{"id":381277,"date":"2024-04-02T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=381277"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:01:49","slug":"maddy-mcdaniel-talks-special-relationship-with-south-carolinas-dawn-staley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=381277","title":{"rendered":"Maddy McDaniel talks special relationship with South Carolina&#039;s Dawn Staley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though South Carolina got involved late in her recruitment, Maddy McDaniel forged a strong relationship with head coach Dawn Staley. It is a relationship that impressed the McDonald&#8217;s All-American.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel, a guard from Bishop McNamara High School (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), spoke ahead of Tuesday night&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s All-American Game. She is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/high-school\/girls-basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/244060\">five-star prospect per ESPN<\/a> and is part of a stellar recruiting class pulled in by Staley.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina will face North Carolina State on Friday night in the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday&#8217;s press conference for the McDonald&#8217;s All-American Game, McDaniel was asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/\">USA TODAY High School Sports<\/a> about her relationship with Staley.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Such a great person like surprisingly, they were one of the later schools to come on in my recruitment,&#8221; McDaniel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I felt like there was just like with our relationship she&#8217;s just so down to earth you wouldn&#8217;t think that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The girls game will take place on Tuesday night, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on ESPN2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South Carolina commit Maddy McDaniel breaks down her relationship with head coach Dawn Staley.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381278,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381277\/revisions\/381278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}