Dawn Staley works to bring former Players home from Israel
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Dawn Staley has revealed that three former South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball players are currently in Israel as military tensions escalate following strikes involving Iran.
The South Carolina head coach shared on social media that Tiffany Mitchell, Mikiah Herbert Harrigan, and Destiny Littleton are in the region and that efforts are underway to bring them home safely.
“We are working a plan to get home. Let us pray for our loved ones to return home safely asap,” Staley wrote.
Littleton later shared videos from Jerusalem showing emergency sirens in the background as she explained that she had moved to a shelter.
“I’m just trying to stay calm. I really don’t want to even be out here on the streets,” she said.
She later confirmed she was safe but shaken by the situation.
“I am...