Sister duo looking to impact Cougars basketball team

Not since 2018 person the University of Regina Cougars had a sister duo playing for the team.

Back past it was Kyia and Kyanna Giles tearing up the tribunal connected the Cougars’ mode to a nationalist bronze medal.

Fast guardant six years and Cougars caput manager Dave Taylor present has different talented sibling brace astatine his disposal.

Ironically, Kyu and Izzi Fust, similar the Giles sisters, are from Winnipeg.

“Well the large happening is talent, they’re some incredibly talented. Kyu was the subordinate of the twelvemonth successful Manitoba her Grade 12 twelvemonth and past Izzi was past year, truthful evidently if you tin get the subordinate of the year, it often helps a lot,” said Taylor.

Kyu is the elder of the 2 sisters but lone by 1 year.

In her rookie play with the Cougars past year, she had a large seasoned mentor successful Cara Misskey, who besides came to the squad from extracurricular Regina. Misskey hails from Warman, Sask.

Still, the older Fust says she missed playing with her younger sister, arsenic the 2 played unneurotic astatine Dakota Collegiate anterior to post-secondary basketball.

“It’s truly nice, it’s conscionable comfortableness and similar a portion of location connected the court, and past twelvemonth that was missing for maine and I deliberation it’s conscionable truly bully and truly adjuvant for maine to person her here,” said Kyu.

With however adjacent the Fust sisters are, galore thought erstwhile Kyu committed past twelvemonth that Izzi would automatically travel suit, but that was not the case.

Izzi had nary shortage of suitors astir the state trying to sway her to travel to their school.

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In the end, Regina won out, and portion Kyu had a large manus successful the eventual decision, Izzi besides said she wanted to get retired of Manitoba, portion being adjacent capable to location to marque visits.

“Last year, Regina had a beauteous bully season, they had a unsmooth extremity to it, but they had a beauteous bully grounds for the bulk of the season, and I knew that was thing that I wanted to beryllium a portion of. I’ve looked up to my sister my full life, truthful seeing her turn connected this squad and develop, I knew that was thing I wanted to do, ” said Izzi.

Taylor is excited to get the sisters retired connected the tribunal unneurotic this season.

“They’re precise antithetic players. Kyu’s going to truly assistance america connected the antiaircraft end, that’s benignant of the agelong word happening wherever she tin beryllium a shutdown defender for us, evidently inactive score… whereas Izzi I deliberation tin assistance america much connected the violative end,” helium said.