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Returning to the game

By Andrew Giermak | Suffolk News-Herald
Published Wednesday, May 12, 2010



Always play hard because you never know who’s watching. It’s a cliché about sports and specifically when it comes to scouting and recruiting.

Kaylyn Chatman’s path to a basketball scholarship at Livingstone College proves there’s a lot of truth in that saying, even if a coach is watching you on tape, and even if some good fortune plays a role.

Near the end of her freshman year at Liberty University, where she was a manager for the Lady Flames basketball squad, Chatman started being recruited by college basketball coaches even though she didn’t know it.

“All of this was kind of unexpected,” Chatman, a Lakeland ’09 grad and Lady Cavalier point guard. A chance to play at Div. III Christopher Newport was the only offer she received as a senior. Instead, Chatman choose to go to Liberty and start on a nursing degree.

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