The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women's basketball team has added some more local talent.  The Canada West club already had Kelsie Baker of Kamloops in their lineup, and recently signed Valleyview Vikes guard Brianna Pound.  Now, they have added a former Salmon Arm Jewel.

5-7 guard Lyndsay Rabbitt has decided to try her luck in University ball after playing her first post secondary season with the Mount Royal Cougars of the Alberta College Athletic Conference.

"I'm so excited to be playing close to home," says Rabbitt, who played 25 games with Mount Royal in 2007-08.  "It was a lot more competitive than high school." She added referring to her season with the Cougars where she was good on 27 of 69 field goal attempts and had a rebounding average of 1.56 per game.  "People wanted to be there, it was a lot different than high school."

Mount Royal is coached by former TRU Assistant Joe Envoldson: '"Lyndsay was a very instrumental part of our team last year and is going to have a very bright basketball future."

"We came third in our conference," stated Rabbitt . "I got a fair bit of playing time in the first half of the year. I saw less court time in the second half when some of the veterans came back from injury."

 "Lyndsay is a physically tough guard with great open court vision. She'll be able to push the ball in transition and find our open forwards sprinting the floor," exclaimed WolfPack Head Coach Scott Reeves, who coached Rabbitt three years ago with the BC Under 16 Select team. "She can shoot the three and that will help us spread the floor and be able to attack inside."

"I definitely don't expect to play a lot initially," says Rabbitt.  "But I'm sure Im going to get a few minutes per game. It's going to be a pretty big jump from college to university and I'm taking that into consideration. I will have to work a bit on my defense."

Rabbitt plans to take Marketing Management at TRU. In the meantime, she's happy to be able to continue her basketball career and doing it close to home. "I'm very close with my family and having my mom being able to come to my games again means a lot," she added.