Victoria Vivians, who played for Mississippi State from 2014-2018, returns to Starkville as part of Sam Purcell’s coaching staff.
The queen of Mississippi High School basketball brought all of those talents to Starkville back in 2014 and the program was never the same again. Vivians was at the forefront of a major shift in women’s basketball at MSU but also at the beginning of a revolution that changed the sport.
Former Bulldog head coach Vic Schaefer and his staff virtually lived at Scott Central High School after they arrived in town. The coach knew that he could have someone special a couple of hours down the road and she was a piece that could help turn the tide for Schaefer’s program early in his career.
Sam Purcell was one of the dozens of coaches that came after Vivians in the middle of her historic high school career. It’s one recruitment that the coach jokingly holds his head down thinking about to this day.
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