high-IQ, high-character forward whose game was derailed by injury
Bridgette Dougherty entered Army West Point as a 6-1 forward with a strong prep résumé, including 1,081 career high school points, 15.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per game as a senior, and all-state honors. Her college sample is tiny—she played in four games as a freshman in 2013-14 and missed the entire 2014-15 season because of injury—so the real story is projection, not box-score volume. The differentiator here is toughness and intangibles: Army’s own coverage noted her as the player most likely to become a general, which fits a disciplined, team-first, high-character fit.
