Hard work in the gym gets Sumar some media love as she gets set to start her pro career.
Special thanks to the Daily Comet and the Houma Courier for giving Sumar some love as she prepares for the start of her professional career.
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PER DAILY COMET | KATIE TERHUNE
Kathy Luke knew that Sumar Leslie had talent the first time she watched the sixth-grader playing basketball with her brother in Vanderbilt Catholic’s gym.
“She looked like Urkel. She had these big old glasses,” Luke, the Lady Terriers head basketball coach, said. “You wouldn’t have thought much about her, but then you saw her handle a basketball and saw what she could do, and it was incredible.”
Luke’s early intuition about Leslie turned out to be right and 10 years later, the Nicholls State graduate and all-conference basketball player has signed with Connecticut-based sports agency Macklin & Lovett Associates with plans to play professional ball overseas starting in late August.
Leslie said she has several options on where to go, but hesitated to name them until she had reached a decision.
Leslie said she hopes to excel overseas and eventually return to play professionally in the United States.
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