"Year One: Life at ASU" is a periodic photo series following five freshmen navigating their first year at ASU. This installment checks in on Sabrina Haines, a freshman on the Sun Devils women's basketball team, as she and her teammates prepare for a matchup with USC.
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Freshman Sabrina Haines, second from right in the front row, and the rest of the ASU women's basketball team, gets ready to study their upcoming opponent during practice at the Weatherup Center on Feb. 25, 2016. The team was completing its last home practice before playing against USC in Los Angeles, where ASU won 50-45.
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Coach Charli Turner Thorne speaks to the team during practice. The team is currently ranked 10th in the nation, and clinched a regular season co-championship (with Oregon State) of the Pac-12 conference with its victory over USC.
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Freshman Sabrina Haines, number 3, laughs before the start of warm-ups at practice.
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Sabrina Haines and her teammates run sprints during practice.
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Sabrina Haines makes a move to the basket during practice at the Weatherup Center. Haines has averaged 5.3 points a game during her first season as a Sun Devil.
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Freshman forward guard Kianna Ibis plays with Sabrina Haines' curls during practice.
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Sabrina Haines chats with Kianna Ibis during practice, and after Ibis was playing with Haines' hair.
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Sabrina Haines and her teammates do pushups at the close of practice.
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Sabrina Haines wraps up practice with a smile.
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Sabrina Haines heads to the shuttle, carrying her travel meal, before traveling to the airport on Feb. 25, 2016. The team was completing its last home practice before playing against USC in Los Angeles.
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Sabrina Haines sets her bags down for travel before heading to the airport from the Weatherup Center.
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Sabrina Haines shoots the ball during the ASU women's basketball game against USC on Feb. 26. She ended the game with seven points and the team won 50-45.
Photo courtesy of Steve Rodriguez/ASU Athletics
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Though the second game in the team's Los Angeles road trip didn't end as well — losing to UCLA on Feb. 28 — as its first, the ASU women's basketball team returned to the Valley with good news, they finished the regular season tied with Oregon State for the conference championship. The team begins its postseason trek this Thursday, March 3, in the Pac-12 tournament held in Seattle.
Photo courtesy of Steve Rodriguez/ASU Athletics
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