The University of Louisville guard has spent the offseason in Paris while preparing for her fourth, and likely final, collegiate season with an eye on next year’s WNBA draft
At this point, it’s tough for University of Louisville guard Jayda Curry to remember a time when she wasn’t playing basketball. The way she remembers it, her dad Gary put the ball in her hand at four – and she just never put it down.
Gary recalls things a little differently. For starters, Jayda and her sister Layla, who are a year and a half apart, were playing golf before they ever touched a basketball. One day Jayda saw former NFL linebacker Terrell Owens on TV and decided that’s who she wanted to be and she started asking her dad to throw a football with her. “She would wave her arms and set up and do exactly what she saw Owens do,” he explained. “I would throw her the ball, and she would run to the door, slam it, and then go down and run and jump into my arms.”
