Not any additional details other than noting her great contributions as a Buff, but there is now a short Daily Camera blog story (by Brian Howell) on Ms. Hooks leaving the Buffs-
http://www.buffzone.com/buffzone-blogs/ci_29362475/hooks-leaves-cu-soccer-team .
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Hooks, who has led the Buffs in scoring the past two seasons, would have been a senior for the Buffs this fall.
Despite playing just three seasons in Boulder, she leaves CU ranking fifth on the program's career chart for points (56), tied for fifth in assists (14) and sixth in goals (21). She's also fifth with nine career game-winning goals and sixth with 83 shots on goal.
Hooks was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team in 2013 and earned All-Pac-12 second team honors in 2014.
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Best wishes to her at Seattle Univ..
Assume she will have to be missed significantly, although as MarkW noted in the transfer thread (
http://www.allbuffs.com/threads/oly...ng-and-outgoing-and-other-roster-news.105930/, starting at post #21) where Ms. Hooks' leaving was 1st discussed, there appeared to be a general lack of cohesion offensively with the Buffs this year, as shown statistically in the overall goals scored this past season (24) being down significantly from 2013 and 2014 (33 both years). (If I had to guess (admittedly not having
any technical soccer knowledge or experience playing), I'd say that lack of cohesion was much more likely caused by the Buff's playing a lot of freshmen players and a transfer at forward and in the midfield this past season, compared to prior years, as opposed to any decrease in Ms. Hooks' level of play.)
Overall, hopefully we'll be able to look back at this past season as just a rebuilding year and short break with a new streak of consecutive NCAA tournament appearances starting next season.