It appears Susan Yenser's time at UF has finally arrived.
After sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, the junior guard gave a glimpse of what she can do to help her team this season Monday night.
Yenser played 18 minutes and scored 9 points on 3-of-5 shooting from 3-point range against Jacksonville.
She can continue to be a force off the bench tonight when the Gators (1-1) host Stetson at 5:30 in the first game of a doubleheader with the men's team.
"Basically, I've been waiting a year and a half for that," Yenser said. "I was just waiting for my time to come, my number to be called. When your team needs you, you step up."
Yenser, who transferred from Clemson, had originally committed to play for UF coach Amanda Butler while she was still coaching at UNC Charlotte.
The coach she wanted to play for at Clemson, Jim Davis, resigned just before Yenser arrived, and after two years of playing for the Tigers, she realized there was probably a better fit for her elsewhere.
Six days after she committed to UNC Charlotte to play for Butler, Butler accepted the head job at UF.
The two kept in contact, and Butler eventually asked Yenser to come to UF with her, knowing her new squad needed a shooter and a leader, something Yenser could be.
"She's that kid that we have a ton of confidence in that's always going to do the right thing," Butler said. "It's a very reassuring thought to know you've got a voice in the locker room who is always going to step up and say the right thing when it needs to be said."
Not only does Yenser specialize in 3-point shooting as well as leadership, in high school she wrote and recorded two Christian rap CDs, all done in her basement.
It was her brother, not her, who gave the CDs to her friends to listen to.
"I was kind of secret about it," Yenser said. "I just did it 'cause I liked to do it, and also I like to get the message out there just about Jesus Christ."
While she hasn't had anywhere to record since she's been in college, Yenser said she still likes to write poems and songs.
"It was pretty cool," said Marshae Dotson, Yenser's roommate last year. "I heard it and I'm like, 'That's not her.'"
Now, Yenser's teammates wouldn't mind teaming up in a musical way.
"They're always like, 'Sue, you need to write us a song,'" Yenser said. "Maybe one day, I talked about getting all of us together if we could find somewhere to record, we could make a song that we would come out to (for each game)."
While she's not shooting rap records out as much anymore, look for Yenser to keep shooting the lights out from behind the arc this season.
