When 17-year-old Sitaya Fagan received an offer to play basketball on a full scholarship at a top university in the US, she was so shocked she didn’t believe it was real. Then, she received 26 more.

To receive 27 offers from the best women’s basketball programs in the US is almost unfathomable and besides Fagan, has never been done by an Australian. Even more remarkable is that of the colleges that ranked in the top five last season, Fagan was offered a spot at four of them.

Sitaya Fagan at the Australian Institute of Sport. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“It was so exciting I didn’t believe it was real,” Fagan said when she received the first offer.

Even though Fagan has been scouted as a generational talent inside Australia’s borders for some time now, she didn’t think she’d pique the

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