{"id":7692,"date":"2023-09-27T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/?p=5905294"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:29:38","slug":"donovan-clingan-cooper-flagg-make-touching-tribute-to-their-mothers-during-flaggs-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/donovan-clingan-cooper-flagg-make-touching-tribute-to-their-mothers-during-flaggs-official-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Clingan, Cooper Flagg make touching tribute to their mothers during Flagg\u2019s official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/donovan-clingan\/13276\">Donovan Clingan<\/a>, the UConn men&#8217;s basketball star from Bristol, was tasked with showing the nation&#8217;s No. 1 overall recruit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/250591\/cooper-flagg\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> around campus during his official visit over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The two elite New England basketball players, Flagg from Newport, Maine, have known each other for a while and are close family friends. Their mothers, Kelly Bowman Flagg and the late <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4332941\/2023\/03\/22\/uconn-donovan-clingan-sweet-16\/\">Stacey Porrini Clingan<\/a>, played Division I hoops together at the University of Maine in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey died of breast cancer in March 2018 and is being posthumously being inducted into the UMaine Sports Hall of Fame this year.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg&#8217;s official visit in Storrs provided a unique opportunity for the sons to make a special tribute to their mothers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s customary for recruits to play a game of dress-up in the school&#8217;s uniform for a photoshoot, and Flagg, whose parents joined him on the visit, did. He posed in multiple different UConn uniform combinations, using national championship trophies and the program&#8217;s new, diamond Husky chain as props \u2013 in one picture, Dan Hurley is wearing the chain and Flagg is to his left holding a red lightsaber.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f622.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude22\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UConn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UConn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CooperFlagg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CooperFlagg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X3YadvHSMR\">pic.twitter.com\/X3YadvHSMR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CUE THE MUSIC (@Cue_the_Music) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cue_the_Music\/status\/1706780107988258910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But then the shoot got more sentimental.<\/p>\n<p>Clingan joined the Class of 2024 superstar as they put on their moms&#8217; UMaine uniforms, Flagg wearing No. 11 and Clingan No. 32. They took a number of photos in the Maine threads, including one back-to-back and another holding the Maine state flag.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cxq6xncx9iw\/?img_index=1\">posted seven photos<\/a> from the shoot to his Instagram page captioned: &#8220;Bleed Blue..?&#8221; with a Husky and a blue heart emoji. Former Huskies Andre Jackson, RJ Cole and Tyrese Martin commented on the post as well as Clingan and current Huskies Alex Karaban and Jayden Ross.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stacey was an amazing role model for me during my time at UMaine,&#8221; Bowman Flagg posted as a comment under a Facebook post from the Maine Women&#8217;s Basketball account which shared <a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/story.aspx?filename=legacy-of-commitment-and-perseverance-propel-porrini-into-umaine-sports-hall-of-fame&amp;file_date=9\/26\/2023\">a profile of the soon-to-be Hall of Famer<\/a>. &#8220;She was a great competitor and an awesome teammate. I had the privilege and honor to spend some time with her son, Donovan (National Champion), who has followed in his mom&#8217;s footsteps as a player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This past weekend, Cooper took an official visit at UConn and we were able to do this special photo shoot with both of them wearing their mom&#8217;s jerseys. It was a special moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clingan&#8217;s father, Bill, responded to Bowman Flagg&#8217;s comment on Twitter, saying &#8220;Thank you Kelly&#8230;&#8230;.tears&#8221; and later, after the shoot caught traction on the internet, &#8220;Man I cried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No. 1 player in the country Cooper Flagg took his official visit to UConn over the weekend <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f440.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc40\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f525.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd25\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>What do y\u2019all think? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cooper_Flagg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cooper_Flagg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zDL3tAUJap\">pic.twitter.com\/zDL3tAUJap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Hoops (@brhoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brhoops\/status\/1706789811976286703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stacey was extremely driven, extremely motivated, hardworking. She was an incredibly nice person, an incredibly caring person and people want to be just like her,&#8221; Bill Clingan told The Courant last year, saying Donovan&#8217;s game went to the next level after she passed as he sets out to carry on her legacy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2023\/04\/01\/dont-they-grow-up-fast-the-evolution-of-uconn-freshman-donovan-clingan-has-been-a-pleasure-to-watch\/\">Donovan<\/a> wears the No. 32 at UConn, as he did at Bristol Central High, in her honor.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Porrini led Maine to consecutive conference titles and the program&#8217;s first three NCAA tournament appearances in her final three years of college. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/story.aspx?filename=legacy-of-commitment-and-perseverance-propel-porrini-into-umaine-sports-hall-of-fame&amp;file_date=9\/26\/2023\">the feature story<\/a>, she ranks fifth in UMaine history with 929 rebounds, is 17th on the career scoring list with 1,128 points and averaged 9.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game for her career.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan Clingan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2023\/04\/01\/dont-they-grow-up-fast-the-evolution-of-uconn-freshman-donovan-clingan-has-been-a-pleasure-to-watch\/\">made a significant impact<\/a> as a freshman playing behind Adama Sanogo during UConn&#8217;s national championship season last year. He averaged 6.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in just 13.1 minutes off the bench per game and was named to the Big East All-Freshman team at season&#8217;s end. Clingan, the 7-foot-2 center, is set to be the face of UConn&#8217;s program as a sophomore and is projected as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/insider\/insider\/story\/_\/id\/37905297\/2024-nba-mock-draft-top-prospects-next-year\">Top 10 pick in next year&#8217;s NBA Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg, a 6-foot-8 forward, will reportedly be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagsblog.com\/2023\/09\/09\/five-star-prospect-cooper-flagg-sets-3-official-visits\/\">making official visits<\/a> to Kansas Oct. 6-8 and Duke Oct. 20-22.<\/p>\n\n<h2><b>Commercials Cooperation Advertisements:<\/b><\/h2>\r\n<p><br>(1) IT Teacher IT Freelance<br> <\/p>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress><img src=http:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ITTeacherITFreelance-Website.png alt=IT\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2 java\u88dc\u7fd2 \u70ba\u5927\u5bb6\u914d\u5c0d\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2,IT freelance, \u79c1\u4eba\u8001\u5e2b, PHP\u88dc\u7fd2,CSS\u88dc\u7fd2,XML,Java\u88dc\u7fd2,MySQL\u88dc\u7fd2,graphic design\u88dc\u7fd2,\u4e2d\u5c0f\u5b78ICT\u88dc\u7fd2,\u4e00\u5c0d\u4e00\u79c1\u4eba\u88dc\u7fd2\u548cFreelance\u81ea\u7531\u5de5\u4f5c\u914d\u5c0d\u3002\/><\/a><p><a href=https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/findteacher>\u7acb\u523b\u8a3b\u518a\u53ca\u5831\u540d\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2\u8ab2\u7a0b\u5427! <\/a><br>\r\n\r\n\u7535\u5b50\u8ba1\u7b97\u673a -\u6559\u80b2 -IT \u96fb\u8166\u73ed\u201d ( IT\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2 ) \u63d0\u4f9b\u4e00\u500b\u65b9\u4fbf\u7684\u7535\u5b50\u8ba1\u7b97\u673a \u6559\u80b2\u5e73\u53f0, \u70ba\u5927\u5bb6\u914d\u5c0d\u4fe1\u606f\u6280\u672f, \u96fb\u8166 \u8001\u5e2b, IT freelance \u548c programming expert. \u8b93\u5927\u5bb6\u65b9\u4fbf\u5730\u5c31\u80fd\u627e\u5230\u5408\u9069\u7684\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2, \u96fb\u8166\u73ed, \u5bb6\u6559, \u79c1\u4eba\u8001\u5e2b.  <br>\r\n\r\nWe are a education and information platform which you can find a IT private tutorial teacher or freelance. <br>\r\n\r\nAlso we provide different information about information technology, Computer, programming, mobile, Android, apple, game, movie, anime, animation\u2026 \r\n<\/p>\n<p><br>(2) ITSec<br> <\/p><a href=https:\/\/itsec.vip><img src=http:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ITSec-Main-Promotion-Image.png alt= https:\/\/itsec.vip\/\r\nSecure Your Computers from Cyber Threats and mitigate risks with professional services to defend Hackers.  \r\nITSec provide IT Security and Compliance Services, including IT Compliance Services, Risk Assessment, IT Audit, Security Assessment and Audit, ISO 27001 Consulting and Certification, GDPR Compliance Services, Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), Penetration test, Ethical Hacking, Vulnerabilities scan, IT Consulting, Data Privacy Consulting, Data Protection Services, Information Security Consulting, Cyber Security Consulting, Network Security Audit, Security Awareness Training.\/><\/a> \r\n<br><br> \r\n<p><a href=https:\/\/itsec.vip>www.ITSec.vip<\/a> <br> <br> \r\n<p><a href=https:\/\/sraa.com.hk>www.Sraa.com.hk<\/a> <br> <br> \r\n<p><a href=https:\/\/itsec.hk>www.ITSec.hk<\/a> <br> <br> \r\n<p><a href=https:\/\/penetrationtest.hk>www.Penetrationtest.hk<\/a> <br> <br> \r\n<p><a href=https:\/\/itseceu.uk>www.ITSeceu.uk<\/a> <br> <br> \r\nSecure Your Computers from Cyber Threats and mitigate risks with professional services to defend Hackers. <br><br>\r\nITSec provide IT Security and Compliance Services, including IT Compliance Services, Risk Assessment, IT Audit, Security Assessment and Audit, ISO 27001 Consulting and Certification, GDPR Compliance Services, Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), Penetration test, Ethical Hacking, Vulnerabilities scan, IT Consulting, Data Privacy Consulting, Data Protection Services, Information Security Consulting, Cyber Security Consulting, Network Security Audit, Security Awareness Training. \r\n<br><br>Contact us right away. <br><br>Email (Prefer using email to contact us): <br>SalesExecutive@ITSec.vip<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Cooper Flagg&#8217;s official visit to UConn over the weekend, he and Donovan Clingan made a touching tribute to their mothers who played together at Maine. 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