By ROBERT CESSNATexas A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair is playing a lot of golf these days, but he's scoring better off the greens.
Blair picked up his second pledge in the Class of 2011 from Colleyville Heritage's Alexia Standish, who made her pledge during an unofficial visit Wednesday.
"We all liked the coaching staff," said her father, Mike Standish.
The 5-foot-7 point guard averaged 17 points, 4.2 assists and 2.6 steals per game during her sophomore season. She led Heritage to the District 5-5A title, earning co-MVP honors. She also was the league's newcomer of the year as a freshman.
She was one of 34 invitees who made the 12-member USA Women's Under-16 National Basketball Team. Tryouts were last month at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The team will play in the FIBA Americas Championship in August in Mexico City. A top-three finish there would send the team to the Under-17 World Championships in July 2010 in France.
"She is just 5-7 but plays the game as if size doesn't matter," said HoopGurlz's Chris Hansen. "She has a great first step and is very good about driving her body into the defender's hip. She keeps her body compact on her dribble attacks and is always ready to exploit a mistake by the defense. Standish is a cold-blooded shooter."
Standish also visited Oklahoma three times and Texas Tech twice. Her father said almost every Big 12 school had offered his daughter a scholarship.
"I'm going to have to work a lot on my defense because [the Aggies] are a defensive-minded team," Standish told ESPN.com.
The five-star recruit according to Rivals.com joins 6-foot-6 center Rachel Mitchell of Humble Atscocita, who orally committed to A&M last month for 2011.
Blair, by NCAA rules, can't comment on recruits and nonbinding oral pledges.
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