Elisa Pinzan’s transfer story spans the Atlantic Ocean and includes leaving her family behind, learning a new language and an unexpected medical scare.
“Abby was like: ‘Hey, you’ve got to go to Noodles & Company. That place is going to change your life,’ ” Pinzan said with a laugh. “I went there once and am eating this food and I’m like: ‘What the! Why did Abby suggest me this?’ So the next day I saw her. . . . I was like: ‘Abby, you know where I’m from? I’m from Italy!’ And she was like, ‘You don’t get it.
The duo have grown close during the school year — watching Netflix and listening to Justin Bieber — as a pair of transfers to a Maryland team that is No. 5 in the Associated Press poll and the No. 3 seed in the Big Ten tournament. The Terrapins will face the winner of 11th-seeded Rutgers and sixth-seeded Illinois in a quarterfinal game Friday.
The first three months, however, were an adventure. She taught herself to speak English without a tutor and with the help of several books. Pinzan’s father gave her Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie’s “Don’t Let the Lipstick Fool You: The Making of a Champion,” but the process was exhausting. It would take an hour to read a single page as she made notes in Italian on the pages. She would watch Netflix with subtitles and write down 20 words a day to help learn the language.
“She’s a really high-IQ type of point guard and just really knows how to run a system,” Frese said. “As we put a lot of new things in this year, she grasps really quickly and understands her role and wants to get everyone involved. When things are super hectic, she can calm us down.“To come over to a different country, a different culture, learn the language, that’s why she has been successful and why she’ll continue to be so successful in the future. She did some really hard things.
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