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When Megan Walker thinks of her next school, the first word that comes to mind is championships.The No. 1 prospect in the nation for three years running announced Thursday that she is signing a national letter of intent to Connecticut, the national champion for four years running.Its a winning program, she said. Ill be able to accomplish all my dreams.A 6-foot-1 shooting guard, Walker has collected trophies and broken records all over the globe during her time in high school. Shes the reigning Gatorade player of the year in Virginia. She is a two-time state champion at Monacan (Richmond, Virginia). She is the USA Basketball national 3x3 champion. And she won a gold medal with USA Basketball at the FIBA Americas U18 championship.Expect her to make an immediate mark at the college level, too. Walker has that special knack for making good things happen when shes on the court. It helps, of course, that she has a feathery touch on her jump shot, a reliable delivery off the dribble and the ability to find a teammate in a jam. She has the skill to sink jumpers from beyond the arc and the size to post up her defender.Megan Walker is one of the most physically gifted basketball players Ive ever seen, Monacan coach Larry Starr said. Once she started being ranked so high, she did not get complacent but continued to work hard to maintain that ranking. Its important to Megan to show people she isnt satisfied where she is, but she always strives for improvement.Walker chose Connecticut over Notre Dame and Texas.The decision didnt come easily. Walker said a lot of factors led her to Storrs -- the campus (she has already visited a handful of times), the players (shes especially excited to play alongside Kia Nurse and Gabby Williams), the coaches and the pipeline to success after college. Walker, who plans to major in either business or criminology, said shes excited to play for Geno Auriemma.He develops the best players, said Walker, who averaged 21.4 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.1 steals and 1.9 assists as a junior at Monacan. Im hoping to learn a lot from him.Walker joins a class at Connecticut that includes three other top-40 recruits: Mikayla Coombs, a 5-10 guard ranked 14th in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100; Lexi Gordon, a 5-11 wing ranked 29th; and Andra Espinoza-Hunter, a 5-10 wing ranked 37th.With the addition of Walker, the UConn class is expected to be ranked No. 1 when the final class rankings are released next week. The Huskies class was ranked third -- behind Louisville and Stanford -- coming into the early signing period.It would be the first time since 2012 that the No. 1 class resides in Connecticut. That 2012 group featured a few names you may be familiar with: Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck.Walker is the fourth No. 1 prospect in the past seven years to choose UConn. She joins Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (2011), Stewart (2012) and Katie Lou Samuelson (2015). Walker will be greeted by an elite group of backcourt players when she arrives in Storrs. UConn is expected to feature Samuelson, Nurse, Williams and Crystal Dangerfield on the perimeter when Walker arrives next fall.Were just excited about what the possibilities are for her, said dad Keith Walker. Megan hopes to carry on the winning tradition.Its been a long process. Weve enjoyed it. Now its time now to move on to the next chapter.But first, Megan Walker has her heart set on winning another state title at Monacan.Were two-time state champs, she said. Were trying to make that three-time state champs.It all goes back to the championships.swell Bouteille Isotherme .Y. - Detroit goaltender Jonas Gustavsson has earned NHL first star of the week honours after winning in his first three appearances of the season. swell Bouteille France .B. -- The Baie-Comeau Drakkar took over sole possession of first place atop the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League on Thursday with their sixth straight win. http://www.swellbouteille.fr/bouteille-s-well-marbre-france.html . Nigeria beat surprise package Ethiopia 2-0 in the second leg of their playoff for a comfortable 4-1 aggregate victory. Victor Moses converted a 20th-minute penalty after an Ethiopian handball, and Victor Obinna made certain of Nigerias place in Brazil with his powerful free kick in the 82nd at UJ Esuene Stadium. swell Gourde .In my heart and mind Im competing for India, luge competitor Shiva Keshavan told The Associated Press in an email interview. Every day Im flooded with messages from Indians all over the world telling me they are supporting me. Bouteille swell La Baie . MORITZ, Switzerland -- Fog prevented downhill racers from getting their Olympic dress rehearsal.The Indiana Fever have a chance to close out the first half of the regular season with wins over the first-place teams in the Western and Eastern Conferences when they face the New York Liberty on Thursday in New York.Tamika Catchings had a vintage performance in the Fevers big win over the Los Angeles Sparks, who are in first place in the Western Conference and own the best record in the WNBA. Catchings scored 23 points in the Fevers 92-82 win over the Sparks on Tuesday.We really buckled down, Catchings told reporters after the win. Defensively, that is where it starts for us. When we play really good on the defensive end, we finish it off with a rebound and were able to get out in transition, we look like a great team. The Fever (11-12) have won four of five games, but have their hands full with the first-place Liberty. New York got 69 points from its bench in an 88-80 win over the Washington Mystics on Tuesday. The 69 points off the bench were a WNBA recordThe Liberty (18-7) have won six of seven and have beaten Indiana twice this season.dddddddddddd Star forward Tina Charles, who is having an MVP-caliber season for the Liberty, had 26 points and 15 rebounds in a 78-75 overtime win against the Fever on June 19. New York also blew out the Fever 91-59 on June 3.Indiana believes it has improved since those losses.When we play like this, Catchings said after the win over Los Angeles, there are very few teams that can beat us when were playing at our best. Charles is second in the WNBA in scoring (21.2 points) and rebounding (9.5 rebounds). Sugar Rodgers is second on the Liberty in scoring, averaging 15.3 points per game.Catchings, who has announced that this will be her last season in the WNBA, leads the Fever in scoring, at 13.9 points per game. Tiffany Mitchell is averaging 10.7 points per game.The two Eastern Conference rivals met in the playoffs last season, with Indiana winning the series 2-1. ' ' '