Women’s basketball: Gophers lose Aminita Zie to season-ending leg injury
Already without freshman wing Niamaya Holloway, the Gophers women’s basketball team announced Thursday that post player Aminita Zie will miss this season after having surgery to repair a leg injury.
Zie, a 6-foot-1 post who transferred last spring from Western Nebraska Community College, was injured last week, the team said in a release. The Gophers are scheduled to play an exhibition game against Wisconsin-River Falls on Sunday at Williams Arena. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
“Unfortunately Aminata suffered a leg injury last week, and we were saddened to learn later that it is season ending,” coach Lindsay Whalen said in a statement. “We’re obviously disappointed for Aminata but our entire team is here to assist and support her every step of the way as she moves forward in this recovery process.”
A redshirt sophomore who started her career at Stony Brook, Zie led the National Junior Athletic Association (NJCAA) in field goal percentage (67.9 percent) in her only season at Western Nebraska, where she averaged 9.2 points and 8.9 rebounds a game and helped the team advanced to the national semifinals.
Holloway, part of a highly ranked recruiting class, was lost to a season-ending knee injury in July.
