{"id":189895,"date":"2025-08-31T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189895\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:09:11","slug":"azzi-fudd-tips-her-hat-to-uclas-recruiting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189895\/","title":{"rendered":"Azzi Fudd tips her hat to UCLA&#8217;s recruiting process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">While she prepares for her final season at UConn, star guard<strong> Azzi Fudd<\/strong> shares details of her recruitment process and how different programs tried to lure her. Fudd comes off a national championship season in Paige Bueckers\u2019 final campaign with the Huskies, and now she\u2019ll be the leader of the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Prior to her commitment to Connecticut, <strong>Fudd visited different campuses<\/strong>, where she was welcomed with open arms, as several top schools wanted to secure her services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">The senior guard had a different approach when it came to visits, as she went to different schools while on road trips to know <strong>how things worked at those places when they weren\u2019t prepared to receive her.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Fudd\u2019s family used to drive with her to AAU tournaments<strong>,<\/strong> which allowed them to check some of the places that showed interest in her. One of them was <strong>UCLA, <\/strong>which left a good impression on Fudd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BUS_20250831_BUS_482650_Azzi-Fudd-1024x576_09272617.webp&#038;width=1024&#038;height=576.webp\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Azzi Fudd in 2025\" class=\"h-auto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center mt-5 text-[14px] leading-[20px] font-normal\">Azzi Fudd #35 of the UConn Huskies looks on in the fourth quarter against the South Carolina Gamecocks in the National Championship of the NCAA Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament on April 06, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Azzi Fudd praises UCLA while remembering visit to campus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">During Friday\u2019s edition of her \u201cFudd Around and Find Out\u201d podcast, the Arlington, Virginia native recalled that she <strong>was impressed by the way UCLA tried to recruit her.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">\u201cWhen I went to UCLA, someone actually stopped me on a golf cart, showed me a magazine with my picture in it and said, \u2018Are you Fudd?\u2019\u201d Fudd said<strong>. \u201cUCLA needs props, because their recruiting was top-notch. They were really creative with what they would send and do.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">She added that her family made sure to drive her to different schools, even the ones that weren\u2019t interested in her services. She credited that approach<strong> in helping her decide on her college team.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"break-word\">Fudd joined the Huskies ahead of the 2021-22 season, and has played 76 games in the last four seasons, averaging 13.3 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 1.2 steals per game. <strong>She just won a championship and is eager to repeat before going to the WNBA.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While she prepares for her final season at UConn, star guard Azzi Fudd shares details of her recruitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,23320,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-189895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uconn","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115124958949122549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}