[Sly Fox]

From the NYT ...

Growing Cheers for the Home-Schooled Team



By JOE DRAPE
Published: March 16, 2008

OKLAHOMA CITY — Taber Spani, one of the best high school girls basketball players in the nation, holds hands with two opponents as a coach reads a Bible verse. It is the way each game in the National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championships begins.

This is more than a postseason tournament for the 300 boys and girls teams from 19 states that have competed here over the past six days. As the stands packed with parents and the baselines overrun by small children attest, this is also a jamboree to celebrate faith and family.

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When the field for the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament is selected Monday, there will be plenty more evidence that standout players can be plucked from a prayer circle as well as from a playground. Rachel McLeod of Liberty University, Corrie Hester of Oral Roberts and Shalin Spani of Kansas State, Taber’s older sister, all played in the national home-school tournament.

Taber Spani, however, is the movement’s most celebrated player. Two coaching giants in women’s college basketball, Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma and Tennessee’s Pat Summitt, who between them have won 12 national titles, are pursuing her.

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[matshark]

Well maybe we can land her here at Liberty. How nice would that be?

After all, LU IS hosting a home school tourney in LaHaye over the break, AND considering all the home-schoolers that come here, its not exactly a hostile environment...lol