It wasn’t the kind of season they envisioned. Kath van Bennekom and Nevaeh Parkinson started their college basketball careers at the strangest of times – the pandemic year of 2020-21. The University of New Mexico women’s basketball freshmen knew it would be a year of adjustments, but this was one for the ages. Consider: ................................................................ n Van Bennekom, who grew up in the Netherlands, signed with New Mexico sight unseen. The 5-foot-9 guard first set foot in Albuquerque last August and immediately began a life defined by coronavirus protocols: online classes, isolation and eventually five-person pod workouts at the Davalos Center.