Thanks for the EXCELLENT post -  So many things that we (as Americans take for granted) Language/Communications - Food, Culture Norms - can be completely different from what players like Kadri Ann, Julianna, Eniko etc have to go through - Makes their adjustment more remarkable, and their accomplishments even better.

I remember in the week before the U CONN game in the NCAA - Szmoza (after her junior year) said something like "I think U CONN was unbeatable but Kadri Ann (after her FRESHMAN year) convinced me NO ONE is unbeatable Even though the results weren't what we wanted - NEED MORE PLAYERS with that kind of confidence!!!

Great article, Zachary, & as most of the time I'm too lazy to do much posting here, let me say that I do read & enjoy all of your coverage & player profiles.  I echo what Skeptic Al says about the difficulty of adjusting to a new culture for somebody so young & how remarkable it is when they pull it off.  We tend to forget how young the ladies & men who play college sports are, until for instance at the most recent Dukes Dunks & Donuts when I got in line for coffee behind a few of the women's players & saw that they were looking at little cardboard pictures of the Powder Puff Girls & laughing about something, & then I'm reminded that while in some ways they're adults, in other ways they're kids.  They do a much better job with the adjustments & expectations than I would have at their age.