USD Magazine Summer 2014

TORERO ATHLETICS

Amy Kame’s on-court leadership and consistency propelled the Toreros to another successful season.

Amy K ame l e a v e s a n i n d e l i b l e i mp r i n t o n U S D b a s k e t b a l l [ c e n t e r p i e c e ] BRINGING HER “A” GAME

BROCK SCOTT

by Mike Sauer he basketball left Amy Kame’s fingertips and arced through the air toward the hoop the same way it had done thousands of times before; seams rotating perfectly — just as her brother had taught her — and her shooting hand pointed directly at the target T

no doubt in USD Basketball Head Coach Cindy Fisher’s mind that Kame was the right person for the job. In fact, if she could do it all over again, Fisher would put the ball right back in the hands of her star senior guard without blinking an eye. “It’s been a real pleasure

points, the Toreros looked to their captain to do what she had done so many times before during her prolific career; make a game-changing play when it mattered most. Unfortunately, the ball failed to find its mark at the bottom of the net, but there’s absolutely

on the follow-through. This, however, was no run-of- the-mill practice drill in her family driveway. This was a contested baseline jump-shot with 1.3 sec- onds left in a West Coast Confer- ence (WCC) quarterfinal matchup between USD and longtime rival St. Mary’s. Down by just two

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