Iowa felt like right fit for new 2022 women’s basketball commit Taylor McCabe
By Tyler Devine
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Iowa women’s basketball team received its third verbal commitment in the 2022 recruiting class Monday when Lincoln, Neb., guard Taylor McCabe announced her decision via Twitter.
When it came down to it, McCabe said she felt like she fit better at Iowa than anywhere else.
Extremely excited and blessed to announce my committment to further my education and basketball career at the University of Iowa! Go Hawks!!🖤💛 #FightForIowa pic.twitter.com/AM5bePbE8H
— Taylor McCabe (@_taylormccabe) August 3, 2020
“I know the coaching staff real well,” McCabe said. “They’ve recruited me for a little over a year now. They’re super great people, obviously, really good program. I always knew I would kind of fit there just because they like smaller guards, and in my class they really needed somebody like me.
“I think what really sped up the decision was once there was only one spot left and I knew I wanted it, so I went ahead and took it.”
McCabe chose Iowa over scholarship offers from Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas State, Creighton and Drake, among others.
The 5-foot-9 McCabe joins Johnston native Jada Gyamfi, who committed to Iowa on July 21, and Cedar Rapids native Hannah Stuelke in the class.
All three play together on the All-Iowa Attack AAU team, along with 2021 Iowa commit Sydney Affolter.
McCabe has had the opportunity to visit Iowa City multiple times and was blown away by the fan support that head coach Lisa Bluder and her team get.
“Their fan base is incredible,” McCabe said. “For girl’s basketball the numbers they get are insane, it’s about 8,000 for a game. That’s amazing. So, I thought that was really cool. I’m a Midwest girl, it’s a Midwest town. I really like the feel of it, so it was really nice.”
Though she is labeled a shooter, McCabe said she doesn’t necessarily want to fit into one certain mold.
“I’ve been told that (I’m a shooter) my whole life by coaches we’ve been playing against or my own coaches,” McCabe said. “But I can do more than that as well. I try to be as versatile as possible and I like to call myself more of a combo guard. And then I really started to take pride in my defense, too. That was something I knew I wanted to get better at this summer and I think I definitely did.”