As a 17-year-old competing as an amateur in the Israeli Women Basketball Premier League, Lior Garzon offered a glimpse of the collegiate star to come. The CU graduate student, who transferred to Boulder after two years apiece at Villanova and Oklahoma State, played that winter for Maccabi Ra’anana. She averaged double-digit scoring and was named the league’s rookie of the year, a performance that followed Garzon leading Israel to the bronze medal in the FIBA U18 Women’s European Championship. “Once she had a few games in that professional league with double-digit points, playing next to top-level players, and she was already dominant, I already understood then that she was a special talent,” recalled her national team coach, Roie Levin. “Her rebounding, her size, her shooting ability separated her.