More guard help is on the way for the ASU women’s basketball team.

Coach Charli Turner Thorne added two more perimeter players to the Sun Devils’ 2009 signing class Friday to help plug numerous holes at the guard position for next season.

Sabrina McKinney will come to ASU from Bowie High School in Arlington, Texas, where she is expected to have an impact on both ends of the floor for the Sun Devils. She is the two-time District 4A-5A Defensive Player of the Year and ranks second all-time in school history in assists (455) and steals (289) and seventh in scoring (823 points).

“Sabrina McKinney is a tough and very skilled point guard who has led her team on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor,” Turner Thorne said, according to ASU media relations. “While she is an adept scorer and stand-out defender, I am especially impressed with her precision passing.”

Joining McKinney will be junior college transfer Tenaya Watson, who was a two-time NJCAA Division I All-American at Central Arizona College. She averaged 13.8 points, 5.4 assists and 3.9 steals per game during her sophomore season and led her team to a perfect 35-0 record and the NJCAA championship.

“Tenaya Watson will be a major impact player for us,” Turner Thorne said. “She was arguably the best junior college guard in the country at the end of the 2008-09 season. She can play all three guard positions and is a strong, savvy, hardworking player.”

ASU loses three guards from its 2008-09 squad in Briann January, Kate Engelbrecht and Nia Fanaika and will also be without Dymond Simon and incoming junior college transfer Markisha Patterson next season because of knee injuries. The availability of senior Jazlyn Davis, who missed most of the 2008-09 season because of academic ineligibility, is also in question for next year.

Guards returning for the Sun Devils next season include seniors Danielle Orsillo and Gabby Fage and sophomores Alex Earl and Kimberly Brandon.

Redshirt freshman Haley Parsons and incoming freshman Deja Mann will each make their ASU debut on the perimeter next year.