Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico-Edward Waters women's basketball's most decorated player in modern era history now takes her talents to the professional ranks as former student-athlete and all-time leading scorer/rebounder Laquanza Glover has signed with the Barreteras de Zacatecas Basketball Club of the new La Liga ABC MEX league.

Glover becomes the first EWU women's basketball player to play professional basketball since 2008, when former Lady Tiger standout Antoinette Upshaw made a brief appearance for the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA.

Glover made her first appearance for her new team last week in an 88-84 road victory over Bujías de Aguascalientes. 

La Liga ABC MEX is in the middle of their inaugural season of play this season and is a developmental branch of Liga Mexicana de Baloncesto Profesional Femenil (LMBPF), the top flight of professional basketball in Mexico. La Liga ABC MEX has ten teams that compete and athletes in the league use this to be promoted to LMBPF.

Coming to Edward Waters after a stellar career at Jean Ribault Senior High School where she was a member of the 2017 FHSAA State Championship and Dick's Sporting Goods High School National Championship team in her senior year, Glover then began her storied career for her hometown HBCU.
 
Appearing in 125 games over her five-year career at Edward Waters, Glover earned several superlatives, including: the 2017-18 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, 2019 Second Team All-GCAC, 2020 First Team All-GCAC, 2020 GCAC All-Tournament Team, 2021 First Team All-GCAC, 2021 GCAC All-Defensive Team, 2021 GCAC All-Tournament Team, Multiple GCAC Player of the Week Honors and the 2021 Black College Sports Network National Women's Basketball Player of the Year.
 
Glover helped lead the Lady Tigers to their first two appearances in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championship Game and the program's first GCAC Regular Season Championship in 2020-21.
 
Glover finished her career averaging a double-double averaging 13.61 points per contest and 10.38 rebounds per contest, to go along with 3.02 assists per game. Glover concluded her career on the hardwood last season by becoming the new EWU women's basketball all-time leader in scoring with 1,726 points, rebounds with 1,334, and career double-doubles with 66.

Following her standout career on the basketball floor, Glover received the ultimate honor as she became the first Edward Waters student-athlete, male or female, to have her jersey retired.

Glover also received both her bachelors degree in 2020 and her master's degree in 2022, becoming one of the first student-athletes at Edward Waters to achieve the title of "Double Tiger".

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