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Diggins in next year's backcourt. As a high school senior at Niles West, Loyd averaged 26.9 points and 12.0 rebounds per game. She also was named MVP at the WBCA All-America Game by compiling 18 points, eight rebounds and three assists while leading her team to a 74-62 victory. Name (National Rank) Hannah Huffman (52) Jewell Loyd (4) Michaela Mabrey (33) Name (National Rank) Lindsay Allen (21) Kristina Nelson (33) Taya Reimer (4) Diamond Thompson 2013 COMMITMENTS 6-3 Cw 6-4 6-2 Pos. Ht. Hometown (High School) G 5-9 G 5-9 G 5-9 2012 SIGNEES Pos. Ht. Hometown (High School) PG 5-8 C F of Michaela Mabrey, who competed in the USA Women's U-18 National Team Trials in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. A McDonald's All-American and Gatorade Her presence overshadows the enrollment Concord, Calif. (Cardonelet) Skokie, Ill. (Niles West) Holmdel, N.J. (Manasquan) Mitchellville, Md. (St. John's [D.C.]) Buford, Ga. (Buford) Indianapolis (Hamilton Southeastern) Lombard, Ill. (Montini Catholic) All-Time Irish Scoring Leader Returns Home women's hoops were Beth Morgan and Katryna Gaither, who led the Irish to the first of their four Final Fours (1997) under head coach Muffet McGraw. This April 30, the former Morgan and now Beth Cunningham was hired as Notre Dame's associate head coach by McGraw to replace Jonathan Tsipis, the new head coach at George Washington University. The two-time All-American guard is still the all-time Irish scoring leader (2,322 Before Skylar Diggins, before Ruth Riley, the original superstars of Notre Dame points) — although Diggins (1,726) will have an opportunity to eclipse her standard next season. (Gaither is No. 2 with 2,126.) Cunningham returns to her alma mater following 11 seasons at Virginia Common- wealth University, the past nine as head coach. She is the Rams' all-time leader in women's basketball coaching wins (167-115), highlighted by the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament berth in 2009 and back-to-back school-record 26-win seasons in 2007-08 and 2008-09. Cunningham graduated from Notre Dame in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in mar- keting from the top-ranked Mendoza College of Business. She earned her master's degree of education in sports leadership from VCU in 2003. JUNE/JULY 2012 New Jersey High School Player of the Year, Mabrey led Manasquan High to the New Jersey Group III state champion- ship and the New Jersey Tournament of Cham- pions title (all groups/ classes), scoring 26 points in the title game and fin- ishing with 2,123 career points. She averaged 17.0 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 2.8 steals per game as a senior and was ranked as the nation's No. 20 overall prospect by Blue Star Basketball, No. 32 by ESPN HoopGurlz and No. 36 by All-Star Girls Report. Rounding out the corps is Concord, Calif., native Hannah Huffman, whose father, Lon, played base- ball and golf for the Irish before graduating in 1986. Ranked No. 52 over- — Lou Somogyi 94 all by ESPN HoopGurlz, Huffman led Carondelet High to a 112-20 record in her four seasons while playing every game. She averaged 18.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game as a senior. ✦