Siena women’s basketball transfer Isis Young is an extremely rare player.
She’s entering her seventh year of college because of two right knee surgeries. She’s already played at two power-conference schools. She’s the program’s first graduate transfer.
On top of all that, Young interviewed Saints head coach Ali Jaques as a sideline reporter last season.
Now Young will play her final season for Jaques. The Saints announced her arrival on Wednesday.
“I just want to finish my career on my own terms,” she said. “And I know that I can’t control everything. I think I’ve done a really good job of rehabbing my knee. I’ve picked a great place to go that I can really just have fun, enjoy the year and win some games.”
She played at Florida and Syracuse before sitting out last year at Fordham because of her knee. She’ll require a waiver to play at Siena, but is confident it will happen because she’d already gotten the waiver for a sixth year at Fordham before needing an ACL repair.
“Now the paperwork just needs to be submitted for Siena, which I’m sure won’t be at all an issue,’’ Young said. “They approved me at Fordham, so I’m full ahead of steam that way.”
Young, a 5-foot-7 guard, has been around long enough that Jaques, who just completed her eighth year at Siena, began recruiting her when Jaques was still a Northwestern assistant.
In the meantime, Young has gotten two degrees in media and plans a career in sports broadcasting. While sitting out at Fordham, she did some sideline reporting and worked a Siena-Manhattan game in Riverdale that was live-streamed on ESPN-Plus.
“Siena ended up winning, so I did a postgame interview with (Jaques) and asked some questions and talked to her a little bit before the game about the team,” Young said. “Talked to her at halftime as I was getting some halftime reports down.”
They got reacquainted when Young was looking for a new school.
“I remember the first thing (Jaques) said on the phone was, ‘I know you from postgame, so now I’m recruiting you. I couldn’t believe that you’re deciding to play again after interviewing me and asking such great questions, but I’m glad,’” Young recalled. “So it’s some kind of full circle, which I think will be the case when I finish playing basketball and get into broadcasting.”
She said her knee feels strong. Jaques feels she still has plenty of basketball left.
Young, from Berlin, N.J., was ranked the No. 59 player in the Class of 2014 by espnW, though she tore her ACL and sat out her freshman year at Florida. She averaged 1.9 points per game for the Gators before moving on to Syracuse, where she averaged 4.7 points over 58 games.
“She’s a combo guard,” Jaques said. “She can shoot the 3. She can handle it. Early in her career, she could get to the basket, really explosive and athletic. But I think she’s really developed her 3-point range throughout her college career. She’s a talented guard who plays multiple positions.”
She never visited the Siena campus during the coronavirus pandemic, but took a virtual tour. She also has a grandfather who lived in Albany and spoke highly of the area.
“At this point, I’ve been so many places, I know I can adapt to anywhere,” Young said.
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