to go through it, too.

Did you?

I did really worry about what I be ableto be as good as I was before I was her.

Yeah, there's so much pain and there's so much work and grinding that just like you find out who you are as a person, you find out what you're willing to dio.

She had me on a schedule.

Wake up, do my exercises, lay on the bed.

I used to do some exercises.

I had to teach myself everything that she came up to me one day and whispered in my ear, How will I know when I'm ready to play on?

I said, You'll just know And she said, I'm ready to play.

My heart was beating really fast when my coach said my name was like easy and I'm like Oh my gosh, I'm really going in the game, Really go in the game.

Fun measuring dribbles on buries the three Oh my goodness.

So deadly.

Despite a pandemic, Hansel games and close rehab facilities ese remain the number one recruit in the country.

And on november 11th, 2020 I will be attending next four years.

The University of Connecticut Ese Fud, the top women's basketball prospect in the class of 2021 announced this morning that she's gonna be attending UConn.

I'm happy for her.

She's super talented, and she's also a comeback queen.

You cons getting all everything basketball player.

She wants to be the best, and she shows that everything that she does until her every day.

I'm proud of her.

I wanna achieve her dream that she didn't get to achieve and do the things that she couldn't dio e can't wait to see what I can accomplish in college.